Adapting the adapted adaptation: Essay on “Adaptation.” (2002)

Adapting the adapted adaptation

Chris Cooper and his dear flowers in Jonze's "Adaptation" (2002)

It’s tough to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. You ask Charlie Kaufman. This brilliant and brilliantly original mind is fighting against the Hollywood screenwriting ‘rules’ ever since he became part of the most well-known synonym for global cinema. A few years ago, he finally came to terms with his frustrations by writing the screenplay of Adaptation., directed by Spike Jonze, starring among others Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. A story about a screenwriter, who’s writing a script about writing the script of a book that a novelist wrote about someone… How confusing this may seem, it is just the tip of the iceberg.