American Fiction | 'Bookstore' Clip - Jeffrey Wright
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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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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.
About MGM Studios: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content across all platforms. The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television content as well as the premium pay television network MGM+, which is available throughout the U.S. via cable, satellite, telco and digital distributors. In addition, MGM has investments in numerous other television channels, digital platforms and interactive ventures and is producing premium short-form content for distribution.
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00:00 Excuse me.
00:01 Uh, Ned, do you have any books
00:04 by the writer Thelonious Ellison?
00:06 ♪♪
00:09 Yeah, this way.
00:11 ♪♪
00:15 Here you go.
00:16 Right. Yeah.
00:18 Wait a minute. Why -- Why are these books here?
00:21 I'm not sure.
00:22 I would imagine that this author, Ellison, is...black.
00:27 That's me. Ellison.
00:29 Yeah.
00:30 He is me, and he and I are black.
00:34 Oh, bingo.
00:35 No bingo, Ned.
00:37 These books have nothing to do with African-American studies.
00:40 They're just literature.
00:41 The -- The blackest thing about this one is the ink.
00:45 I don't decide what sections the books go in,
00:48 and no one here does.
00:49 That's how chain stores work.
00:52 Right.
00:53 Ned, you don't make the rules.
00:56 ♪♪
00:59 I'm just gonna put them back after you leave.
01:01 Don't you dare, Ned.
01:03 Do not you dare.
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