End of the Tour
We just got done watching The End of the Tour, the biopic starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg based on writer David Foster Wallace and writer/journalist David Lipsky's little roadtrip together on one of Wallace's book tours in the 1990s. I've wanted to see it since it came out, because I've been fascinated by the myth of Wallace since I first started reading about it (mostly in NYRB, in essays by people who knew him), and because I've been fascinated by Segel since Freaks and Geeks. Sure enough, it's an amazing movie, beautifully shot, written, directed, and acted, and sooo much richer and deeper than modern movies ever get. It was the first movie in a long time where I felt fuller after watching it than emptier.
But I tell you what, coming from the fandom perspective as I can't help but do now, there were no less than four moments in that movie where agonizingly lonely Wallace and guy-crush-for-Wallace-on-steroids Lipsky locked eyes and I was like, "Oh, they're gonna have sex now." THAT'S WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FANFIC. Which begs a question I can't stop wondering about, which is, why ISN'T there fanfic for movies like End of the Tour? I mean, Eisenberg and Segel are pretty hot, right? Hot, young, tortured, lonely guys--artists, no less--you know, alone on the road, no one will know .... But I have looked it up on AO3, and not ONE fanfic. Not one. I really don't get it.
Anyway, End of the Tour, good movie, made for fic, none exists ... you know what to do. ;-)
But I tell you what, coming from the fandom perspective as I can't help but do now, there were no less than four moments in that movie where agonizingly lonely Wallace and guy-crush-for-Wallace-on-steroids Lipsky locked eyes and I was like, "Oh, they're gonna have sex now." THAT'S WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FANFIC. Which begs a question I can't stop wondering about, which is, why ISN'T there fanfic for movies like End of the Tour? I mean, Eisenberg and Segel are pretty hot, right? Hot, young, tortured, lonely guys--artists, no less--you know, alone on the road, no one will know .... But I have looked it up on AO3, and not ONE fanfic. Not one. I really don't get it.
Anyway, End of the Tour, good movie, made for fic, none exists ... you know what to do. ;-)