(2002) Screenplay Seminar Scene

This scene from 2002 s very well incorporates all clichés of the writing (or any creative) process: the urgent desire to express oneself, the inconfidence appearing when evaluating one s own work, and the apparently selfconfident and emotionally strong outside world : The amount of people gathered in this screenplaywriting seminar illustrates the masses of people wanting to learn to write in order to express their feelings apparently a quite general human desire. The amount of people attending the seminar emphasizes the widespread desire and serves in its abundance to communicate the force of this need. Watch Nicholas Cage s slouched composure and body language, as he plays the humorously oversubscribed (screenplay) writer Charlie Kaufman a man doubting every aspect of his own existence, and being extremely inconfident. This portrayal contrasts starkly with the (a few moments earlier) selfproclaimed asshole