# Cold Hard Cage, Week 2 - Adaptation (2002)

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrac-film-club-6694874/cold-hard-cage-week-2-adaptation-2002
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrac-film-club-6694874/cold-hard-cage-week-2-adaptation-2002.md
Podcast: [MRAC Film Club](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrac-film-club-6694874)
Published: 2026-06-21T16:14:50+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anthony-ragucci/episodes/Cold-Hard-Cage--Week-2---Adaptation-2002-e3l35um
Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/ec947720/podcast/play/121787798/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-21%2F9fa357ce-beb2-0218-62ee-6e70117be1a5.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mrac-film-club-6694874/episodes/cold-hard-cage-week-2-adaptation-2002
Duration seconds: 5963

## Resource

Episode 140 - What's better than a movie with Nick Cage? How about a movie with 2 Nick Cages? This week we get meta with the story of Charlie Kaufman (played by Nick Cage) as he struggles to adapt the screen play for the novel The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep). Directed by Spike Jonze, this one is a modern meta classic that features and additional Cage who plays his own twin brother Donald. This one also made the MRAC history books as the 4th film to make it into the prestigious MRAC honors society, receiving a 10/10 from all 4 of us. Tune in as we break this one down. And tune in next week for a Cage double feature: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Color Out of Space (2019) email us at mracfilmclub@gmail.com

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mrac-film-club-6694874/episodes/cold-hard-cage-week-2-adaptation-2002/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrac-film-club-6694874/cold-hard-cage-week-2-adaptation-2002.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.