I was trying to write a blog about flowers...
Charlie "I've written myself into my screenplay." Donald "That's kinda weird, huh?" The above quote from Adaptation (2002) sprang to mind this week when I noticed that I seem to have somehow started following my own blog. So on the back of that, I decide to write about a unique voice in contemporary cinema; a rare beast, a screenwriter autuer. Few writers (I say few but I can only think of one and it's him, and I just like to be on the safe side, and am more than willing to bow to anyone's superior knowledge) are bestowed with the title autuer. Despite the the fact that that the term translates as author, that high regard is reserved for the directors of film, perhaps not surprising really given the visual nature of the medium. Kaufman has had his screenplays brought to the screen by a diverse range of directors (Michel Gondry, George Clooney, Spike Jonze and Kaufman himself) the worlds and the characters that inhabit them main