“I DON’T WANT to ruin it by making it a Hollywood thing,” Nicolas Cage says at the beginning of Adaptation. (2002). Cage, playing a fictionalized version of the film’s screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, has been hired to adapt Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Between self-deprecating voice-overs, he tells a representative from Columbia Pictures he doesn’t want […]
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