Adaptation

 The movie Adaptation that we watched in class is based on the non fictional book "The Orchid Thief" by:Susan Orleans. The main character in the movie was known as Charlie Kaufman played by the actor Nicholas Cage.  In the movie, he has a lot of problems stacking up on him.  He has a really low self esteem, and when he tries to talk to women he ends up messing up.  He at the moment had to start writing a screen play for the book "The Orchid Thief" but is having a hard time writing it.  He wanted to change the way he does movies normally to a different style for this book.  As he goes on he realizes that it's harder than it seems and can't get himself to come up with anything.  In the movie he has a twin brother named Donald Kaufman and he was on the other hand a complete opposite of him.  He became a screen writer as well and became successful  on the first one he wrote and had a girlfriend as well.
The way that this movie represents imagination and reality is the way Charlie thinks about how things are going to happen in his mind, but when he tries to make it work it goes against him.  On the other hand, his brother tends to do the same but it goes right for him, and the reason for that is that Charlie has such a low self esteem and believes too low of himself.  As they go on they talk and figure out their true difference, which was that one cared too much about what others believed, and the other didn't care at all.  The way his brother Donald thinks about things is that he doesn't have to worry about everyone else thoughts and it works out for him, while Charlie stresses himself out just thinking about what they would say of it.  Donald's imagination turned into reality because of him believing in himself and having a positive outlook while Charlie's imagination troubled him too much of how peoples reaction to him would be.