Agony and ecstasy: the writer’s block in Adaptation (2002)
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https://doi.org/10.14393/par-v8n1-2023-66625Keywords:
Screenplay, Writer’s block, Creativity, NarrativeAbstract
This work aims to explore blocks that a writer can go through based on the film Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002), written by Charlie Kaufman. Through film analysis we seek to raise the causes and symptoms for these blocks and the solution found by Kaufman to unite creativity and functionality in an adapted script. We understand that specificities in the screenplay can make the writer's work difficult and that the recurrent translation of writer's block to creative block in Portuguese generally does not distinguish psychological problems from those related to the screenwriter's work methods and tools.
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