The Orchid Thief

adaptation cannot simply be a story about flowers with no change or conflict because it won’t, in a metaphorical sense, survive. Charlie’s change is a comment on the necessity of change in the adaptation process. In order to successfully adapt The Orchid Thief Charlie must introduce the change that real people experience. The trip to Florida clarifies that a Hollywood adaptation must have change and conflict because life

I was extremely lucky to be placed in a first-year seminar that had such a unique topic with great individuals to share the class with. Throughout the last few months, I have gained friendships and knowledge within the course, Plants and Human Affairs. Within this course, I have learned and extended my understandings on the interactions between humans and plants. Throughout the semester, the class has read a variety of books, all relating to plants and people interaction. We have also been exposed

Cinderella’ in terms of authority, character, story and thesis. To have authority signifies whether you believe the story and are able to immerse yourself into the world the writer’s created for you and simply have faith that the words are true. ‘The Orchid Thief’ was originally supposed to be an article for the newspaper, but Orleans saw the potential it had and, therefore, created a creative non-fiction text. As someone with a journalistic background, the readers would trust

"Adaptation" Directed by: Spike Jonze 1) Our film starts with a monologue. The voice is that of Charlie Kaufman, a screen writer with a tendency to take every aspect of his own life into a negative, pessimistic mindset and rationalization. Set to begin in Hollywood, California just after the release of "Being John Malkovich". (A film Charlie had previously adapted into a screen

played by the same actor, Nicolas Cage. who plays Charlie). (By the way, both real-life Charlie and fictitious Donald appear in the credits for the film.) In the course of the film, the writer who wrote the article comes to see the real-life orchid thief. As the plot develops, the writers of the film become characters in the (fictional) film that they are writing and I am watching. Adaptation, writes its New York Times reviewer, A. O. Scott, "is . . . a movie about its own nonexistence." Scott