AMERICAN FICTION | Bookstore - Official Clip

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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AMERICAN FICTION | Bookstore - Official Clip
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[@echolot]

Napoleon Dynamite is having a really rough time

[@PerversionsOfNature]

Step up from relocating chickens.

[@broseywales5538]

Hootie be like, "not my blowfish."

[@svscared]

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

[@cheese4g]

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

[@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259]

😂😂😂 I was gonna say

[@Hatecrewdethrol]

It's technically correct but sounds so wrong

[@Bolsty7]

Same, I never thought about how "don't you dare" doesn't make sense.

[@dustbinfilms]

do other lines pay rent?

[@robert9016]

@@Bolsty7It’s not that it doesn’t make sense, it’s that phrasing like that comes from older forms of English. Other languages with a Germanic root, like German, Norwegian, Dutch, still use phrasing like that without contractions.

[@chadofmercia2448]

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]

Is discrimination but someone those people wants to say is not

[@HouseMDLover69]

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]

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

[@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH]

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]

@@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH is still a discrimination

[@tylerquebedeaux1867]

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]

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

[@MDoorpsy]

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.

[@parttimehuman]

Fantastic film. Enjoyed every minute if it.

[@ritchxmusic]

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

[@smithastley1616]

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.

[@dempseychannel1531]

Looks good

[@georginatoland]

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]

“Do NOT… you dare…” 😂

[@samosullivan1744]

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]

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

[@xIlNordiclIx]

What kind of author work are you doing?

[@MichaelABurstein]

I was outside Brookline Booksmith the day you filmed that!

[@analbinoblackbear]

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

[@minor1822]

@@analbinoblackbear Yeah I was there recently, was packed

[@gavinperry8433]

" Oh bingo " " no bingo NED !! " 😂😂😂

[@RobWright1981]

"Do not you dare."

[@rufarojunior]

What a terrific movie

[@theoshouldstoptalkingnow]

Let’s go Booksmith!!

[@jamesotto011]

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

[@robertgendron4683]

“N….No bingo, Ned” 😂😂😂

[@TrisStrudel]

Thank you, sincerely, for putting a comma before “Ned”.

[@Layla_r0se]

Entah cerita apa ni.. kadang2 kena tunjuk juga bila banyak sangat cerita2 mengarut berkumandang.. bila lama dah tak jumpa.. bila jumpa balik dah jauh sangat keadaannya bila bersama dulu.. oo.. dah kenal..😂😂😂

[@williamdinkel2304]

Its so surreal to me that the bookstore employee is a person I went to highschool with

[@ShindlerReal]

Bingo 😂

[@pauldockree9915]

Ryan Richard Doyle

[@waldnesstopicinternational5040]

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

[@themeat8624]

Is this Falling Down but for black dudes?

[@blackjac5000]

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

[@meherenow793]

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

[@henrygifford544]

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

[@blackjac5000]

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

[@BerniebidetWokeScold]

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]

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