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Clips from Adaptation. (2002)

"these plants are all endangered, sir. Every one of them."
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"Well, exactly. That's exactly the issue. This is a state preserve."
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"Yes, sir. It is."
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"- But... - My colleagues are Seminole Indians."
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"Did I mention that? You're familiar, I'm sure,"
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"with the State of Florida versus James E. Billie?"
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"So you know even though Seminole Chief Billie killed a Florida panther,"
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"one of, what, 40 in the entire world?"
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"- Forty. - Forty."
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"The state couldn't successfully prosecute him,"
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"because, you know, he's an Indian, and it's his right."
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"As repugnant as you and I, as white conservationists, find his actions."
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"- But... - Not to mention the failed attempts"
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"on three occasions to prosecute Seminoles for poaching palm fronds."
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"Which I believe they use to thatch the roofs of their traditional chickee huts."
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"How about that? With the chickee huts, right?"
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"Yeah, he's right. That's exactly what we use them for. Chickee huts."
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"- Yeah. - Yeah."
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"Yeah."
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"Yeah, but I don't..."
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"I can't let you fellas leave yet."
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"- Just hold on there a minute. - Okay?"
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"Charles, is that you?"
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"Did you eat lunch?"
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"I had that shrimp cocktail in the fridge. Was it yours?"
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"I hope not. I couldn't remember, so I ate it."
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"Maybe we should write our names on our food items from now on."
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"- What's with you? - My back."
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"Charles, you'll be glad. I have a plan to get me out of your house, pronto."
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"- A job is a plan. Is your plan a job? - Drum roll, please."
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"I'm gonna be a screenwriter. Like you."
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"I know you think this is one of my "get rich quick" schemes,"
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"but I'm doing it right."
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"I'm taking a three-day seminar, and it's only 500 bucks."
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"Screenwriting seminars are bullshit."
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"In theory, I agree with you. But this one's different."
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"This one's highly regarded in the industry."
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"Donald, don't say "industry"."
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"I'm sorry. I forgot."
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"Charles, this guy knows screenwriting."
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"People come from all over to study with him."
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"- I'll pay you back as soon as I... - Let me explain something."
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"Anybody who says he's got "the answer" will attract desperate people,"
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"be it in the world of religion..."
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"I need to lie down while you explain this."
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"Sorry. I apologize."
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"Okay, go ahead."
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"- So... - Sorry. Okay. Go."
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"There are no rules, Donald."
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"And anybody who says there are is just, you know..."
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"Not rules. Principles."
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"McKee writes that a rule says, "you must do it this way"."
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"A principle says, "this works and has through all remembered time"."
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"The script I'm starting,"
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"it's about flowers."
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"Nobody's ever done a movie about flowers before."
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"- So there are no guidelines. - What about Flowers for Algernon?"
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"Well, that's not about flowers. And it's not a movie."
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"I'm sorry. I never saw it."
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"How...? Okay, keep going."
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"Look, my point is that those teachers are dangerous"
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"if your goal is to do something new."
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"A writer should always have that goal. Writing is a journey into the unknown."
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"It's not building, you know, one of your model airplanes."
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"McKee is a former Fulbright Scholar, Charles."
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"Are you a former Fulbright Scholar?"
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"Say something. I dragged her here, and now I'm not saying anything."
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"Make her laugh. Say something funny."
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"I hate parties, Amelia. Why did we come here?"
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"Because we're hip, young trendsetters on the make?"
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"More like old losers sitting on the floor, maybe."
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"Jesus, Charlie."
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"Speak for yourself. Okay..."
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"Charlie, we're gonna fix you up."
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"We're gonna solve the whole Charlie Kaufman mess for once and for all."
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"- Okay. - Okay, let me see."
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"What do you need? What, what, what?"
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"Well, I'm glad you took the orchid script."
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"I think it will be good for you to get out of your head."
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"It'll ground you to think about the bigger picture, about nature and stuff."
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"I still can't believe they gave me that job."
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"I mean, after that lunch. I was sweating insanely."
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"I was ranting. I was a mess."
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"You were nervous because she was pretty."
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"How do you know she was pretty?"
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"After eight months of knowing you, I think I get what makes you sweat."
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"Well, whatever. Well, moving on, what next?"
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"You need a new getup. This whole flannel-shirt thing,"
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"it's not really doing anything for you anymore."
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"Thanks for coming out with me tonight, Amelia."
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"To begin."
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"To begin."
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"How to start?"
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"I'm hungry."
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"I should get coffee."
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"Coffee would help me think."
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"But I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee."
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"Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes."
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"Maybe banana-nut."
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"That's a good muffin."
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"Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation."
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"Victorian-era orchid hunter William Arnold"
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"drowned on a collecting expedition."
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"Osmers vanished without a trace in Asia."
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"Augustus Margary survived toothache, rheumatism, pleurisy and dysentery,"
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"only to be murdered when he completed his mission"
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"and traveled beyond Bhamo."
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"Laroche loved orchids, but I..."
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"I came to believe he loved the difficulty and fatality of getting them"
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"almost as much as he loved the orchids themselves."
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"I've been a professional horticulturist for like 12 years."
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"Uh, I owned my own plant nursery, which was destroyed by the hurricane."
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"I'm a professional plant lecturer."
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"I've given over, like, 60 lectures on the cultivation of plants."
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"I'm a published author, both in magazine and book form."
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"And I have extensive experience with orchids"
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"and the asexual micropropagation of orchids under aseptic cultures."
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"That's laboratory work. It's not at all like your nursery work."
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"I'm probably the smartest person I know."
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"- Thank you. - You're very welcome."
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