{"id":9082,"date":"2023-12-15T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/american-fiction-anatomy-of-a-scene\/15\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:36:56","slug":"american-fiction-anatomy-of-a-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/american-fiction-anatomy-of-a-scene\/15\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Fiction\u2019 | Anatomy of a Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"site-content\">\n<div>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: <!-- -->\u2018American Fiction\u2019 | Anatomy of a Scene<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"video-header\">\n<div class=\"css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0\"><button tabindex=\"100\" class=\"css-1rtlxy\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"close\"><svg width=\"60\" height=\"60\" viewbox=\"0 0 60 60\" fill=\"none\"><circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"30\" r=\"30\" fill=\"white\" fill-opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2\">\n<div aria-labelledby=\"modal-title\" role=\"region\">\n<header class=\"css-1bzlfz\">\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"css-1igvuto\"><span>Back<\/span><\/button><\/header>\n<div class=\"css-uzyn7p\">\n<div class=\"css-1vxywau\">\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-9wqu2x\">\u2018American Fiction\u2019 | Anatomy of a Scene<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">The screenwriter and director Cord Jefferson narrates a sequence from \u201cAmerican Fiction,\u201d starring Jeffrey Wright.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cMy name is Cord Jefferson and I\u2019m the writer and director of the film \u2018American Fiction.\u2019 The scene is our lead character, Monk, played by Jeffrey Wright, is sort of frustrated by the lack of imagination that people have when it comes to the stories that people are allowed to tell about Black life. And so in this fit of rage when one of his books is not selling and he\u2019s sort of seeing the ways in which culture latches on to these kind reductive views of Blackness, he\u2019s decided to write his own version of that hyper-stereotypical Black story. Also in the scene is Keith David as Willy the Wonker and Okieriete Onaodowan as Van Go in the scene that is manifesting before Monk\u2019s eyes as he writes it in the Word document.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t shoot me partner. Come on now.\u201d \u201cSo this film is adapted from Percival Everett\u2019s novel \u2018Erasure\u2019 which was published in 2001. So this scene is not in the novel. If you\u2019ve read \u2018Erasure\u2019, you\u2019ll know that the entirety of \u2018My Pafology,\u2019 this sort of prank book that Monk writes is published within the novel \u2018Erasure.\u2019 I knew that that\u2019s not very cinematic I didn\u2019t want to show the character of Monk just sort of sitting there pounding at his keyboard furiously and I think that we\u2019ve all seen that enough. And I don\u2019t think it gets at the gravity of what the character is writing particularly in this instance, when you really needed to understand what it was that he was putting down onto those pages.\u201d \u201cLook at my face. Look at my midnight Black comple \u2014 no, that\u2019s not right.\u201d \u201cWhat did you want to say? You can say it better than that. Right, come on. What do you want? Think about it, Van Go. Look at my face. Look at my cold Black skin and then look at your own. Look at my Black eyes and look at your own. Look at my big Black lips and look at your own. I\u2019s your daddy whether you like it or not?\u201d \u201cShut up!\u201d \u201cSo I did intend this scene to be funny and I think that the characters play it that way. The thing that became interesting as we were shooting the scene is that Ok and Keith David are such great actors that you have this inclination to take them seriously because they\u2019re such wonderful performers. And so I think that I wanted it to be comedic but I never had a desire to make that comedy obvious.\u201d \u201cI think now will come some sort of dumb melodramatic sob story where you highlight your broken interiority. Something like, I don\u2019t know \u2014 I hates this man. I hates my mama and I hates myself.\u201d \u201cYeah, the intention was to be funny but without saying like oh, this needs to be played super broad. Ultimately, I wanted it to be a little restrained and I think that, in fact, that makes the scene better.\u201d \u201cAnd I see eyes that don\u2019t care what happens tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"playlist-block\">\n<p>Recent episodes in<!-- --> <span class=\"css-1galvr2\">Anatomy of a Scene<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1rdxns7\">\n<p>Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1wapnqs\" aria-labelledby=\"Anatomy-of-a-Scene\">\n<div class=\"css-1gce877\"><button class=\"css-pfkc15\" type=\"button\" id=\"load-more\" aria-pressed=\"false\">Show more videos from <!-- -->Anatomy of a Scene<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/movies\/100000009226309\/american-fiction-scene.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: &lsquo;American Fiction&rsquo; | Anatomy of a Scene transcript Back transcript &lsquo;American Fiction&rsquo; | Anatomy of a Scene The screenwriter<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/american-fiction-anatomy-of-a-scene\/15\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}