Orchid Thief Movie Analysis

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The screenplay of film is based on the plot of the novel the Orchid Thief. Charlie Kaufman makes a creative approach on how to write a film by making an attempt of trying to adapt a book that seemed impossible to adapt, he defines adaptation as staying true and maintaining the roots to the source material. He is in fact the protagonist of the film and he intertwines reality with fiction to bring a meta-artistic interplay to life, in a very postmodern narrative. Thus, the narrative structure of the film is richly layered. The film centers around a brilliant screenwriter struggling with inner demons, furthermore, he has to adapt on a way to deal with social handicaps that are intimidating him. It is a film inspired by a book that explores botany

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