Daily Dialogue — August 26, 2010

“We open on Charlie Kaufman. Fat, old, bald, repulsive, sitting in a Hollywood restaurant, across from Valerie Thomas, a lovely, statuesque film executive. Kaufman, trying to get a writing assignment, wanting to impress her, sweats profusely. Fat, bald Kaufman paces furiously in his bedroom. He speaks into his hand held tape recorder, and he says: ‘Charlie Kaufman. Fat, bald, repulsive, old, sits at a Hollywood restaurant with Valerie Thomas.’”

 — Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage), Adaptation (2002), written by Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman, based on a book by Susan Orlean

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is characters talking out loud to themselves, suggested by Greg Colburn.

Trivia: A paragraph from Donald Kaufman’s script “The Three” is shown at the very end of the credits. It reads: “We’re all one thing, Lieutenant. That’s what I’ve come to realize. Like cells in a body. ‘Cept we can’t see the body. The way fish can’t see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.” — Cassie from THE THREE