Name: Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script)
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Author: Kaufman, Charlie ; McKee, Robert
ISBN: 9781557045119

portada Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert McKee

Charlie Kaufman

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

1557045119

ISBN13

9781557045119

Synopsis "Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script) "

One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief, writes himself and his twin brother (also played by Cage) into the movie.In the foreword, written exclusively for this Newmarket edition, Orlean reveals her own struggle to tell the story of the orchid, and her delight that "strangely, marvelously, hilariously, Kaufman's screenplay has ended up not being a literal Adaptation of my book, but a spiritual one."In a fascinating interview, Kaufman and Jonze take readers behind the scenes of Adaptation and their other films to speak about how they collaborate, where truth and fiction diverge, the challenges of balancing various storylines, why they do not like to comment on the meaning of their work, and Kaufman's approach to writing: "I try to write in the midst of confusion and be strong enough to stay there, rather than swim to the shore of some kind of conclusion."Finally, screenwriting guru Robert McKee's commentary attempts to analyze Kaufman's work, identifying many of his themes including "that grand twentieth-century preoccupation with the Self."In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script series format, the book includes the complete screenplay, Orlean's foreword, the interview with Kaufman and Jonze, McKee's critical commentary, 24 black-and-white stills, and cast and crew credits.

Robert McKee

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Born in Detroit in 1941. Studied English Literature at the University of Michigan and earned a PhD in Performing Arts. Was a resident artist at the British National Theatre and an actor and director in Broadway plays. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began writing scripts and working for United Artists and NBC as a script reviewer. In 1983, with a Fulbright scholarship, he started a seminar on scriptwriting at the University of Southern California, the starting point of a teaching career that would take him around the world: from Geoffrey Rush to David Bowie, including William Goldman, Julia Roberts, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Campion, a large number of personalities have attended his seminars. He continues to be a consultant for major film and television producers such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, and MTV, and even for companies like Microsoft and organizations like NASA. In 1999 his book The Screenplay. Story (1997), a worldwide success published in this same collection, won the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Best Book on Moving Images in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of The Dialogue (2016) and The Character (2022), both published in this collection. A popular icon, he has been featured in the film The Orchid Thief (2002) and in an episode of The Simpsons.

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