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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
“Adaptation,” the most playfully brilliant movie to examine the creative process, comes to The Theatre in Little Washington on Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m.
A few years ago, a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman was given the job of adapting Susan Orlean’s non-fiction book, “The Orchid Thief,” into a motion picture script.
Although Kaufman found the principal character of the book, John Laroche, to have cinematic potential, he was at a loss how to effect the book-to-screenplay transformation. Eventually, he decided to wander off in some very strange directions, writing himself into the script and really only using “The Orchid Thief” as a jumping-off point.
The movie, as it turns out, is about a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman, who is given the job of adapting Susan Orlean’s non-fiction book, “The Orchid Thief,” into a motion picture script.
“Adaptation” stars Nicolas Cage in a dual role as Kaufman and his fictitious brother, Donald. Meryl Streep is Susan Or lean, the writer of “The Orchid Thief;” Chris Cooper is Laroche, Brian Cox is Robert Mckee, a read-life lecturer about the art of screenplay writing; and Tilda Swinton is Vale ie, the one who com
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