Adaptation (2002)

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DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?

AI✦Examines how Adaptation uses diegetic communication–dialogue and action occurring within the story world itself–to create meta-commentary, allowing the film to debate its own themes and creative process without breaking the fourth wall.✦

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Theme · Words · Structure | 22 SEP 2024

Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!

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In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools to look at other ways that filmmakers - whether they be directors, writers, editors, or anyone else - can make the audience feel their ‘hand’ more. To that end, Mel, Stu and Chas dive into ADAPTATION, STORIES WE TELL and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION… →

Films: Adaptation (2002) , Stories We Tell (2012) , The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

Theme: Narrative Aesthetics , Theme

Words: Direct Address , Fourth Wall

Structure: Thematic Question

"I do think that simply by nature of calling him Charlie Kaufman and even just by getting Nicolas Cage to play him right off the bat, it is talking directly to us in a somewhat removed way, right?"

— mel | DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience