AMERICAN FICTION Trailer 2 (2024) Jeffrey Wright, Adam Brody
Transcript
00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Are those human remains?
00:09 You guys have a permit for that?
00:10 - Shut the fuck up, Philip.
00:12 - Cliff, you don't talk to me like that.
00:13 - You want me to beat your ass?
00:14 - I'm just--
00:15 - Fuck out of here, Philip!
00:16 - I will eat your sweater vest for dinner.
00:18 - Always been a fucking douche.
00:20 - Listen, Monk, you need some time off.
00:23 Why don't you go back and spend
00:24 a little more time with your family?
00:25 - You know that all successful writers
00:27 are tormented by their families.
00:29 - You look fat.
00:30 - Okay.
00:31 ♪ Never told a lie ♪
00:32 - Welcome home, baby!
00:33 - How's the fuck?
00:34 - I don't feel like much of a writer lately.
00:36 - Your books change people's lives.
00:37 - And something I've written haven't changed your life?
00:39 - Absolutely.
00:40 My dining room table was wobbly as hell.
00:42 - Oh my God.
00:43 - Before your last book came out.
00:44 It was like perfect.
00:46 ♪ I'm a fucking liar ♪
00:48 - How's your brother doing?
00:50 - I still live in Tucson.
00:51 - What's wrong with Tucson?
00:52 - There's one gay bar and it's full of college kids.
00:54 One of them asked me if I was Tyler Perry.
00:56 - I mean, Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right?
00:58 - Fuck you.
00:59 (laughing)
01:01 - Any news?
01:02 - Editors, they want a black book.
01:03 - They have one.
01:04 I'm black and it's my book.
01:06 Look at what they expect us to write.
01:07 - Would you read an excerpt?
01:09 - Yo, Sheronda, where you be going in a hurry like that?
01:12 If and you gots to know, I was going to the pharmacy.
01:15 (audience applauding)
01:16 ♪ Oh, when you're living on the fake ♪
01:18 ♪ Something's got to give ♪
01:20 - If they want stereotypes, I'll give them one.
01:23 (upbeat music)
01:25 - What is this?
01:25 - There'd be dads, rappers, crack.
01:28 - And it's black, right?
01:29 - Nobody's gonna publish this.
01:30 - Just want to rub their noses in it.
01:32 - We love it.
01:33 - What? - What?
01:33 - It is very, uh...
01:35 - Black?
01:36 - Yes, that's it.
01:37 I'm happy you said it and not me.
01:39 (laughing)
01:39 ♪ Gonna give a little more ♪
01:41 - I wrote it as a joke.
01:42 - People want to love you, Monk.
01:43 We should let them love all of you.
01:45 ♪ Gonna go against the clock ♪
01:46 ♪ Gonna give a little more ♪
01:49 - We sold the movie rights.
01:53 - Yes!
01:54 - We think it is gonna be a bestseller.
01:55 - I'm sure white people on the Hamptons will delight in it.
01:59 - Yeah, we will.
02:00 - They, we...
02:02 It's gonna be huge.
02:03 (upbeat music)
02:05 - Can you stick around and help with mother?
02:06 - I gotta get home.
02:07 - It's eight in the morning.
02:08 - I'm not flying the fucking plane, Mom.
02:11 (upbeat music)
02:13 ♪ Gonna go against the clock ♪
02:15 ♪ Gotta ♪
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