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The 2002 film “Adaptation” is about a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman and his struggle to adapt a book into a film script. Which real-life book was he trying to adapt?
- A “The Sea Around Us,” by Rachel Carson
- B “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- C “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean
- D “Leaving Las Vegas,” by John O’Brien
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From a 2002 article in The Times by Stephen Schiff:
It took the prodigious imagination of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman to see that the terrific movie wildly signaling inside “The Orchid Thief” was about how hard it is to find the terrific movie wildly signaling inside “The Orchid Thief.” Mr. Kaufman, quite aptly, called it “Adaptation.”
