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Post by mandate of heaven on Dec 16, 2009 23:26:36 GMT -5
This guy is seriously amazing. Between Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York he is probably my favorite screenwriter. I cried during all three of those films at least once, and they made me think about everything from life and death to the people I love. His writing is so honest and sincere, and something I can really look up to and appreciate as an aspiring writer.
Synecdoche is fucking weird, but incredibly heartbreaking and thought-provoking. I just watched it last night, which is what prompted this thread. Being John Malkovich is pretty rad as well.
Discuss how much you love what this guy does.
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Post by xbeerdrinkerx on Dec 17, 2009 2:41:52 GMT -5
Adaptation is the best screenplay I've ever read. Charlie Kaufman deserves a shot at a Nobel in literature. He's that good.
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Post by mandate of heaven on Dec 17, 2009 13:32:54 GMT -5
What's so great about Adaptation is that it's essentially a screenplay about his inability to write a screenplay. Haha.
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Post by Dan on Dec 17, 2009 14:00:12 GMT -5
I was shot, that's so fucked up.
What's so great about adaptation is the layers of adaptations. It's a movie that's an adaptation of a book which is an adaptation of a man's life. Then the actual plot of the movie is a man making a movie which is an adaptation of a book which is an adaptation of a man's life.
Also, it's funny because everything Nicholas Cage's character does not want his movie to be about i.e. affairs and chases and gun fighting winds up happening in his life. Meanwhile the actual movie we're watching is a non typical Hollywood movie and then all that stuff happens.
It's really great how the word Adaptation means so many things within the scheme of the movie
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Dec 17, 2009 16:31:30 GMT -5
What's so great about Adaptation is that it's essentially a screenplay about his inability to write a screenplay. Haha. ironically, this is the only reason why anyone knows he exists
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Post by rc on Dec 17, 2009 20:14:38 GMT -5
I've yet to see Human Nature or Synecdoche, New York, but everything else he's written is great. Eternal Sunshine is in my top five movies ever, and Adaptation still amazes me with its complex layers. I always forget that he also adapted Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was excellent. Probably my favorite screenwriter over this decade after Darren Aronofsky.
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Post by Ben on Dec 22, 2009 17:46:22 GMT -5
I really wonder if this man has a portal into my head, just because of all the coincidences with his writing and my life, but either way, he's fucking fantastic.
Human Nature, Synecdoche, New York, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine... every single one was fucking perfect.
This guy deserve a Nobel prize just for being so in touch with what it is to be human. Even to such minute degrees that people don't even notice on a daily level that really makes it real. Fucking amazing.
With that stated, I'm pretty sure Eternal Sunshine has taken its place as my favorite movie of all time, just because the character of Joel is me, to a resounding degree. Plenty of friends have said they all see it. (I don't know if that means anything good for me... just makes it nice to observer myself from 'afar'.
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