The mocking blankness of the empty page has sent many a screen scribe screwy.
Here’s how five of them fared…
There is nothing clever about describingAdaptation, because Kaufman so carefully writes exactly what hes doing into the screenplay.
Donald is full of vitality, optimism, success and Hollywood industry jargon.
He also provesAdaptationsmost mutable character, bringing the endless rumination to a poignant conclusion of self worth.
Hollywood can only take one taboo at a time, it seems.
It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar…
It culminates with Birnams imagination revolting against him and torturing his soul with caustic futility.
The Coen brothers create this cautionary tale of selling out with fire and brimstone subtlety.
This is the Coens torture writ large across the screen and proof that a blocked imagination can unleash demons.
Everything is a sinister distraction to keep the writer in terrible limbo.
Not only is her husband a murderous fiend, hes a horrible writer.
Writers success: one sentence (approx 10,000 times)Writers futility: 10/10Film: 10/10
