I’m not a big believer in fate, the global unconscious, what have you. Still, coincidence is an odd occurrence even without some grander meaning attached. Take Adaptation, for instance. There’s a scene where John Laroche is looking through a door that has three letters prominently stuck to it; odds are it’s just a cute thing one of the set decorators put on, perhaps as an in -joke. Those letters hold a special significance for me, and to see them appear in a movie (let alone now, and this one, with the à propos subject matter) is just kind of strange.
Oh yeah, the movie? Excellent. I get it. I’m going to see it again tomorrow.
I’m almost totally convinced now that it is an in-joke. According to the IMDb, Gene Serdena was the set decorator for Adaptation, and also for Three Kings; the crew for the latter movie included costume designer Kym Barrett. But I guess we’ll have to wait for the DVD to find out for sure….