Adaptation - #045

One Cage at a Time

The last time Nicolas Cage played a struggling screenwriter it netted him Oscar gold, 7 years later he teamed up with one of the greatest writers working today and ended up with his second nomination while playing dual roles. That’s right, Nic plays twins in this film and is absolutely brilliant as both parts. Join us as we breakdown the incredibly hilarious and heartbreaking meta masterpiece that is Adaptation.

Charlie Kaufman is an overwhelmed Hollywood screenwriter tasked with writing a film adaptation of a book with hardly any plot or an ending while dealing with sexual frustration, self-loathing and a freeloading twin brother whose own aspirations of screenwriting lead the two of them on an adventure that ultimately leads to deceit, drugs and murder.

Adaptation stars arguably the greatest actress of all time 21-time Oscar Nominee (that’s right I said TWENTY-ONE) including a nomination for best supporting actress in this film Meryl Streep, a man who crushes it every time he’s cast in a role and the only star to walk away from this film with Oscar gold Chris Cooper, a guy who doesn’t need you to remind him about the cover letter on his TPS reports Ron Livingston, an Oscar winning actress who disappears into every role she’s given Tilda Swinton, legendary Emmy winning actor who is currently crushing it on HBO’s Succession Brian Cox, Oscar nominated actress that even the Joker finds beautiful Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oscar winner and second best screen writer alive Nicolas Cage and of course, Academy Award winning actor and God’s gift to cinema Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.