https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JehbGG4Wor8Was the entire movie just the coastal elite director and producers making fun of dumb crazy people in flyover country?
>>219776008yeah so humiliating that Mark made a movie with two bucks and three brain cells. it would've been really brave and stunning if he got down on his knees and gag on the directors cock while apologizing for being a pleb low income, low IQ audience member who DARED to dream of being a filmmaker.
>>219776008iirc the filmmakers were local as well and the film started off as a making of Northwestern but when that fell through it became its own thing.
Does everyone have brown gloves?
>>219776008movies like this, the disaster artist, and windy city heat all fall into the genre of "major studio bullying" where the whole movie is about making those who want to make or star in indie movies appear to be crazy. This reinforces the stranglehold on the product.It's especially absurd when you think that out of all the genres there seems to be the most indie horror.
>>219776008Pretty much, but the results ended up being quite heartwarming.
>>219776008I went into this movie thinking it was about these quirky, but lovable and passionate wannbe guys but then by like the mid point of the movie I realized that he was just a selfish, pretentious, arrogant, piece of shit leech. He keeps begging people around him for money to make his shitty proto-youtube video tier zombie slop fan fic movies and is in debt by the thousands to various family members and then goes on this drunken rant about how actually getting a job is beneath him because hes a genius artist or whatever.
>>219776008no
>>219776008Looks like a whiter version of Napoleon dynamite--if that's possible
>>219776377he has a job retardo
Are you that same guy who keeps trying to cancel Tim and Eric for “exploiting” retards who were all working actors before they even started?
>>219776377>goes on this drunken rant about how actually getting a job is beneath him because hes a genius artist or whatever.damn he's just like me
>>219776377No, he makes fun of factory workers who give up their dreams or worse, have none.Your post made me laugh, but American Movie has been a favorite of mine for 25 years. You just don’t get it. You’re not an artist.
>>219776368Not how it works at all. A real indie movie is still a big production, what Mark is doing is just amateur dabbling. That's more like shaming random people not to make films
RIP
>>219776377He was delivering papers and cleaning graveyards to just to have money to feed his kids, retard.
>>219776377What gets me is after the story ends he never completed another movie despite this being his passion.
>>219776979Mark won
>>219776979this is like saying "I can't believe Tenacious D didn't become world famous after the movie ends" it's not making fun of them as real people, but it is a satirical take on wild dreams of filmmaking.
>>219776849the scene where he is doing screams for ADR is so fucking kino and wholesome
>>219776849he played the camera guy in todd solondz's storytelling
>>219777116>>219776849https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maG10drGtvs
i wonder if he's tried the new whopper and how he feels about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOmCDR89Xg
>>219777276>here's your change>ok, very cool>large coke>ok, oh that's coolkek
>>219776377The movie literally starts with him delivering newspapers. He literally gets another job at a cemetery. You didn't even remotely watch this movie.
my entire extended family is from the same area and talk exactly like these guys and basically do the same shit. i got a kick out of the movie but the "let's laugh at the dummies" when they were brought on letterman and stuff was kinda annoying
>>219777330>>219777276Flame broiled man.
>>219776008>movie about a guy making an independent film in 1995How is that possible? I thought James Rolfe invented indie filmmaking.
>>219777633i'm surprised the similarities between mark and james aren't more widely discussed
>>219776008i don't think that's true at all, i think the movie has remained a cult classic for decades because of its immense empathy for its subjects
>>219777921some of the audience has empathy, sure. but a lot of the audience are laughing at them
>>219777633He invented something called "deep cocklust"
https://youtu.be/OSjOcCa1olkI love American Movie. It's so good.
>>219777164American Scooby>Scooby, Scooby, Scooby...
>>219777921>>219778949I think it depends on the viewer. To me American Movie isn't making fun of them. It's taking you along for the ride without comment. It's a brilliant movie.
>>219777633There have always been independent movies. Eraserhead, Easy Rider, Clerks were a few of the landmark ones. Reservoir Dogs is independent. Rolfe has always dropped American Movie references in his AVGN stuff. He misquotes some of it though. >>219779196The director, Chris Smith met Mark in a film class. They were peers. It's not like an established filmmaker sought out a doofus to make fun of.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACMtQtNSAahFh7GKo2Iw9rSM6O2xR4Ph&si=pI5Ox63kbMmReN_6
>>219779297>It's not like an established filmmaker sought out a doofus to make fun of.Well, yeah. I agree with you, but I'm saying people will see what they're conditioned to see. It's why some in the thread think everyone is laughing at the movie while you and I see the opposite.
>>219779297>>219779196of course i don't think that was their intent. i'm talking about when the movie found a big audience and how they viewed the movie. the letterman interviews annoy the hell out of me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVkoCNqveQMost kino doc about move making, but the best scenes are Mark combating his staunch, very Midwestern, Scandinavian family.
something about this movie, Crumb, and Welcome To The Dollhouse all connect to me in a weird way and they give similar vibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-7ieK5KxfU>ya think when Jesus was hangin' from a cross he thought it was fuckin natural?
>>219776794What do you consider an indie movie? I feel like you haven't seen Primer or Buffalo 66.Moonfall by Jerry Bruckheimer was self funded so technically that's an independent movie though you look ridiculous saying it.When you hear "indie" are you thinking of some Netflix a24 kind of a movie like Vampire seeking suicidal human or Juno or some Netflix movie starring Michael Cera?
>>219779297>Rolfe has always dropped American Movie references in his AVGN stuff. He misquotes some of it though.What's he misquote?
>>219776794Hollywood making “indie movie” a genre despite the fact they’re distributed by A24 and have funding was to try and kill anyone’s attempts outside of the Hollywood bubble. Because then they’d say “that’s not an indie movie, it’s just cheap.”
>>219777852American Movie is one of James's top 10 fav movies and certainly the movie he's referenced most often
