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American Fiction Movie Featurette - Page to Screen (2023) - US Release Date: December 15, 2023 Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross Director : Cord Jefferson Synopsis: 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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00:00 Monk, your books are good, but they're not popular.

00:03 American fiction is based on the novel

00:06 Erasure by Percival Everett.

00:07 Editors, they want a black book.

00:09 They have a black book. I'm black, and it's my book.

00:12 You know what I mean.

00:14 When I read the book, I felt the material deep in my bones,

00:18 and so I knew almost immediately that I wanted to adapt it.

00:21 I just want to rub their noses in it.

00:24 [laughs]

00:26 It's dealing with some super relevant age-old themes

00:31 along with a deep thread of comedy and irony running through it.

00:35 You sold your book?

00:36 No.

00:37 As soon as I met Korg, it was clear that he understood

00:40 the spirit of the novel.

00:41 It's a joke, the most lucrative joke you've ever told.

00:44 He took my material and made it his own.

00:47 Is this based on your actual life?

00:49 Yeah, you think some bitch-ass college boy

00:53 can come up with that shit?

00:55 No, no. No, I don't.

00:56 There's something delightful in the simplicity of this story

01:02 and what it's actually trying to comment on.

01:05 I thought it was really funny and rooted in realness.

01:11 I am thrilled to read a BIPOC man harmed by our carceral state.

01:15 It explores identity, culture, race, family

01:20 in a way that I think is really interesting.

01:22 People want to love you, Monk.

01:24 You should let them love all of you.

01:26 The work Korg has made here is a fine piece of art.

01:29 Once the screen goes dark, the lobby will be filled

01:32 with conversation about this film.

01:34 Yes! The dumber I behave, the richer I get.

01:36 There's levity, but also an element of surprise.

01:39 That, to me, is really keeping with the essence of the book.

01:43 # Yeah, I'm rolling with the thunder

01:46 # Oh, oh... #

01:48 # Oh! #

01:49 (CLICKS)

01:51 (MUSIC ENDS)

01:54 (MUSIC ENDS)

01:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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