watched this last nite with friends.
great flik. Not from the usual hollywood crapmachine. Consequently, it did not do well as the boxoffice. Which of course, to anyone who appreciates intelligent films, doesn't mean a damn thing. In fact that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it.
This film is something you remember and talk about for quite a while. If you have the mental wherewithall. Nic Cage plays two roles; twin brothers and I have never seen such a good job of editing, blocking, composition and effects that made this visual (of an actor playing two roles within one scene) as convincing as I saw last night. Fully taken in to the seeming reality that you are watching two distinct people. Far cry from what we saw with, for example; Keaton in "Mulitplicity".
Streep and Chris Cooper round out the story which has soooo many layers and twists and turns, you will want to watch the dvd once a month for a year.
OK, so the story goes: Kaufman, a screenwriter, sets himself up with the task of turning a facinating book, name of The Orchid Thief, into something the studios can turn into celluloid. . He can't seem to get a working screenplay to the studio to save his life. He then decides to learn more of the author of the book and her subject; renegade, unconventional rare orchid hunter Larouche. (Cooper).
He does so and unearths mounds of wild and crazy sh!t in the process. You will either be shaking your head in amazement and going "wow... gawd... amazing"..
or confused outta yer lil peabrain and run to the nearest copy of spiderman.
The script for this flik was created by a dude named Kaufman who was asked to turn a book by Sue Orlean, (titled The Orchid Thief) into a script. He had the damnedest time with it and in the process, documented his compounding frustrations and decided to write a screenplay on his adventures. Thus... yes. We are witness to... well, what actually happened, to a large degree. And it's a roller coaster ride. And if you think by that I mean dinosaurs and car crashes rivet you, please simply rent the cartoons of the day that are passing as major motion picture entertainment, and slowly step away from the real films, and no one gets hurt.
great flik. Not from the usual hollywood crapmachine. Consequently, it did not do well as the boxoffice. Which of course, to anyone who appreciates intelligent films, doesn't mean a damn thing. In fact that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it.
This film is something you remember and talk about for quite a while. If you have the mental wherewithall. Nic Cage plays two roles; twin brothers and I have never seen such a good job of editing, blocking, composition and effects that made this visual (of an actor playing two roles within one scene) as convincing as I saw last night. Fully taken in to the seeming reality that you are watching two distinct people. Far cry from what we saw with, for example; Keaton in "Mulitplicity".
Streep and Chris Cooper round out the story which has soooo many layers and twists and turns, you will want to watch the dvd once a month for a year.
OK, so the story goes: Kaufman, a screenwriter, sets himself up with the task of turning a facinating book, name of The Orchid Thief, into something the studios can turn into celluloid. . He can't seem to get a working screenplay to the studio to save his life. He then decides to learn more of the author of the book and her subject; renegade, unconventional rare orchid hunter Larouche. (Cooper).
He does so and unearths mounds of wild and crazy sh!t in the process. You will either be shaking your head in amazement and going "wow... gawd... amazing"..
or confused outta yer lil peabrain and run to the nearest copy of spiderman.
The script for this flik was created by a dude named Kaufman who was asked to turn a book by Sue Orlean, (titled The Orchid Thief) into a script. He had the damnedest time with it and in the process, documented his compounding frustrations and decided to write a screenplay on his adventures. Thus... yes. We are witness to... well, what actually happened, to a large degree. And it's a roller coaster ride. And if you think by that I mean dinosaurs and car crashes rivet you, please simply rent the cartoons of the day that are passing as major motion picture entertainment, and slowly step away from the real films, and no one gets hurt.
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