:38:04
To write about a flower,
to dramatize a flower...
:38:07
...I have to show the flower's arc.
:38:09
And the flower's arc stretches back
to the beginning of life.
:38:12
How did this flower get here?
What was its journey?
:38:16
Therefore, I should infer
from analogy...
:38:21
...that probably all the organic beings
which have ever lived on this Earth...
:38:25
...have descended
from some one primordial form...
:38:30
...into which life was first breathed.
:38:33
It is a journey of evolution.
Adaptation.
:38:36
The journey we all take. A journey
that unites each and every one of us.
:38:40
Darwin writes that we all come
from the very first single-cell organism.
:38:44
Yet here I am.
:38:45
And there's Laroche.
There's Orlean.
:38:48
And there's the ghost orchid.
All trapped in our own bodies...
:38:51
...in moments in history.
That's it.
:38:55
That's what I need to do.
Tie all of history together.
:39:00
Start right before
life begins on the planet.
:39:03
All is...
:39:04
...lifeless.
And then, like, life begins...
:39:07
...with organisms.
Those little single-cell ones.
:39:09
And it's before sex, because,
like, everything was asexual.
:39:13
From there we go to bigger things.
Jellyfish.
:39:15
Then that fish that got legs
and crawled out on the land.
:39:18
And then we see,
you know, like, dinosaurs.
:39:21
And then they're around for a long time.
Then an asteroid comes and:
:39:26
- The insects, the mammals,
the primates, monkeys.
:39:29
The simple monkeys. Old-fashioned
monkeys giving way to the new ones.
:39:32
Whatever. And then apes.
Whatever. And man.
:39:35
Then we see the whole history of
human civilization: Hunting, war, love...
:39:39
...heartache, disease,
loneliness, technology.
:39:42
And we end with Susan Orlean
in her office at The New Yorker...
:39:46
...writing about flowers, and bang!
The movie begins.
:39:48
This is the breakthrough I've been
hoping for. It's never been done.
:39:52
McKee is a genius!
:39:55
And hilarious. He just comes up with all
these great jokes, and everybody laughs.