Confused about Meryl Streep's character + the Waitress

JaysonT, I will try to answer your questions as best as possible. As for your first question: 1. (Why was the waitress so mean to Nicolas Cage?), The waitress was chatting with him when he ordered the key lime pie and she discovered what he was reading. However, at least in her mind, Nicolas Cage crossed the line. In other words, it was one thing for her to carry on a casual conversation and charm a customer. After all, she WAS a waitress and certainly was looking for tips but I think it was another thing when he tried to get too friendly with her. Plus, he may have seemed desperate for her, which would have turned her off.
As for your second question ( I am very confused- was Meryl Streep a bitch in this film? The whole story doesn't make sense. I'm thinking its like Fight Club- Cage basically makes Streep start up an affair with Cooper- but that's just what he wrote, and not reality? I'm confused.), Meryl Streep's character in the movie may have seemed bitchy but more than anything, I think she was bored with her life and her husband and felt like she needed some kind of adventure. That is probably why John Larroche (Chris Cooper's character) would have appealed to Susan (Meryl Streep's character). JaysonT, I hope I have been a help to your questions. One thing I will say about ADAPTATION is that it takes a couple viewings to really understand everything in the film.

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first question answered above

2. the first two thirds of the movie are about him actually writing the movie interspersed with an "adaptation" of the novel, the last part is his "hollywood" ending with guns, drugs, sex, and death. Its like a "what-if" scenario, because he didnt want to change the actual book, so he says what if the author lied and they actually found the flower, and not only that theres drugs and guns, he makes himself a character and invents an ending with him involved.

1. It's probably very awkward for a waitress to be asked out by a customer. I think it is in the category of inappropriate. The waitress seemed to be caught off guard - it would probably be a normal reaction. Charlie probably realized he was in the wrong there.

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But also Charlie blew everything out of proportion, so her niceness was more extreme, and her rejection seemed so extreme. It was his agonisingly over-thinking introverted experience that we are seeing on film, rather than reality.


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