My heart wants Arizona but my head says Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will face off in the big game.
They [them who decides such things] let me go home early tonight and so, after my version of the evening martini I revisited "Adaptation" staring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper and Nicolas Cage. This film easily makes it into my all time top 25. There's a scene near the end when both brothers are hiding in the woods and talking:Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh.
Donald Kaufman: Oh, God. I was so in love with her.
Charlie Kaufman: I know. And you were flirting with her. And she was being really sweet to you.
Donald Kaufman: I remember that.
Charlie Kaufman: Then, when you walked away, she started making fun of you with Kim Canetti. And it was like they were laughing at *me*. You didn't know at all. You seemed so happy.
Donald Kaufman: I knew. I heard them.
Charlie Kaufman: How come you looked so happy?
Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.
Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.
Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.
Charlie Kaufman: Thank you.
Donald Kaufman: For what?
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