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  • Опубліковано 12 гру 2023
  • Watch this official clip from #AmericanFiction, and see it in select theaters this Friday!
    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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  • @cheese4g
    @cheese4g 5 місяців тому +305

    I don't know why, but the line "Do not you dare" is living in my head rent-free.

  • @georginatoland
    @georginatoland 6 місяців тому +238

    I worked for Barnes & Noble in the 90s and Borders in the ‘00. This is absolutely the truth. We had no control over where books were assigned.
    In fact I had to explain to the manager at the B&N that “Afro-American” was not an appropriate name of a section.

  • @gonaye1
    @gonaye1 3 місяці тому +131

    “Do NOT… you dare…” 😂

  • @echolot
    @echolot 6 місяців тому +220

    Napoleon Dynamite is having a really rough time

    • @PerversionsOfNature
      @PerversionsOfNature 6 місяців тому +2

      Step up from relocating chickens.

    • @broseywales5538
      @broseywales5538 3 місяці тому

      Hootie be like, "not my blowfish."

    • @svscared
      @svscared 3 місяці тому

      I literally thought that was Jon Heder when I first saw this scene 😂

  • @samosullivan1744
    @samosullivan1744 5 місяців тому +74

    If Jeffrey Wright had fixed me with that look after “You don’t make the rules”, I probably would have melted onto the floor and then evaporated!
    Such a great actor!

  • @thebigshep
    @thebigshep Місяць тому +4

    As both an aspiring author and former chain bookstore employee, I declare this content relatable.

    • @xIlNordiclIx
      @xIlNordiclIx 27 днів тому

      What kind of author work are you doing?

  • @tylerquebedeaux1867
    @tylerquebedeaux1867 6 місяців тому +48

    Saw this at AMC on the Common and then walked all the way to Brookline Booksmith to have a moment…
    Also, I can happily report Percival Everett’s books (including Erasure) were in the fiction section!

    • @blackjac5000
      @blackjac5000 3 місяці тому +1

      Conversely, my area Barnes & Noble has Erasure shelved in Mysteries & Thriller.

    • @MDoorpsy
      @MDoorpsy 3 місяці тому +1

      Though, funnily enough, Percival Everett actually does have books that one could argue could go in African American studies, as they are about the black experience in America, including Erasure.

  • @gavinperry8433
    @gavinperry8433 17 днів тому +1

    " Oh bingo "
    " no bingo NED !! "
    😂😂😂

  • @MichaelABurstein
    @MichaelABurstein 6 місяців тому +37

    I was outside Brookline Booksmith the day you filmed that!

    • @analbinoblackbear
      @analbinoblackbear 5 місяців тому +3

      Lol the only problem with this clip is the fact that the Booksmith is empty.

    • @minor1822
      @minor1822 2 місяці тому +2

      @@analbinoblackbear Yeah I was there recently, was packed

  • @chadofmercia2448
    @chadofmercia2448 3 місяці тому +14

    My favourite part about bookstores is when they have a pile of books on a table with a sign saying "Black Authors" as if racially segregating books increase the likeliness of people reading them

    • @ntinosaggelopoulos6718
      @ntinosaggelopoulos6718 3 місяці тому

      Is discrimination but someone those people wants to say is not

    • @Chillllllllllllllllllllllll
      @Chillllllllllllllllllllllll 3 місяці тому +7

      This is like when streaming services list certain movies and TV shows as "black stories", like you got The Boondocks and Snowfall in the same category, show me what these other shows are ACTUALLY about 💀💀

    • @Blackhwk13
      @Blackhwk13 2 місяці тому +3

      Probably make me less likely to buy them in fact. I would just perceive them as filled with some racial agenda or something

    • @GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH
      @GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH 2 місяці тому +2

      It works, unfortunately. I studied English in University and I'm afraid there were students who would exclusively study books by Black authors. Afro-centrism is a very real school of thought.

    • @ntinosaggelopoulos6718
      @ntinosaggelopoulos6718 2 місяці тому

      @@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH is still a discrimination

  • @RobWright1981
    @RobWright1981 3 місяці тому +18

    "Do not you dare."

  • @parttimehuman
    @parttimehuman 5 місяців тому +12

    Fantastic film. Enjoyed every minute if it.

  • @rufarojunior
    @rufarojunior 6 місяців тому +20

    What a terrific movie

  • @jamesotto011
    @jamesotto011 3 місяці тому +2

    00:01 How to act like you're expecting to get stopped before you're actually asked.

  • @robertgendron4683
    @robertgendron4683 2 місяці тому +1

    “N….No bingo, Ned” 😂😂😂

  • @theoshouldstoptalkingnow
    @theoshouldstoptalkingnow 3 місяці тому +5

    Let’s go Booksmith!!

  • @ritchxmusic
    @ritchxmusic 3 місяці тому +1

    One of the best movies I've seen in a while!

  • @waldnesstopicinternational5040
    @waldnesstopicinternational5040 6 місяців тому

    I would have buy all collection of the fiction books to read it 😅

  • @dempseychannel1531
    @dempseychannel1531 3 місяці тому

    Looks good

  • @smithastley1616
    @smithastley1616 3 місяці тому

    I'm going to be saying "Do not you dare" from now on and there is nothing any of you can do to stop me.

  • @ShindlerReal
    @ShindlerReal 20 днів тому

    Bingo 😂

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 20 днів тому

    Ryan Richard Doyle

  • @themeat8624
    @themeat8624 3 місяці тому +4

    Is this Falling Down but for black dudes?

    • @blackjac5000
      @blackjac5000 3 місяці тому +1

      No, it's the Steve Hely novel How I Became A Famous Novelist combined with why Wayne Brady did that Dave Chappelle sketch.

    • @meherenow793
      @meherenow793 3 місяці тому +2

      "not economically viable";
      maybe you missed that part.

    • @henrygifford544
      @henrygifford544 10 днів тому

      @@blackjac5000 The book it's based on, Erasure by Percival Everett, was written before the one you mention

    • @blackjac5000
      @blackjac5000 9 днів тому

      @@henrygifford544 As I learned later on. The one I mentioned has a lot of parallels to it, though.

  • @BerniebidetWokeScold
    @BerniebidetWokeScold 3 місяці тому +7

    duplicate story line of this movie exists : Its a documentary Called :
    CREATED EQUAL: CLARENCE THOMAS IN HIS OWN WORDS
    His story is a reflection of the plot of American Fiction, except Clarence Thomas had to live thru the bigotry & systematic racism of low expectation Thomas's life. Its amazing to me the cognitive dissonance that people have due to politics, if you know what Thomas went thru in the the 1970s & 1960s this movie is is minor reflection of his path in life. Wake the F up & listen to people & thier story, you might LEARN why some people arrive at the places they do later in life.

    • @RatherCrunchyMuffin
      @RatherCrunchyMuffin 3 місяці тому

      Oh, Clarence Thomas was persecuted and that's why he accepts bribes and luxury vacations from corporate donars