Ironic Man (2008)
Overview
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Diablo Cody
Release Date: The future
Genere: Idiosyncratic Situational Edutainment
Tagline: Isn't it ironic ... don't you think?
Plot Outline: Chad "The Big D" Deboyne (Jason Schwartzman) is a down-and-out, part-time blogger/bassist/percussionist/rapper/record store clerk/vinyl junkie/DJ/Big Star expert/cybergoth slacker. Working at Revolver Records, he secretly learns his boss (Bill Murray) plans to sell the store to a development corporation for Orange Julius. Chad shares his knowledge with his co-worker girlfriend (Ellen Page). Together, the couple begin blogging about the store's imminent demise. In a nod to post-post modern deconstructionism, the couple form a Facebook group to save the store. Along the way, Deboyne finds an extremely rare and highly sought Velvet Underground single on eBay. He buys it for pennies knowing the record's real value could pay for the store. The couple continue their discreet mission to save the store from development, enlisting friends from her raw vegan cooking class and his weekend cricket team. Eventually Page's character is fired and she begins a new job at a lesbian PoMo coffee shop called The Bean. Just before the store is sold, DeBoyne sells the prized Velvet Underground single to a record collector - Julius Freed III. Freed (Owen Wilson) is the heir to the Orange Julius fortune. After buying the record store, DeBoyne promises to stock only records from independent labels and local band demos.
MPAA: Rated R for language, adult situations and a Nico soundtrack.
Running Time: 120 minutes just like the MTV show, but not really.
Sound Mix: Lo-fi, edgy.
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12 comments:
you realize, of course, that you could get this movie made.
you had me up 'til the Nico bit. I won't see anything that has to do with Nico. fuck that flat pitch euro bitch.
I would love it. It's got a real Michel Gaundry feel to it. But it needs a different title.
Will it have one mediocre-but-quirky soundtrack that becomes popular and then, four months later, a second soundtrack that is mostly remixes and hip dialogue from the movie?
doodlecat blew her ass out this morning, meowing and running back and forth to the toilet for over an hour.
much better movie, i think.
I'm not on for small indie platform releases, usually. But this movie looks really cool.
Jason Schwartzman still has the honor of my favorite line from a movie.
Rushmore: (1998)
Max Fischer: I like your nurse's uniform, guy.
Dr. Peter Flynn: These are O.R. scrubs.
Max Fischer: O, R they?
HAHA!
Haven't I seen this movie already?
I would watch it if you promised me shaky, hand-held camera work.
The store goes out of business five minutes later.
I can't believe they cast Owen Wilson as Freed. That part was originally written for Luke Wilson.
I hear Ellen Page now regrets being talked into shaving her head.
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