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Clips from Adaptation. (2002)

"Valerie's breathing down my neck."
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"- You can't rush inspiration. - Okay. All right. Fair enough."
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"Listen, the other reason I called was The Three."
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"It's just amazing."
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"- I don't know what that is. - Donald's script."
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"A smart, edgy thriller. It's the best script I've read all year."
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"- Good. - Yeah, I'm gonna sell it for a shitload."
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"Two fucking talented guys in one family."
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"Maybe you could get your brother to help you with the orchid thing."
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"- Marty, don't say that. I mean... - All right. It's just a thought, buddy."
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"I mean, he's really goddamn amazing at structure."
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"- I have to go. - All right. Adiós, amigo."
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"Finish that..."
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"Fuck!"
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"Okay, thank you, thank you."
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"We have a long three days ahead."
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"Years from now, you'll be at a posh cocktail party congratulating yourself"
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"on how you spent a weekend with an asshole from Hollywood for your art."
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"I am pathetic. I am a loser."
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"So, what is the substance of writing?"
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"I have failed. I am panicked. I have sold out. I am worthless."
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"I... What the fuck am I doing here?"
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"What the fuck am I doing here? Fuck!"
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"It is my weakness, my ultimate lack of conviction that brings me here."
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"Easy answers, rules to shortcut yourself to success."
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"And here I am because my jaunt into the abyss brought me nothing."
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"Well, isn't that the risk one takes for attempting something new?"
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"I should leave right now. I'll start over. I need to face this project head-on..."
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"And God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends."
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"God help you. It's flaccid, sloppy writing."
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"Any idiot can write narration to explain the thoughts of the character."
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"Okay, that's it. One hour for lunch."
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"You cannot have a protagonist without desire."
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"It doesn't make any sense. Any fucking sense."
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"You follow? Good."
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"Anyone else?"
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"Yes?"
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"What if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens?"
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"Where people don't change, they don't have any epiphanies."
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"They struggle and are frustrated, and nothing is resolved."
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"More a reflection of the real world."
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"The real world?"
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"Yes, sir."
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"The real fucking world."
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"First of all, you write a screenplay without conflict or crisis,"
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"you'll bore your audience to tears."
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"Secondly, nothing happens in the world?"
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"Are you out of your fucking mind?"
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"People are murdered every day."
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"There's genocide, war, corruption."
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"Every fucking day, somewhere in the world,"
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"somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody."
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"Every day, someone somewhere takes a conscious decision"
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"to destroy someone else."
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"People find love. People lose it."
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"A child watches a mother beaten to death on the steps of a church."
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"Someone goes hungry."
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"Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman."
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"If you can't find that stuff in life,"
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"then you, my friend, don't know crap about life!"
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"And why the fuck are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie?"
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"I don't have any use for it!"
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"I don't have any bloody use for it!"
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"Okay, thanks."
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"- Thank you. - You're welcome."
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"No. Thank you."
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"Thank you so much, Mr. McKee."
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"This course makes you look at writing in a whole different way."
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"- Mr. McKee. - Yes?"
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"I'm the guy you yelled at this morning."
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"I need more."
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"I'm the one who thought things didn't happen in life."
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"Ah. Right. Okay."
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"- Nice to see you. - I need to talk."
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"Mr. McKee, my even standing here is very scary."
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"I don't meet people well."
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"But what you said this morning shook me to the bone."
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"It was bigger than my screenwriting choices."
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"It was about my choices as a human being. Please."
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"Yeah."
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"Well, you know, I could sure use a drink, my friend."
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"But a little fantastic and fleeting and out of reach."
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"Then what happens?"
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"Well, that's the end of the book."
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"I wanted to present it simply"
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"without big character arcs or sensationalizing the story."
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"I wanted to show flowers as God's miracles."
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"I wanted to show that Orlean never saw the blooming ghost orchid."
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"It was about disappointment."
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"I see."
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"That's not a movie."
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"You gotta go back, put in the drama."
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"I can't go back. I've got pages of false starts and wrong approaches."
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"- I'm way past my deadline. - I'll tell you a secret."
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"A last act makes a film."
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"Wow them in the end, and you got a hit."
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"You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end"
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"and you've got a hit."
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"Find an ending. But don't cheat."
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"And don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina."
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"Your characters must change"
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"and the change must come from them."
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"Do that and you'll be fine."
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"You promise?"
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"Mr. McKee."
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"- Have you taken my course before? - My brother did."
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"My twin brother, Donald. He's the one who got me to come."
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"- Twin screenwriters? - Yeah."
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"Well, Julius and Philip Epstein,"
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"who wrote Casablanca..."
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"- They were twins. - You mentioned that in class."
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"Finest screenplay ever written."
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"Great writers' residence."
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"- Donald. - Hey, how's your trip going?"
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"You getting it on with that lady journalist, you dog, you?"
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"Yeah."
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"Listen, I'm just calling to say congratulations on your script."
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"Isn't that cool? Marty says he can get me high-sixes against a mil-five."
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"That's great, Donald."
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"I want to thank you for all your help."
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