Description: ADAPTATION – SIGNED Movie Screenplay +BONUS Bookby Charlie & Donald Kaufman SIGNED by Charlie KaufmanThis pre-owned movie screenplay is inexcellent condition.Bound, with card-stock cover. Nomarkings/rips, all pages clean.This is a 100 page screenplay (notincluding the two front covers).BONUS!: Will Include ADAPTATION: TheShooting Script (Paperback)By Charlie Kaufman & Robert McKeeLike New ConditionOne of the most talkedabout scripts of the year, Adaptation isthe story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, asauthor Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by NicolasCage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief, writes himself and his twinbrother (also played by Cage) into the movie.In the foreword, writtenexclusively for this Newmarket edition, Orlean reveals her own struggle to tellthe 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 spiritualone.”In a fascinatinginterview, Kaufman and Jonze take readers behind the scenes of Adaptation and their other films tospeak about how they collaborate, where truth and fiction diverge, thechallenges of balancing various storylines, why they do not like to comment onthe meaning of their work, and Kaufman's approach to writing: "I try towrite in the midst of confusion and be strong enough to stay there, rather thanswim to the shore of some kind of conclusion."Finally, screenwritingguru Robert McKee's commentary attempts to analyze Kaufman's work, identifyingmany of his themes including "that grand twentieth-century preoccupationwith the Self."Inthe acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script series format, the book includes thecomplete screenplay, Orlean's foreword, the interview with Kaufman and Jonze,McKee's critical commentary, 24 black-and-white stills, and cast and crewcredits.
Price: 36.5 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
End Time: 2024-11-05T21:01:56.000Z
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