In comparing the voice of Kaufman, Wilder/ Diamond, and Mathison you must first realize that you are dealing with three very different tones of voice and story. With Adaptation and A Boy's Life you have a fresh new idea. As with The Apartment you have the usual love story (not that that’s bad), but well written dialogue and characters through a duo of voices.
In Adaptation it’s as if Kaufman himself is writing his own reality. He uses himself as a character and even has himself writing the screenplay for the very screenplay we are reading. Kaufman's voice even gives us an incite to the under belly of a struggling writer. Kaufman manages to not only think up of such an impossible story, but to make a new way of telling the story of the screen writer. I think Wilder and Diamond would have like the dialogue as they are such voices of truly witty dialogue.
In The Apartment Wilder's and Diamond's voices' fall flat on an original story but do make up for it with strong characters and Dialogue. In the screenplay they both manage to write so well together they come off as being just one voice.
In A Boy's Life Mathison uses her voice to make us see what wonderful minds children have. Mathison writes her whole screenplay through the eyes of a small boy. She uses strong scenes of family and gives us a warm feeling when we visualize Mary reading to Gertie.
So each author has a very different voice one with a real world sense, the second combines their voices to make us laugh and cry, and the last warms our hearts.
-sb-
My two questions!
1. In Adaptation which brother do you think is the more developed by Kaufman (Charlie or Donald)?
2. In Weston (in some questions to ask about the characters) what is the question you thought Weston left out?
3 comments:
Charlie, he was shown developing the most on screen.
Oh I definitely believe Charlie was developed more. You are in Charlie's head throughout, and Donald is mostly seen as a joke, which Donald himself references once he reads the script. Most of Charlie's dialogue deals with how he feels about himself, which lets the reader completely into his brain.
Charlie is clearly the more developed of the two brothers. We begin and end with Charlie and see him transform from a nervous wreck of a man to a happy and confident screenwriter.
Donald is the jump-off,though. He grows as a character as well, but not nearly as much as Charlie.
Also, Nic Cage is my jam. "It's called The 3." "Isn't that FUCKED UP?!" "So it's machines versus horse." This movie is the shit.
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