American Fiction Movie Featurette - First Look (2023) - US Release Date: December 15, 2023
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
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00:00 Monk, your books are good, but they're not popular.
00:02 Monk is a writer, but for those few people out there who still read,
00:07 they don't like what he's offering.
00:09 Editors, they want a black book.
00:11 They have a black book. I'm black, and it's my book.
00:14 You know what I mean.
00:15 He doesn't want to be pigeonholed in terms of the stories that he writes.
00:19 Look at what they publish. Look at what they expect us to write.
00:22 He's sick of the racial politics of being a black artist in the world.
00:26 I just want to rub their noses in it.
00:29 So, he pulls a prank and writes a new novel.
00:32 Hello?
00:33 I be standing outside in the night.
00:35 Deadbeat dads, rappers, crack.
00:37 You said you wanted black stuff. That's black, right?
00:40 I see what you're doing.
00:42 And it becomes the best-selling novel of his career.
00:45 We believe Mr. Lee has written a bestseller.
00:47 It's a joke. The most lucrative joke you've ever told.
00:50 But then he sees folks like, "This is amazing."
00:53 Is this based on your actual life?
00:55 Yeah, you think some bitch-ass college boy can come up with that shit?
00:59 No, no. No, I don't.
01:00 It drives him off the wall.
01:02 Your books change people's lives.
01:06 They're offering $4 million for the movie, right?
01:08 Yes!
01:09 The dumber I behave, the richer I get.
01:11 This film explores identity, culture, race, and family in a way that I think is really interesting.
01:18 This has gone too far.
01:21 Stag Arlie is still on the run from authorities.
01:23 You haven't done anything. It's not like they can arrest you.
01:25 I think it's going to be really gratifying for people to gather in a theater and watch this.
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