The Films of Alexander Payne - C/D

whit stillman is way better than this guy. last days of disco 4e.

if you didn't enjoy last days of disco you should have just danced through it, it is jiving

lol now why tf would this alexander payne thread be going off on a quiet sunday afternoon

its raining outside!!!

raining racism

a torrential downpour of white privilege

icey who do u think is more racist: alexander payne or paul simon?

i said he made white films for white people, people objected, we caviled, nobody had much heart or stake so the discussion crawled under the jungle gym where it's sullenly drawing in the dirt with a stick

blame it on the payne

haha

Hey, that's my stick.

fwiw i don't object to the assertion that his movies are largely populated with and consumed by omg white people, i just feel like singling this one guy out (i guess because most of the comparable contemporaries are commercially successful enough that studios think it necessary to shoehorn a sassy black friend into their flicks) for the "super-whiteness of his oeuvre" is kind of a loaded and strangely tacky way to address the generally complex and worthwhile subject of race in contemporary film

although i guess we can tackle the insufficiency of his writing for female characters by saying his movies are mega-penile or something

superwhite mega-penile

the milieu depicted in the film is obnoxious, but i remember enjoying sideways and thinking it was pretty funny.

i didn't mean to turn you on, alfred

i'm nothing if not loaded and tacky, it's true

http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451af1569e2010535d69fd7970c-800wi

"Remember when I asked that black guy if he liked Sideways?"-Liz Lemon, hyperwhite.

like it's a good point, some dude, that AP's no worse than a lot of his peers. but there's something more blatant? tossed-off? about race, society, gender, whatever, in payne's films that is espesh irksome to me. david lynch as well. just a casually all-white cast in movies that are supposed to be about, you know, the all-caps American experience.

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