Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

Today we are talking about the 2002 film Adaptation and I'm joined by the Lessons from the Screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand.

Hello everybody.

Writer Brian Bittner.

Hello, hello.

And for this video, director, Alex Cayaros.

Hello.

So adaptation is a movie about a guy writing the movie that you're watching.

And as a writer, I feel like it's a very cathartic watch because it really captures the

insanity and the stress of writing a screenplay.

And so way back when, like within the first year of starting the channel, I had the idea that it'd be really fun because people request a

Charlie Kaufman script all the time. And it was like, okay, well, doing a video essay about the

screenwriting of adaptation just seems like a natural idea because it's about screenwriting. So wouldn't it be fun

to do a video about me trying to figure out how to do a video about adaptation?

I also like that when I joined the team, I was like, you know what you should do? And you're

like, yeah, I know. Oh, way ahead of you, buddy. Well, I feel like it's, it does just seem like if you know the movie and you like are

in on the idea of the channel, it's like a natural idea if you like kind of spend a little

bit of time thinking about it.

But it's easier said than done or easier thought than executed.

Definitely.

I mean, yeah, I think you've pitched that me very early on in the channel, and I immediately

just got like those kind of movie chill excitement about it.

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