Adaptation. (2002) Poster

(2002)

Meryl Streep: Susan Orlean

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  • Susan Orlean : There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

  • John Laroche : You know why I like plants?

    Susan Orlean : Nuh uh.

    John Laroche : Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

    Susan Orlean : [pause]  Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting is almost shameful. It's like running away.

  • Susan Orlean : It's over. Everything's over. I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I WANT TO BE NEW.

  • John Laroche : Look, I'll tell you a story, all right? I once fell deeply, you know, profoundly in love with tropical fish. I had 60 goddamn fish tanks in my house. I'd skin-dive to find just the right ones. Anisotremus virginicus, Holacanthus ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus. You name it. Then one morning, I woke up and said, "Fuck fish." I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. That's how much "fuck fish." That was 17 years ago and I have never stuck so much as a toe in that ocean. And I love the ocean.

    Susan Orlean : But why?

    John Laroche : Done with fish.

  • Susan Orlean : Do you ever get lonely sometimes, Johnny?

    John Laroche : Well, I was a weird kid. Nobody liked me. But I had this idea. If I waited long enough, someone would come around and just, you know... understand me. Like my mom, except someone else. She'd look at me and quietly say: "Yes." Just like that. And I wouldn't be alone anymore.

  • Susan Orlean : What I came to understand is that change is not a choice. Not for a species of plant, and not for me. It happens - and you are different.

  • Susan Orlean : YOU FAT PIECE OF SHIT. He's dead.

    Charlie Kaufman : Shut up.

    Susan Orlean : YOU LOSER. You've ruined my life, YOU FAT FUCK.

    Charlie Kaufman : FUCK YOU LADY. You're just a lonely, old, desperate, pathetic DRUG ADDICT.

  • Susan Orlean : I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

  • John Laroche : Who's gonna play me?

    Susan Orlean : Well, I've gotta write the book first, John. Then, you know, they get somebody to write the screenplay.

    John Laroche : Hey, I think I should play me.

  • Susan Orlean : Aww, I wish I were an ant. Awww, they're so shiny.

    John Laroche : You're shinier than any ant darlin'

    Susan Orlean : That's the sweetest thing anybody has EVER said to me.

    John Laroche : Welp, I like ya', that's why.

  • Susan Orlean : Can I ask you a personal question?

    John Laroche : Look, we're not lost.

  • John Laroche : Darling, I don't know what's come over you.

    Susan Orlean : You came all over me last time I was here, as I recall.

    John Laroche : My goodness.

  • Susan Orlean : John Leroche is a tall guy, skinny as a stick, pale eyes, slouch-shouldered, sharply handsome, despite the fact he's missing all his front teeth.

  • John Laroche : [viewing an orchid at a flower show]  Angraecum sesquipedale! A beauty! God! Darwin wrote about this one. Charles Darwin? Evolution guy? Hello? You see that nectary all the way down there? Darwin hypothesized a moth with a nose twelve inches long to pollinate it. Everyone thought he was a loon! Then, sure enough, they found this moth with a twelve-inch proboscis. Proboscis means "nose," by the way.

    Susan Orlean : I know what "proboscis" means.

    John Laroche : Yeah, let's not get off the subject. This isn't a pissing contest!

  • Susan Orlean : [stoned]  Very happy now.

  • Matthew Osceola : I can see your sadness. It's lovely.

    Susan Orlean : I'm just tired, that's all. That's my problem. So, maybe we could chat a little bit, and, you know, get some background for...

    Matthew Osceola : I'm not going to talk to you much. It's not personal. It's the Indian way.

  • Susan Orlean : We should kill him.

  • Susan Orlean : Why the ghost orchid?

    John Laroche : Well, the sucker's rare.

  • Susan Orlean : Orchids are the *sexiest* flowers on earth. The name orchid derives from the Latin orchis, which means testicle.

  • Susan Orlean : I wanted to want something as much as people wanted these plants. But, it isn't part of my constitution.

  • Susan Orlean : If the ghost orchid was really a phantom, it was such a bewitching one that it could seduce people to pursue it year after year and mile after miserable mile. If it was a real flower, I wanted to see one. The reason wasn't that I love orchids. I don't even especially like orchids. What I wanted was to see this thing that people were drawn to in such a singular and powerful way.

  • Susan Orlean : I think if I almost died, I would leave my marriage too.

    John Laroche : Why?

    Susan Orlean : Because I could. Because it's like a free pass. Nobody can judge you if you almost died.

  • Susan Orlean : I still haven't seen a ghost.

  • Susan Orlean : How's it going?

    John Laroche : Great. I'm training myself on the Internet. It's fascinating. I'm doing pornography. It's amazing how much these suckers will pay for photographs of chicks. It doesn't matter if they're fat or ugly or what.

    Susan Orlean : Well, that sounds good.

    John Laroche : It's great, is what it is.

  • Susan Orlean : Life seemed to be filled with things that were just like the ghost orchid. Wonderful to imagine and easy to fall in love with, but a little fantastic and fleeting and out of reach.

  • Susan Orlean : Most people yearn for something exceptional, something so inspiring they'd want to risk everything for that passion, but few would act on it. It was very powerful, and it's intoxicating to be around someone so alive.

  • Susan Orlean : I'm done with orchids, Laroche.

  • Susan Orlean : Our relationship was strictly reporter-subject. I mean, certainly an intimacy does evolve in this kind of relationship. By definition, I was so interested in everything he had to say. But the relationship ends when the book ends.

  • Susan Orlean : It's a flower. Just a flower.

  • Susan Orlean : I'm really freaking here, Johnny.

  • Susan Orlean : Are you going to write about this in your screenplay?

    Charlie Kaufman : I really don't know what this "is".

  • Valerie Thomas : Susan, we would really like to option this.

    Susan Orlean : You wanna make it into a movie?

    Valerie Thomas : Into a movie

    Susan Orlean : Oh, God!

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