All three movies have very different authorial voices. A Boy’s Life by Melissa Mathison is written for literally anyone to enjoy. Anybody (as long as they can read basic novels) can jump into it and understand it for the most part. Also, it was written with the sci-fi aspect, which is much different from the other two.
The Apartment is written in more of a novel style which was very open for a director’s vision. Also the locations did not vary as much as either script. The main ones were an apartment, an office, elevator, bar, and that’s about it. The way this script did well was dialogue. Dialogues between the characters were what kept this screen play interesting.
Adaptation by Charlie and Donald Kaufman was written very differently compared to the other movies. Two different stories that jump back and forth to each other, as well as change time constantly. To make it even more confusing, one story was of him writing the other story! By doing this he may have limited his audience because most would not like to be confused. But perhaps he did that to keep it “un hollywoodized”?
Questions
1) Do you feel that adaptation is an adaptation of a novel (like what Oscar categorized it), or more of screen play of trying to write an adaptation of a novel?
2) Did anyone find it interesting that Kaufman discuses his opening scene (about half way through), when we’ve already saw it happen?
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