Directed by Spike Jonze, the 2002 made US film stars Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. The plot, where the plot is not sequential, goes back and forth in time, begins with a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman, who wrote the New Yorker magazine writer Susan Orlean’s screenplay for the film.
In the film we learn about Charlie’s story writing adventure as well as his book on orchids. And finally, screenwriter Charlie, his twin brother Donald, the author of the book, Susan, and the crazy plant scientist John Laroche, who inspired the woman to write the book, cross paths and things start to take an unexpected turn.
Charlie Kaufman is having trouble focusing on the script. He doesn’t want to do anything ordinary and just wants to write a screenplay about flowers while remaining true to the original. The biggest obstacle is him. He’s confused about himself. The film first welcomes us with Kaufman’s inner voice.
“Is there an original thought in my head? In my bald head. Maybe if I was happier, my hair wouldn’t fall out. I have to go see the doctor and have my leg examined. The dentist called again. I could be a lot happier if I stopped putting off my teeth. All I do is raise my big ass. I’d be happier if my ass wasn’t big. I wouldn’t hang my shirts to hide my ass. Who am I kidding, big ass!
I have to start running again. Maybe rock climbing? I have to reverse my life. What should I do? I must be in love. I can speak Chinese. I’m a scriptwriter who speaks Chinese and plays oboe. I need a short haircut. I have to stop fooling myself and people like I have a lot of hair. How pathetic. Be real, trust yourself. Isn’t that what women do? I just feel ridiculous because I exist. I need help with this. But I’il still be ugly. Nothing can change that. ”
There’s a guest at Charlie’s house. His twin brother, Donald Kaufman. Donald and Charlie are almost identical in appearance, but unlike Donald’s twin brother, he is always happy, curious, enthusiastic and energetic as a small child. Donald is eager to be a screenwriter and writes a seminar about it. But Donald, who knows little about films, is unlikely to write a screenplay.
We see Charlie alone at a party with a woman. Looks like he likes this woman. She’s trying to encourage her on the script. One day they go to listen to the cello concerto and on the way back, Charlie takes her home. Amelia takes a step to invite her home, but Charlie says she has to go home, that the script is going bad, that she has things to do. As Amelia got out of the car and walked to her house, Charlie said, içinden Why didn’t I go home, I’m like a chicken! I’m a jerk! I should’ve kissed her. I gotta go knock on her door and kiss her. That would be romantic. A moment to tell our children in the future. I’ll do it right now. ” Then he goes on.
Susan Orlean is a writer for The New Yorker. A couple of years ago, he was reading the news about a man who was caught collecting orchids that were found difficult in the newspaper with the red-skinned indigenous people, and he wrote an article about the magazine he worked for. The text is appreciated and he proposes to make the book both a book and a film. However, his relationship with orchid collector John Laroch gradually begins to take on an unimaginable dimension.
Despite Laroch’s long skinny body, lack of anterior upper teeth, white white van and strange obsessions, Susan admits her knowledge of plants and her passion for the countless works she has begun throughout her life. And of course the alet ghost orchid ”. When they first met, the ghost orchid that Laroch spoke of, claiming to be the only person in the world with the knowledge to raise it Sus Susan will believe in the ghost orchid, just as the promises that people give to each other are hard to keep and beautiful to believe. In an exhibition, what Laronch describes as a white orchid increases Susan’s admiration.
“What’s great is that every flower has a special relationship with the pollinating insect. Because some orchids resemble a beetle that pollinates it. This attracts the beetle to that flower. Flower is his pair, soul mate. She doesn’t want anything more than making love to her. The insect flies and puts on another soul mate, making love to her, where it pollens her. Neither flowers nor insects understand the importance of just making love. But they simply do what they are designed to do, and something spectacular happens. So they show us how to live, seeing that the only barometer you have is your heart.
In the evening after the exhibition, Susan and her husband and a couple of friends drink their wine gathered around the table in their house and laugh and talk about Laroch. Susan willingly goes to the bathroom and pauses there. He leans his head back and thinks. Because he realized that the thoughts that circulated in his mind and the sentences coming out of his lips began to contradict each other. When he comes back to the hall, he no longer hears it, but speaks with his mind.
Dim I wish I could want something as much as people want these plants. But, it’s not my construction. I think I have a repressed passion. I want to know what it feels like to be passionate about anything. Can a person be lucky enough to see a ghost orchid? If the ghost orchid is really a ghost, it must be something magical that allows people to walk for miles for years without getting tired of it. I have no special interest in them. I want to see this thing. The flower that drives people in a unique and powerful way…”
Susan will start writing the book, but tells Laroch that she still hasn’t seen a ghost orchid and wants to see it. One day they meet and go to the swamp where the van and orchids are. Laroch says biliy I know this swamp like the back of my hand ”and they start a search in the swamp for hours. Laroch is angry because he has to show him a ghost orchid. Finally, Susan notices the minibus they have left on the roadside among the reeds and realizes that they have been turning around in the same place for hours.
“Life is full of things just like ghost orchids harika It’s great to imagine and easy to fall in love with. But it’s a little dizzying, short-lived and inaccessible. ”
Donald has finished his script and asks Charlie to show his script to his publisher. The “thriller senaryo scenario with strange characters and events is surprisingly appreciated.
For Charlie, everything is getting worse. For a scenario he could not focus on, publishers began to squeeze. He goes to the scriptwriter’s seminar proposed by his twin brother and talks to this man about his script at the end of the seminar. He tells him about the characters in the book and, by reading the end of the book, tells Susan in his film that he has never seen the ghost orchid and wants to tell him about his frustration. Charlie’s advice actually gives us a hint about the final of this film we’re watching, “Your characters must change. And change must come from them. Do this, it’il be fine.”
Charlie ends most of his screenplay with advice and goes to New York to meet Susan Orlean. But first he wants to show the screenplay to his brother and invites him to New York. Their hotel is opposite the New Yorker magazine building and they watch Susan work one night in her office. Susan gets a phone call and Susan buys tickets to Miami the next day. The Kaufman brothers who watch over it do not do the same.
Susan actually lied in her book. It is not true that the story did not end with the disappointment in the swamp and that it did not change for the rest of his life. On the evening of the day in the swamp, Laroche sends a package to Susan’s hotel. It contains drugs made from orchids. When Laroche called to ask if the package had arrived, Susan had already flown. Susan has brought Laroche into her life with this substance, which makes everything more impressive and bright.
While the Kaufman brothers are spying on her, Laroche is Susan’s phone call. Charlie’s car is behind the white van waiting for Susan in Miami the next day. Unfortunately, this secret surveillance and surveillance does not result. The next day Donald will fly through the windshield of the car and stick to the road face to face, while Laroche is the victim of an alligator (Spike Jonze may have consulted Tarantino about the film’s finale). Susan Orlean, in his arms, Laroche’s dead body, crying: I want to live my life from the beginning. I want to be a baby again. I want to be renewed. Being a new person…”
Life is as variable as flashing stars. Our family, our friends, our loves, our works, our beloved ones and those who do not like everything is blinking. People dream, have things, then lose. We are building life like a building and demolishing it again. Nothing and no one is constant and constant, people entering and leaving our lives, beginnings, endings, frustrations … There is no constant happiness, no constant sorrow. The film reflects this fact very well. Donald and Laroche are dead, we don’t know what happened to Susan. Even if Charlie Kaufman finished the script and then went out with the girl he liked. But as a result life will be preparing something new for them.
Adaptation (2002)
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Chris Cooper, Gary Farmer, Gregory Itzin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Curtis Hanson
Screenplay by: Charlie Kaufman, Susan Orlean
Production Design by: K.K. Barrett
Cinematography by: Lance Acord
Film Editing: Eric Zumbrunnen.
Costume Design by: Ann Roth, Casey Storm
Art Direction by: Peter Andrus
Makeup Department: Lynn Barber, Jerry Constantine, Joseph Coscia
Music by: Lou Barlow
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexuality, some drug use and violent images.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: December 6, 2002
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