Adaptation: The perfect adaptation

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

19 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/18/2008

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Film studies

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Summary :

The movie Adaptation.
Clarifying why the questions about adaptation have persisted for so long.
Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 No Country for Old Men.
The most interesting and brilliant feature of the film.
The case of Adaptation.
The Orchid Thief.
Donald versus Charlie dichotomy.
Example of Kaufman's original crisscrossing through diagetic universes.

Abstract

In 2000, The New Yorker magazine writer Susan Orlean published her book, The Orchid Thief, a history of orchids and orchid collectors. The main themes of the work include the history of the passion for plants held by cultures past and present, the perils of harsh habitats such as the Fakahatchee swamp, the natural evolution of life on earth, and the value of a "new" species of orchid, whether it is a kind that already exists but is yet to be found, or a hybrid that could potentially exist but is yet to be bred. Tales and observations are balanced with accounts of her meetings with a contemporary collector and cultivator from Florida named John Laroche, who caught her attention when he was tried by the state of Florida for illegally removing protected floral species from a state reserve. The significance of this man lies both in his character as a wild, obsessive rogue, hunting his fortune by selling rare species of orchids and trying to breed his own completely original kind, and also his extensive knowledge of orchids, which inspires Susan Orlean to research the topic extensively and to become fascinated with the entire culture of orchid lovers herself