“I renounce fish.”
Posted by robyngiannini on March 1st, 2007
The title of this blog is one of my favorite quotes from the movie “Adaptation.” I believe this movie almost directly addresses everything Group one was presenting on Monday on, hey, presto, adaptation. If you havn’t seen this movie, rent it immediately. It’s directed by Spike Jonze and is based on the book by Susan Orlean The Orchid Thiefand the screenplay by Charlie and Donald Kaufman. Not only is her book adapted into a screen play, then the screen play is adapted into a movie–and a rather bizarre movie at that because the entire movie is about Charlie Kaufman trying to adapt the book into a screenplay. Talk about trying to transcend forms of text!
There is also a quote in the movie from this lecture by a famous playwright that Charlie attends where he says ”
…and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That’s flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. ”
Which sort of sucks for Charlie because he whole play is based on a voice overs, and the whole movie about the play that he is trying to write is a voice over.
If you’ve watched the movie this post probably makes sense. If you havn’t, stop being confused and watch the movie so it will make sense to you too.