Adaptation. Page #2

Yeah, and don't forget,

these plants are all endangered, sir.

Every one of them.

Well, exactly. That's exactly the issue.

This is a state preserve.

Yes, sir. It is.

But...

My colleagues are Seminole Indians.

Did I mention that?

You're familiar, I'm sure,

with the State of Florida

v. James E. Billie?

So you know even though Seminole Chief

Billie killed a Florida panther,

one of, what,

40 in the entire world?

Forty.

Forty.

The state couldn't

successfully prosecute him,

because, you know,

he's an Indian, and it's his right.

As repugnant as you and I, as white

conservationists, find his actions.

But...

Not to mention the failed attempts

on three occasions to prosecute

Seminoles for poaching palm fronds.

Which I believe they use to thatch the

roofs of their traditional chickee huts.

How about that?

With the chickee huts, right?

Yeah, he's right. That's exactly what

we use them for. Chickee huts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I don't...

I can't let you fellas leave yet.

Just hold on there a minute.

Okay?

Charles, is that you?

Did you eat lunch?

I had that shrimp cocktail

in the fridge. Was it yours?

I hope not. I couldn't remember,

so I ate it.

Maybe we should write our names

on our food items from now on.

What's with you?

My back.

Charles, you'll be glad.

I have a plan to get me out of your house, pronto.

A job is a plan. Is your plan a job?

Drum roll, please.

I'm gonna be a screenwriter.

Like you.

I know you think this is one

of my "get rich quick" schemes,

but I'm doing it right.

I'm taking a three-day seminar,

and it's only 500 bucks.

Screenwriting seminars

are bullshit.

In theory, I agree with you.

But this one's different.

This one's highly regarded

in the industry.

Donald, don't say "industry."

I'm sorry. I forgot.

Charles, this guy

knows screenwriting.

People come from all over

to study with him.

I'll pay you back as soon as I...

Let me explain something.

Anybody who says he's got "the answer"

will attract desperate people,

be it in the world of religion...

I need to lie down

while you explain this.

Sorry. I apologize.

Okay, go ahead.

So...

Sorry. Okay. Go.

There are no rules, Donald.

And anybody who says there are

is just, you know...

Not rules. Principles.

McKee writes that a rule says,

"You must do it this way."

A principle says, "This works and

has through all remembered time."

The script I'm starting,

it's about flowers.

Oh.

Nobody's ever done a movie

about flowers before.

So there are no guidelines.

What about Flowers for Algernon?

Well, that's not about flowers.

And it's not a movie.

I'm sorry.

I never saw it.

How...? Okay, keep going.

Look, my point is that

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