Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
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Actor: Brian Cox, Chris Cooper, Gary Farmer, Jim Beaver, Nicolas CageBrand: Sony
Primary Contributor: Nicolas Cage
Primary Contributor: Chris Cooper
Primary Contributor: Streep, Meryl
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
Movie Review: Thinker
Summary: 5 Stars
"Adaptation.", on a superficial level, is a drama-comedy that is self-referential and existent in the vein of literature. At first assessment, one would suspect that Kaufman was not entirely true to the source material, as though he instead warped Orlean's work ("The Orchid Thief")as a footnote to his own. Deeper analysis indicates this couldn't be anymore wrong. "Adaptation." is about passion and about how a lack of it can make a person existentially miserable. I could make a substantial argument that the film is primarily concerned with passion at the expense of all else (which is a whole other level of irony, because isn't passion the pursuit of an end at the expense of all else?). Passion is also the central theme of "The Orchid Thief" and in this way they are bound. Just pay attention when you view this film, watch as Streep's character yearns for passion and syphons it off of the character of John Laroche (who follows his passions readily and without fear), and watch how Kaufman (the character) invests his passion in the character of Susan Orlean until the climax where he is forced to either accept it and the insecurities it is eternally bound to or to accept the bitter defeat of coming up short. Also, see if you can tell where the movie 'really' ends.
This movie is important, innovative, entertaining and meaningful. The acting is superb, the production is spot on. The agony of writing is adequately captured as well. You probably won't enjoy this if you are looking for simplicity and detest the idea of being engaged by a movie.
One of the greatest films ever created.
Summary of Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. These titles have been produced by a team of Sony Pictures Digital Studios video, sound and mastering engineers and comes housed in a special package complete with a 4 page booklet that contains technical information on the Superbit process. By reallocating space on the disc normally used for value-added content, Superbit DVDs can be encoded at double their normal bit rate while maintaining full compatibility with the DVD video format.Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created Being John Malkovich. Nicolas Cage returns to form with a funny, sad, and sneaky performance as Charlie Kaufman, a self-loathing screenwriter who has been hired to adapt Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief into a screenplay. Frustrated and infatuated by Orlean's elegant but plotless book (which is largely a rumination on flowers), Kaufman begins to write a screenplay about himself trying to write a screenplay about The Orchid Thief, all the while hounded by his twin brother Donald (Cage again), who's cheerfully writing the kind of formulaic action movie that Kaufman finds repugnant. By its conclusion, Adaptation is the most artistically ambitious, most utterly cynical, and most uncategorizable movie ever to come out of Hollywood. Also starring Meryl Streep (as Susan Orlean), Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, and Brian Cox; superb performances throughout. --Bret Fetzer
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