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Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script)
Robert McKee
Synopsis "Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script)"
One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief, writes himself and his twin brother (also played by Cage) into the movie.In the foreword, written exclusively for this Newmarket edition, Orlean reveals her own struggle to tell the 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 spiritual one."In a fascinating interview, Kaufman and Jonze take readers behind the scenes of Adaptation and their other films to speak about how they collaborate, where truth and fiction diverge, the challenges of balancing various storylines, why they do not like to comment on the meaning of their work, and Kaufman's approach to writing: "I try to write in the midst of confusion and be strong enough to stay there, rather than swim to the shore of some kind of conclusion."Finally, screenwriting guru Robert McKee's commentary attempts to analyze Kaufman's work, identifying many of his themes including "that grand twentieth-century preoccupation with the Self."In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script series format, the book includes the complete screenplay, Orlean's foreword, the interview with Kaufman and Jonze, McKee's critical commentary, 24 black-and-white stills, and cast and crew credits.
Nació en Detroit en 1941. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Michigan y se doctoró en Artes Escénicas. Fue artista residente del National Theatre británico y actor y director en obras de Broadway. En 1979 se trasladó a Los Ángeles, donde empezó a escribir guiones y a trabajar para la United Artists y la NBC como revisor de guiones. En 1983, con una beca Fulbright, inició un seminario sobre guión en la Universidad del Sur de California, punto de partida de una carrera docente que le llevará por todo el mundo: de Geoffrey Rush a David Bowie, pasando por William Goldman, Julia Roberts, Kirk Douglas y Jane Campion, un gran número de personalidades ha asistido a sus seminarios. Sigue siendo consultor de proyectos para grandes productoras de cine y televisión como 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount y MTV, e incluso para empresas como Microsoft y organismos como la NASA. En 1999 su libro El guión. Story (1997), un éxito en todo el mundo publicado en esta misma colección, ganó en el Reino Unido el Premio de la Fundación Kraszna-Krausz al Mejor Libro sobre Imágenes en Movimiento. Asimismo es autor de El diálogo (2016) y El personaje (2022), ambos publicados en esta colección. Icono popular, ha sido personaje en la película El ladrón de orquídeas (2002) y en un capítulo de Los Simpson.
