It’s like I can’t just have something- I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it” (Orlean 33). I’ll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. Laroche’s tone is continually obsessive, “Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. Laroche’s desire to possess drives him and he is dependent upon objects for his happiness. Orlean sees his passion for each of his projects as intoxicating and Kaufmann comments on her need to be around someone so “alive.” (Jonze) He makes no excuses for his passions and relies on them to “live deliberately” as Thoreau would say, or more simply to live in the way the Orlean continually describes as intoxicating in her thoughts and personal opinions brought about through narrative style. Throughout both stories, Laroche and Orlean both display the theme, and in Adaptation, Kaufmann defines it.īeginning with Laroche, his personality is consistent throughout both The Orchid Thief and Adaptation through biographical sketch. Orlean focuses more strictly upon the nature of passion and in so doing inadvertently captures Kaufmann’s theme through each of her characters’ pursuit of said passion. Kaufmann draws the theme out of The Orchid Thief with Adaptation, showing a more existential approach to the universal need for people to “whittle life down,” as Orlean puts it, and to find a solid basis for purpose in life.
Both Orlean and Kaufmann address the consistent theme of dependency as a means of coping with the demands of the world through their literary elements.
#THE ORCHID THIEF MOVIE#
Charlie Kaufmann’s movie, Adaptation, is a movie adaptation of Orlean’s book, following Charlie himself and tracing his pursuit to write the screenplay for the movie Adaptation itself. Orlean’s book, The Orchid Thief, is a nonfiction account of Orlean’s interaction and admiration of “the orchid thief” himself (a man named Laroche) and his perspective on passion, specifically that regarding orchids. Kaufmann has a unique vision of Orlean and takes the liberty of fully developing a theme in Adaptation only partially developed in The Orchid Thief. Objects, People, and Self: Dependency in Synthesis
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