Adaptation: The Self-Proclaiming Rhetoric of Charlie Kaufman and of the Apostle Paul
In his screenplay Adaptation, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman took the inventive step of writing himself by name into what would become a hit movie. By so doing, he escaped the virtual anonymity that characterizes even the most successful movie writers and ensured his name, his "branding...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2006]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Summary: | In his screenplay Adaptation, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman took the inventive step of writing himself by name into what would become a hit movie. By so doing, he escaped the virtual anonymity that characterizes even the most successful movie writers and ensured his name, his "branding," and the reception of his future writings. Yet the very nature of Kaufman's movies-Being John Malkovitch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Adaptation-show that as an author he is less concerned with realism or accurate autobiography than with narratives that sometimes blur the lines between fact and fiction. This paper argues that, for all its novelty, Kaufman's approach echoes the ancient rhetoric of Paul. Paul also literally "wrote himself into scripture" as the pre-eminent Apostle to the Gentiles, and despite his lack of official credentials, successfully styled himself as the main mortal character in his story- eventually, everyone's story-of how God was creating a new people among the Gentiles, a people who would become the Christian church. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.13.1.005 |