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that's right, Jason Segal has been cast as DFW in the new film The End of the Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBk1Mrb4RyM i dont know what to expect or how to feel. Wallace's words have moved me in a unique way for an author. i'm excited even though the prospect of Wallace on screen has such a feeling of stinging irony to it. Wallace was notoriously uncomfortable in front of a camera and his writing on cameras, film, and television seems to exemplify this tension. regardless, i'm curious to see how Mr. Segal is approaching this role so here is a wonderful interview with him exploring just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslLdC3hPjo i love that he mentions the video phone part in infinite jest, as i absolutely loved that and tried in futility to explain this to all of my friends when i read it.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:14 |
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rip dead bandanna man i have never read your book but i looked it up on wikipedia and it doesnt make a bit of god drat sense
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:16 |
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he's not a bad actor but dfw's family/friends didn't want a movie made so that's lovely i guess
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:17 |
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sounds like a pos. peace out
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:17 |
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Planarch posted:he's not a bad actor but dfw's family/friends didn't want a movie made so that's lovely i guess hitlers surviving relatives didnt want a movie made about him either, so
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:18 |
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Planarch posted:he's not a bad actor but dfw's family/friends didn't want a movie made so that's lovely i guess yeah...
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:18 |
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TEAYCHES posted:hitlers surviving relatives didnt want a movie made about him either, so a good point, and one i had not considered
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:18 |
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TEAYCHES posted:hitlers surviving relatives didnt want a movie made about him either, so yeah...
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:18 |
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isn't Jason Segal just an alias for Jason Bateman?
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:19 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:isn't Jason Segal just an alias for Jason Bateman? get that bologna on white bread outta here
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:20 |
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the interview with Segal talking about Wallace is making me feel better about the film than i did when i first saw the trailer
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:21 |
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jason, what did you think of infinite jest the first time you read it? "i thought it was gay and dumb" cut. jason that's probably not the best way to sell this movie, let's take that again
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:22 |
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shiksa posted:jason, what did you think of infinite jest the first time you read it? that was a thomas pynchon novel you rear end "foster" wallace wasn't fit to lick pynchon's boots
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:24 |
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shiksa posted:jason, what did you think of infinite jest the first time you read it? i dont get this at all. maybe it just depends on the set and setting when you read it, sort of like doing really good drugs, but i was taken away on a magic carpet ride from the very first chapter
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:25 |
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segal describes book clubbing with infinite jest as the coolest thing he ever did as an adult and how spot on the book predicted cultural trajectory towards today
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:27 |
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i saw him on conan and they played a clip and it looks like he does a bad job and makes dfw look like an even bigger neurotic self absorbed dweeb than dfw does himself and i say that about dfw lovingly but the performance looked bad
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:29 |
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mdm posted:i saw him on conan and they played a clip and it looks like he does a bad job and makes dfw look like an even bigger neurotic self absorbed dweeb than dfw does himself that's hard to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:30 |
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i read that david foster wallace had that napkin on his head to mop up his drool, because he was retarded. is that true?
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:30 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:that's hard to do seriously and then in the clip segal says "man" like a stereotypical stoner and it was just painful to watch the movie is getting good reviews though I guess so maybe it isn't bad?
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:32 |
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Orkin Mang posted:i read that david foster wallace had that napkin on his head to mop up his drool, because he was retarded. is that true? it was to mop up the cum from all the liberal arts poseurs jacking off to his books
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:33 |
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i struggle really bad wit this neurosis about my words expressing exactly what i mean even though i always knows that's impossible and i have severe anxiety disorder and i drug myself a lot to combat it and watching/reading DFW makes me feel so much better and less lonely
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:33 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:i struggle really bad wit this neurosis about my words expressing exactly what i mean even though i always knows that's impossible and i have severe anxiety disorder and i drug myself a lot to combat it and watching DFW makes me feel so much better and less lonely centuries ago you'd have died in childhood and the world would have been better off for it
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:35 |
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Horniest Manticore posted:it was to mop up the cum from all the liberal arts poseurs jacking off to his books
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:35 |
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im probably never going to read a dfw book in my life. he sounds like a fag who tries too hard. so why would i see a movie about him? it makes no sense.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:38 |
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Horniest Manticore posted:centuries ago you'd have died in childhood and the world would have been better off for it i could still kick your rear end tho
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:43 |
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Orkin Mang posted:im probably never going to read a dfw book in my life. he sounds like a fag who tries too hard. so why would i see a movie about him? it makes no sense. oh word?
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:44 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:i could still kick your rear end tho how long did it take you to type that? "eh! eh! my anxiety! people are constantly judging me! help me, footnote man! make me feel less gay!"
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:44 |
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Orkin Mang posted:im probably never going to read a dfw book in my life. he sounds like a fag who tries too hard. so why would i see a movie about him? it makes no sense. imagine a guy who tries all his life to be the new thomas pynchon, but fails because the real thomas pynchon won't let him that's dallas fort wallace
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:45 |
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i like DFW but refuse to admit it to most people because he's so popular with the "bros who read" crowd
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:46 |
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i only read explicitly marxist writers
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:47 |
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TEAYCHES posted:i only read explicitly marxist writers what about gay writers? lotsa those
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:47 |
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Oh Hell No posted:i like DFW but refuse to admit it to most people because he's so popular with the "bros who read" crowd this is problematic
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:47 |
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i met someone who was a dfw fan. they told me to read something he wrote about lobsters. it sounded like total poo poo to me and i never read it. im never going to see this movie.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:48 |
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Horniest Manticore posted:what about gay writers? lotsa those well i only read trotskyists, synonymous with gay
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:48 |
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TEAYCHES posted:i only read explicitly marxist writers you could claim that Jesus Christ read Marx in the sense that zizek says something something something
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:48 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:you could claim that Jesus Christ read Marx in the sense that zizek says and so on and so on *snort* ftfy
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:49 |
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They should just stop the movie all the goddamn time so you can read some overdone footnote in the back on the bottom of the screen.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:49 |
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Bip Roberts posted:They should just stop the movie all the goddamn time so you can read some overdone footnote in the back on the bottom of the screen. or have some hipster rear end in a top hat stand up and give his tedious running commentary at the same time the film's running. a better approximation of reading bananas foster wallace, imo
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:51 |
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whats everyones favorite dfw footnote?
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:52 |
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was david wallace a communist
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