On the Origin of Species: Adaptation

Abstract

The question of literature and the media has always been of interest to writers and critics alike, and Charles Kaufman‟s Adaptation is no exception to the rule. Seen as an
intertextual re-telling or transformation of the source text, Charles Kaufman‟s script discloses its own status not only as a pre-text but also as a theoretical co(n)text made up of
universal principles according to which an adaptation works. As such, it is not memory – seen as intertextuality that controls the process or the product of adaptation but rather
evolution, i.e. the capacity to adapt and evolve to any given circumstances.