The Films of Alexander Payne - C/D

feel like paynes films are p blatantly abt 'white culture' - like i somewhat give them a pass for their verisimilitude - not that its not in some sense stylized and ott - theyre just you know v observant and cutting - tho i dont doubt that irl thered be more not white people living the lyfe depicted in the films

let's go through his movies and pick out the characters that should clearly have been played by actors of color

should prob have its own board tbh

i love black payne

but you don't understand, that's the name of my dog

http://nyc3img.soundclick.com/27/images/b/band/blackpayne.jpg?version=107

http://c2.ac-postto.myspacecdn.com/postto01/1/3d44e284aadc4e5cac47ed800fcf199a/s.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGX28fcdCsI/TbiZ3H7OZiI/AAAAAAAAVug/A-NjuHEdHIc/s1600/Tyler-Perrys-House-of-Payne.jpg

lol

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6136/6019991227_7b34110b5d.jpg via flickr

:D

lol

http://videogum.com/310102/being-white-is-hard-the-descendants-trailer-you-guys/movies/trailer/

Jeb | Posted on May 26th

Alexander Payne is white people’s answer to Tyler Perry.

that looks good!

srsly?

hey i like this guys movies what can i say

has clooney ever played an earnest sad sack before?

Solaris? Up in the Air?

Michael Clayton?

I mean, that's what he does now. He's the new menopausal William Holden.

i liked sideways, not sure why it seems to make people so mad. i havent seen it since it came out though

i think i'm the only person it made mad itt. lots of reviewers loved it.

not that i saw it, but wasn't clooney a superconfident jerk in up in the air?

icey, no, i love sideyways but this doesn't look good!

not that i saw it, but wasn't clooney a superconfident jerk in up in the air?

― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 11:01 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

mostly but SPOILER he becomes sad ;_; by the end

haha fuck that movie afaic

i didn't see the movies alfred listed but this character reads as more of a "loser" than those other roles

the pilot for Hung is kind of my 2nd favorite Payne flick after Election

― Autism Alamac (some dude), Sunday, August 7, 2011 3:26 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

hung was surprisingly solid for that first season

surprisingly solid

lol

i think i'm the only person it made mad itt. lots of reviewers loved it.

not that i saw it, but wasn't clooney a superconfident jerk in up in the air?

― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 11:01 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've done this elsewhere on ilx but god do i hate this movie.

yeah lots of people hate it because they h8 hilarious things

h8 u, for example

lol pwn?

i actually like barcelona a lot, possibly more than metropolitan. sideways is possibly the only time my objection to a movie has been I Hate These Characters And Hope They Die. like, not the only time that's ever happened, but the only time it was a problem. i dunno.

the characters in the descendants are white because they are the titular descendants of missionaries, apparently, not that i know who else is in it or if they're unwhite or played by rob schneider or what.

a man flopping impotently down the street in a pair of boat shoes after having just learned that his wife cheated on him.

lol

really like the short that closes Paris Je t'aime, I think it's called 14 Arrondissement.

about shidt

so apparently there is/was a japanese remake of sideways, "saidoweizu"

it's still set mostly in the US

http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1236373/

Just noticed that there's a screening of Nebraska here in a couple of weeks, with Payne introducing. It looks a little like The Straight Story from reading a description.

He sure does like road trip movies, doesn't he? Skeptical of this, because I only really like his first two movies. But I do like Bruce Dern, so maybe...

Surprising Alexander Payne fact of the day: He co-wrote Jurassic Park 3.

And that Adam Sandler gay marriage comedy.

seeing it this week

might want a few "xposts" there Morbs

If any NYers are burning to see Nebraska tomw night, my scheduled guest can't go...

meh, a real mixed bag. Good performances (Stacy Keach!); better than About Schmidt, at least.

People are going overboard w/ the "condescending" stuff tho; I'm sure there's human waste like this on display on the Great Plains. And in Jersey.

I don't bet the naysayers would disagree. It's just: do they belong in movies?

Of course they do. I don't think Payne hates Nebraskans more than Altman hates Nasvillians.

Not to mention a crtic I respect writing that Dern's character has Alzheimers when um, he is explicitly described as not having it.

"He believes what people tell him" has metaphorical heft too, I think.

Oh for sure I'm going into this with reasonably high hopes that this will finally be the Payne movie that brings him back to his '90s greatness. But any comparisons to that piece of shit About Schmidt, even favorable against it, don't bode well.

Election is as smarmy in its own way as anything he's done since.

As usual there isn't a Payne film the NYT won't love or compare to Sturges.