:05:00
l'd want to remain true to that.
:05:02
l'd wanna let the movie exist,
rather than be...
:05:05
-...artificially plot-driven.
-Great.
:05:10
l guess l'm not exactly sure
what that means.
:05:14
l'm not sure l know
what that means either.
:05:17
l just don't wanna ruin it by making
it a Hollywood thing. You know?
:05:20
Like...an orchid heist movie
or something, you know?
:05:25
Or changing the orchids
into poppies...
:05:28
...and making it about drug running,
you know?
:05:30
-Definitely.
-Why can't there be a movie...
:05:32
...simply about flowers?
:05:34
l guess we thought that maybe...
:05:36
...Susan Orlean and Laroche
could fall in love, and--
:05:39
Okay. But l'm saying, it's like,
l don't wanna cram in sex...
:05:43
...or guns or car chases...
:05:46
...you know,
or characters, you know...
:05:50
...learning profound life lessons.
:05:52
Or growing,
or coming to like each other...
:05:55
...or overcoming obstacles to succeed
in the end, you know? l mean--
:05:58
The book isn't like that...
:06:00
...and life isn't like that.
You know, it just isn't. And....
:06:07
l feel very strongly about this.
:06:11
John Laroche is a tall guy,
skinny as a stick...
:06:14
...pale-eyed,
slouch-shouldered...
:06:17
...sharply handsome, despite the fact
he's missing all his front teeth.
:06:22
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...
:06:30
...arrested with rare orchids
they'd stolen out of a place...
:06:32
... called the Fakahatchee Strand
State Preserve.
:06:39
As natural selection works solely by
and for the good of each being...
:06:45
...all corporeal and mental endowments
will tend to progress towards perfection.
:06:49
It's interesting to contemplate
an entangled bank....