This Adaptation video essay doubles as a pretty great Adaptation parody

The comedic interplay between Tucker and his “brother” Zach (played by friend and artist Zach Brown) could have easily devolved into pure, silly parody. Tucker manages, however, to slip numerous little nuggets of real insight into his script. “[Adaptation’s] greater success is that it authentically captures the neurotic, laborious, and dizzying process of writing something. This is enhanced by the meta aspect of it being a film about writing the film the audience is watching,” Tucker writes in his film within a film that’s about writing the film you’re watching. In the end, this video essay is as much about the struggle to write insightful, well-researched film criticism as it is about Charlie Kaufman’s film. That’s maybe the best tribute to Adaptation there is.

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