:05:03
Like... an orchid heist movie
or something, you know?
:05:07
Or changing the orchids
into poppies...
:05:10
...and making it about drug running,
you know?
:05:12
- Definitely.
- Why can't there be a movie...
:05:14
...simply about flowers?
:05:16
I guess we thought that maybe...
:05:18
...Susan Orlean and Laroche
could fall in love, and...
:05:22
Okay. But I'm saying, it's like,
I don't wanna cram in sex...
:05:25
...or guns or car chases...
:05:28
...you know,
or characters, you know...
:05:32
...learning profound life lessons.
:05:35
Or growing,
or coming to like each other...
:05:37
...or overcoming obstacles to succeed
in the end, you know? I mean...
:05:40
The book isn't like that...
:05:43
...and life isn't like that.
You know, it just isn't. And...
:05:49
I feel very strongly about this.
:05:54
John Laroche is a tall guy,
skinny as a stick...
:05:57
...pale-eyed,
slouch-shouldered...
:06:00
...sharply handsome, despite the fact
he's missing all his front teeth.
:06:04
I went to Florida two years ago
to write a piece for The New Yorker.
:06:08
It was after reading a small article about
a white man and three Seminole men...
:06:12
...arrested with rare orchids
they'd stolen out of a place...
:06:15
...called the Fakahatchee Strand
State Preserve.
:06:21
As natural selection works solely by
and for the good of each being...
:06:27
...all corporeal and mental endowments
will tend to progress towards perfection.
:06:32
It's interesting to contemplate
an entangled bank...
:06:53
Polyrrhiza lindenii.
:06:56
A ghost.