r/MovieDetails • u/Forward-State2651 • Aug 23 '26

🥚 Easter Egg In Adaptation (2002), if you zoom in to Robert McKee’s mug, it has printed the 1993 Columbia Pictures logo, considering that the movie was distributed by Columbia itself

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u/armaedes Aug 23 '26

Fun fact: it has the logo even if don’t zoom in.

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u/StunningBug5728 Aug 24 '26

Still has it if you don't consider who it was distributed by too.

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u/The_Iceman2288 Aug 23 '26

Casting Brian Cox was the real Robert McKee's suggestion.

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u/david-saint-hubbins Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

Norm Macdonald told a story about attending McKee's writing workshop with Drake Sather (who went on to co-create and write Zoolander with Ben Stiller) when they first moved to LA in the early '90s.

McKee made the point that how you tell a story matters more than what happens in the story. Depending on how it's told, a story of a mother whose child dies of cancer might be less compelling than a story of someone who missed their bus.

So then for the rest of the day, Sather would lean over to Norm and whisper variations of, "Hey Margery... I don't mean to be insensitive, but that story about your boy dying... bit of a yawner... I don't know if you heard Mabel's story about getting on the bus this morning, but you might pick up a few pointers."

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u/tatorface Aug 24 '26

Fucking title gore

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u/Dragon_Pattern_1108 Aug 24 '26

Sony slapping a Columbia logo into the film has happened before...

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u/Kurdt234 Aug 23 '26

Thats a sick mug actually

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u/bigga_nutt Aug 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/8vyZouWSVhslwWA7Lp

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u/NedFlandersLordOfAll Aug 24 '26

I think it’s at least somewhat cool looking, what’s the problem with it?