{"id":71645,"date":"2024-01-04T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2038761"},"modified":"2024-01-04T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:39:24","slug":"why-american-fiction-misses-instant-classic-status-by-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/why-american-fiction-misses-instant-classic-status-by-inches\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018American Fiction\u2019 Misses Instant Classic Status by Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d is a blistering takedown of Identity Politics<\/a> that keeps getting interrupted by a lesser story it cares too much about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Wright plays a black professor who can\u2019t find a publisher for his latest novel. So he goes the lowest common denominator route with shocking results.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as sharply realized as the trailer (and early buzz) suggest, but first-time writer\/director Cord Jefferson lacks faith in this concept.<\/p>\n

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Thelonius \u201cMonk\u201d Ellison (Wright) is struggling to fit in with today’s literary world. He\u2019s got talent to burn, but publishers keep rejecting his latest novel. It’s too high brow for today\u2019s consumer, they sniff.<\/p>\n

So Monk tries to follow in the footsteps of a fellow black author (Issa Rae) who struck it rich with a story straight from the \u2018hood. Guns. Drugs. Baby mamas. Every negative black stereotype you can imagine, and then some.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s demeaning, Monk says, one reason he quickly pens a similar tale called, \u201cMy Pafology.\u201d It\u2019s his way of flipping the literary world the bird and letting his anger out at the same time.<\/p>\n

To Monk’s shock, a bidding war over the book ensues.<\/p>\n