Adaptation - Robert Mckee vs Charlie Kaufman scene

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Self-loathing screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. He struggles with anxiety, social phobia, depression, and low self-esteem. His twin brother, Donald, has moved into his house and is freeloading there. Donald decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie and attends seminars by screenwriting guru Robert Mckee

Adaptation. (2002)
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Written by: Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman (screenplay)

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@elstcman5
@elstcman5 Жыл бұрын
That "I need more." is sublime.
@adammiller6193
@adammiller6193 2 жыл бұрын
Brian Cox here is just phenomenal
@KA-gy3lz
@KA-gy3lz 2 жыл бұрын
He was perfect in this movie
@KevinMuller5
@KevinMuller5 Жыл бұрын
Should've been nominated
@theathlete771
@theathlete771 Жыл бұрын
As Mckee stated in an interview, he was involved in the movie production at some point and was the one who insisted on casting Cox.
@hvitekristesdod
@hvitekristesdod 11 ай бұрын
Guy needs an Oscar at some point. Tremendous actor
@filmmaker610
@filmmaker610 3 жыл бұрын
A lovely movie about screenwriting and the deconstruction of screenwriting.
@Rocknrollrocker
@Rocknrollrocker 5 ай бұрын
It's about life, man. Haha. Writers of course love writing about writers but he made this so relatable on so many levels.
@WannaKnowMyName
@WannaKnowMyName 5 ай бұрын
“Don’t you dare bring a deus ex machina”. With this, McKee gives Kauffman the solution for his script. But McKee himself, giving the solution, is the deus ex machina for the film.
@abhirajranjan8070
@abhirajranjan8070 3 жыл бұрын
Watching this while procrastinating and McKee’s Story lies in front of me
@theexpresidents
@theexpresidents 3 жыл бұрын
_Story_ is quite possibly the only book on writing--besides some of Mamet's essays--that I couldn't read. There are so many better writing books out there, maybe not as informative, but well-written, leagues above McKee.
@alexanderthegreat1270
@alexanderthegreat1270 Жыл бұрын
@@theexpresidents Mainly cause McKee had one major success, Trophy, and has sat on that as his example of how to write any movie ever for the rest of time.
@j.goebbels2134
@j.goebbels2134 Жыл бұрын
Did you turn to the back and thumb through all the movies that McKee got made?
@memento81
@memento81 Жыл бұрын
@@j.goebbels2134 How many children does a teacher need to have raised to be a good teacher?
@j.goebbels2134
@j.goebbels2134 Жыл бұрын
@@memento81 I at least hope they went to school.
@DcIxvi
@DcIxvi 7 ай бұрын
ironic, adaptation might be one of the finest screenplays ever written when it all comes down to it
@evilwizardboy09
@evilwizardboy09 3 ай бұрын
This shot of Charlie in the crowd is one of my favorites ever
@laurenc5333
@laurenc5333 Жыл бұрын
People don’t seem to get that the film is satirising Mckee’s screenplay fomula.
@biggusdickus1689
@biggusdickus1689 Жыл бұрын
If anything I think it's showing how important those principles really are.
@Gungan1566
@Gungan1566 10 ай бұрын
Mckee got Kaufman to rewrite the final act. Kaufman wrote the Mckee character and asked if they could put him in it, Mckee read the script and only agreed if he could make suggestions and meet with Spike and Kaufman. He also didn't like the 3rd act and gave them notes for a re-write.
@CurlyJefferson482
@CurlyJefferson482 2 ай бұрын
This is his redemption scene:)
@federicoimola1771
@federicoimola1771 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite movies ✨
@theexpresidents
@theexpresidents 3 жыл бұрын
Cool, I've been waiting for this. _Adapation_ is one of the first screenplays I ever bought. I wish Kaufman had more of an output, though....
@ODjangoo
@ODjangoo 3 жыл бұрын
"it's quality not quantity, man" -slater
@omegatron44
@omegatron44 Жыл бұрын
have you read antkind? It's a big output
@MegaPunkslayer
@MegaPunkslayer Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t recommend Antkind enough, amazing book. I sincerely doubt I’ll ever read a funnier novel in my entire life, I’m not exaggerating when I say something on just about every page made me laugh out loud. And my copy is 700 pages long!!
@SirClawedfrog
@SirClawedfrog Жыл бұрын
Most laughs I've ever gotten out of a novel. Parts of it hit me in really right ways. It satisfied a craving I didn't even know I had.
@j.goebbels2134
@j.goebbels2134 Жыл бұрын
I'm a huge CK fan and this thread finally convinced me to check out Antkind (I'd rather watch movies than read novels but CK ain't making many of the former).
@imfa-cinema257
@imfa-cinema257 7 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I pushed for Charlie's screenplay to be made by the studio. They were almost not going to make the film, but luckily I helped sell it by saying the ending was really, really cool.
@elichilton7031
@elichilton7031 3 жыл бұрын
A great sequence in a great movie.
@omwowcom
@omwowcom Жыл бұрын
Great scene, thanks for sharing!
@ScullyPopASMR
@ScullyPopASMR 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool, bro 🔥
@rendroaryo5387
@rendroaryo5387 3 жыл бұрын
Great!
@j.goebbels2134
@j.goebbels2134 Жыл бұрын
I need more.
@Zehahahaa
@Zehahahaa 3 жыл бұрын
Such a good movie 🍿
@TheNepaliDiscourse
@TheNepaliDiscourse 19 күн бұрын
Mckee is so true ❤ he is so real
@goblinslayer7096
@goblinslayer7096 10 ай бұрын
When he talks about the last act, he isn't talking about movies anymore.
@danield4547
@danield4547 Жыл бұрын
What a goddamn actor
@phanikrishna7967
@phanikrishna7967 3 жыл бұрын
Please make a video on Martin mcdonagh
@lordranbirfan815
@lordranbirfan815 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why but, this movie is so good. I did not like the flower part, but the acting, the mood of the film was very Pleasant
@whatdothlife4660
@whatdothlife4660 10 ай бұрын
FlOwEr BaD
@davusito
@davusito 4 ай бұрын
nice
@Usedw0tm8
@Usedw0tm8 Жыл бұрын
...I feel attacked
@NickBigsmoke
@NickBigsmoke 8 ай бұрын
ok thanks
@whatdothlife4660
@whatdothlife4660 10 ай бұрын
Cage looks absolutely haggard here. It's my favorite role of his.
@dwaiting883
@dwaiting883 2 ай бұрын
He is so believable as the two different twins that it was only after a few viewings that I started to ask how they did FX, like him throwing the telephone book to himself. I was so wrapped in the story of these two brothers. Cage can seem like an odd, over-acting actor to me plenty of time, but then he has roles he is so powerful and amazing in. He should have won an oscar for this film.
@MGBillionaire
@MGBillionaire 3 жыл бұрын
only screenwriters get why this scene is so great
@OutstandingScreenplays
@OutstandingScreenplays 3 жыл бұрын
✅🙌💟💯
@Shirish-1998
@Shirish-1998 3 жыл бұрын
@@OutstandingScreenplays which film it is?
@wahtalelz6131
@wahtalelz6131 2 жыл бұрын
@@Shirish-1998 Adaptation
@khathide22nd
@khathide22nd Жыл бұрын
​@@wahtalelz6131 Adaptation of what? I'm just messing with you🤣🤣🤣
@exittored
@exittored 3 жыл бұрын
Isn't Adaptation basically saying McKee is full of BS? and that in then end, you just need to write for yourself and not worry about what the audience or Critics may think of it.
@PauseFilms
@PauseFilms 3 жыл бұрын
Well he actually put a climax in the film and a character arch. Lol. Also McKee has said You can write whatever you want but don’t expect anyone else to want to read or make it. There’s exceptions to every rule of course.
@exittored
@exittored 3 жыл бұрын
@@PauseFilms Thats the whole point of the film though and what Charlie Kaufman was saying in Adaptation, that by listening to False prophets like McKee you will never be true to yourself as an Artst. Kaufman himself attended some McKee classes and said they were useful up to a point but then he realised he had to stay true to his work and went back to writing what he wanted, not what others advised him to do.
@PauseFilms
@PauseFilms 3 жыл бұрын
@@exittored Those are good points. I don't think he's a false prophet though. I love movies/shows that use narration in a clever way. (Mr.robot, fight club and so on) I think that you can and should break the rule if you want to tell your story, but you should know what the rules are.
@SajalKr
@SajalKr 3 жыл бұрын
No
@dollyriva8297
@dollyriva8297 2 жыл бұрын
No … that’s not what these scenes are about. They are about the struggle anyone has about trying to being different, or original … and not listening to teachers. In the end … Adaptation follows the flow of a typical archplot/multiplot film. Kaufman and McKee present that you can follow whatever you wish ….. but doesn’t mean you’ll get a paid movie out of it.
@DanielS2001
@DanielS2001 Жыл бұрын
The sad thing is that nowadays, there are more movies, TV shows, comic books and novels that don’t have characters who struggle and don’t have anything that happens to them, and it shows their creators need to read the real McKee’s book, or at least sit in on his seminar.
@memento81
@memento81 Жыл бұрын
@The Eye Creature you clearly haven't read the book. Story is way different than the paint-by-numbers screenwriting guides of Syd Field and the likes. It is one of the few useful ones because it specificly doesn't push writers toward a generic normative screenplay with a dogmatic approach to act structure and tensionbuilding.
@kws2534
@kws2534 Жыл бұрын
What are the fuck are you even talking about?
@IAEMThatIAEM
@IAEMThatIAEM 8 ай бұрын
nick cage KILLED introvert kaufman role. peopme dont like him. damn he was Oscar on this
@bibhuranjandutta470
@bibhuranjandutta470 3 жыл бұрын
1st viewer
@knurdyob
@knurdyob Жыл бұрын
Some people may disagree with me on this but I never took this character of Robert Mckee seriously, either in the movie or in real life. What he writes about are things we're all already aware of by the time we're 14, it's common sense. He's kind of a scammer, who sells this dream while pointing out obvious things about screenwriting. It's not that he's wrong necessarily, but he's very shallow in how he perceives the art of cinema, and always ends up circling around certain stereotypes, like saying "Casablanca is one of the finest scripts ever written". Which is exactly the sort of thing that someone who only understands cinema on a shallow level would say. It pisses me off how he's a bully to this poor guy who is 100% right in how he sees things as well. Meanwhile despite being a bully, Mckee himself isn't a successfull screenwriter, one of the telltale signs of a "scammer". Much like the fake gurus we find all over the internet these days saying they can make millions in a few hours, then why would they need to be selling courses if they can make that much money? Why would Mckee be writing about writing if he knows so much about it, why not do the writing himself? I love this film so much because it shows this struggling writer caving in on his own insecurities, and being manipulated by the world around him, into going against what he really believes in artistically, which may give someone a temporary feeling of relief, but will undoubtely not satisfy him artistically in the long run. Not that many films can portray this kind of dilemma as well as this one.
@samuelalexander1014
@samuelalexander1014 11 ай бұрын
Agreed, but I also think there's something to what he says about a final act changing a film. There is a lot of annoying truth in what McKee says, which is difficult for 'experimental' amateur screenwriters to handle, let alone an absolute intuitive screenwriting genius like Kaufman. If anyone knows how to transcend the art form it's Kaufman, but even with this film he needed grounding. McKee did that for him.
@Gungan1566
@Gungan1566 10 ай бұрын
It's definitely not common sense. Even though we may know these story things unconsciously, it is a whole different task of putting the words on paper. Also Robert Mckee gave Kaufman notes to re-write the third act, and met with the director and Kaufman for notes in general.
@lucalapaglia3941
@lucalapaglia3941 Жыл бұрын
Well, I must say McKee is completely wrong
@xiolared123
@xiolared123 Жыл бұрын
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. That's why he's McKee and you are?
@macandcheese4L
@macandcheese4L Жыл бұрын
@@xiolared123 name a mckee script that's worth taking seriously? I could name a large sum of films where McKee's point is moot. You should watch Being There, Spirited Away, Back to the Future, Paterson, The Big Lebowski, Ferris Bueller, etc. I could go on. Character's changing is a lot less important than a good story/situation. The greatest misconception in the screenwriting world is that things need to follow a structure, or that there are requirements needed to make a film good. It's all bullshit - it's a crutch that not-so-great filmmakers need to give them a chance at making something decent. What a film needs to be good is a good director, captivating performers, a vision, pacing. Everything else is is meh.
@solidbhatt
@solidbhatt Жыл бұрын
​@@macandcheese4Lno, structure works and for hundreds of years it kept working, especially for a beginner screenwriter you cant just ignore that part, a good structure is what makes a good movie
@macandcheese4L
@macandcheese4L Жыл бұрын
@@solidbhatt you're missing the point. this guy is saying that characters need to change. or suggesting that there is "a structure" . It's not in any way true. There is no absolute truth the way he is suggesting there is. Not only because there are a myriad of structureless films that have inspired generations of filmmakers, but also because structure can be innovative. There is no one way to go about things. We could be here for hours talking about films who did the opposite of what he is suggesting a film must do. We aren't talking about structure in general - we are talking about the clip above
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