:05:01
I'd want to remain true to that.
:05:02
I'd wanna let the movie exist,
rather than be...
:05:06
...artificially plot-driven.
- Great.
:05:11
I guess I'm not exactly sure
what that means.
:05:15
I'm not sure I know
what that means either.
:05:18
I just don't wanna ruin it by making
it a Hollywood thing. You know?
:05:21
Like... an orchid heist movie
or something, you know?
:05:26
Or changing the orchids
into poppies...
:05:28
...and making it about drug running,
you know?
:05:31
- Definitely.
- Why can't there be a movie...
:05:33
...simply about flowers?
:05:35
I guess we thought that maybe...
:05:37
...Susan Orlean and Laroche
could fall in love, and...
:05:40
Okay. But I'm saying, it's like,
I don't wanna cram in sex...
:05:44
...or guns or car chases...
:05:47
...you know,
or characters, you know...
:05:51
...learning profound life lessons.
:05:53
Or growing,
or coming to like each other...
:05:55
...or overcoming obstacles to succeed
in the end, you know? I mean...
:05:59
The book isn't like that...
:06:01
...and life isn't like that.
You know, it just isn't. And...
:06:08
I feel very strongly about this.
:06:12
John Laroche is a tall guy,
skinny as a stick...
:06:15
...pale-eyed,
slouch-shouldered...
:06:18
...sharply handsome, despite the fact
he's missing all his front teeth.
:06:23
I went to Florida two years ago
to write a piece for The New Yorker.
:06:26
It was after reading a small article about
a white man and three Seminole men...
:06:31
...arrested with rare orchids
they'd stolen out of a place...
:06:33
...called the Fakahatchee Strand
State Preserve.
:06:39
As natural selection works solely by
and for the good of each being...
:06:46
...all corporeal and mental endowments
will tend to progress towards perfection.
:06:50
It's interesting to contemplate
an entangled bank...