{"id":1597,"date":"2005-05-29T01:33:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1597.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/05\/29\/adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Adaptation<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clever, bizarre, self-referential, and wonderfully structured story from the same writer\/director team that did <i>Being John Malkovich<\/i>.  It&#8217;s an apparently sensible adaption of Susan Orlean&#8217;s book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/009928958X\/\">The Orchid Thief<\/a><\/i> (a real book, despite having a touch of the S. Morgenstern to it), wrapped in the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman struggling to find a way of writing the film adaptation of same&#8230;until it goes totally off the rails, straying beyond the boundaries of the book, and into an off-kilter pseudo-thriller.  Brilliant stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clever, bizarre, self-referential, and wonderfully structured story from the same writer\/director team that did Being John Malkovich. It&#8217;s an apparently sensible adaption of Susan Orlean&#8217;s book The Orchid Thief (a real book, despite having a touch of the S. Morgenstern to it), wrapped in the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman struggling to find a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}