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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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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 yeah...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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