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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 414497" data-attributes="member: 8">ADAPTATION (2002)[ATTACH=full]54995[/ATTACH]I had never heard of this film before but I was intrigued by the short description of a daft plot, and since the image showed Nicolas Cage and Tilda Swinton I assumed it would be intentionally daft. Maybe something like Being John Malkovich.Then the film starts on the set of&nbsp; Being John Malkovich and it turns out that this film is about the writer of&nbsp;&nbsp; Being John Malkovich who is trying to write a screenplay based on a novel about Orchids, written by Susan Orlean who is really the co-writer of Adaptation.It&#039;s such a meta Russian doll thing I feel my head is still spinning. Oh, and it&#039;s not about Tilda Swinton it&#039;s about Meryl Streep.I think it&#039;s a fantastic and delirious story about not being a story constructed in such way that it becomes a story anyway. But who writes what?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 414497, member: 8"] ADAPTATION (2002) [ATTACH type="full"]54995[/ATTACH] I had never heard of this film before but I was intrigued by the short description of a daft plot, and since the image showed Nicolas Cage and Tilda Swinton I assumed it would be intentionally daft. Maybe something like Being John Malkovich. Then the film starts [I]on the set of [/I] Being John Malkovich and it turns out that this film is[I] about the writer of[/I] Being John Malkovich who is trying to write a screenplay based on a novel about Orchids, written by Susan Orlean who is really the co-writer of Adaptation. It's such a meta Russian doll thing I feel my head is still spinning. Oh, and it's not about Tilda Swinton it's about Meryl Streep. I think it's a fantastic and delirious story about not being a story constructed in such way that it becomes a story anyway. But who writes what? [/QUOTE]

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