Susan Orlean wrote one of the most unadaptable books, which became one of the best-adapted movies. Now she’s setting the challenge again with “Little Wing.”
Susan Orlean may be best known to a large swath of cinephiles less for her work and more for the adaptations of it—namely, a loosely structured investigation into the arrest of a group of flower poachers. In practice, it’s an exercise in conquering writer's block, with Kaufman mocking his own failed attempt to translate this challenging text into a coherent narrative.
I’m very interested in subcultures, and this was one that I had no idea existed. The more I learned about it, the more fascinating it became. Pigeons are really interesting, and there’s a lot of history that's really fascinating about the way they've been used.
The story got optioned immediately. It’s one of the few stories I’ve written where I could immediately see it as a movie, and partly because it's very visual. The birds are beautiful, and the birds flying are so visual. This is partly why I always find it interesting that I’ve had a fair number of stories optioned for film—because I’m not trying to write a film, and the demands of what makes a good piece of narrative nonfiction are really different from a movie.
Despite being such a strange movie, like most of Charlie Kaufman’s movies, its popularity really does prove your hypothesis that people have more of a tolerance for nontraditional stories than Hollywood tends to think.
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