End of the Tour

[brightly_lit]

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. ;-)

Comments

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I think that certain films end up fanfic-less for the same reason that I watch 8 different shows ranging from BigBang Theory to Castle and I really only write for the ones I'm established in. I *think* about fic constantly, every scene gives me a juicy idea for a story but the brain and body just aren't willing, lol!!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the passion has to be there ... but purely statistically speaking, if there are SO MANY people passionate enough about SPN, Marvel, etc., to write soo much fic in those fandoms, wouldn't there have to be at least a few people passionate enough about End of the Tour to write fic for it?

THIS WORLD, IT MAKES NO SENSE.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

None what so ever! I've had a Strictly Ballroom fic on my hard drive since before I even entered Fandom O_O and yet it sits and languishes, lol! One day I will finish it :D

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're gonna have sex now." THAT'S WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FANFIC<\i>

Oh, God, that made me laugh out loud. You need to write that fanfic, maybe.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

SO. TEMPTING.

Uh-oh. Now you've done it.

[ladyjane]

"If it exists, there is porn of it."
"If there is no porn of it, it will be written."
"If you thought of it, you must write it." (Seriously, the images won't leave your brain until you get them onto paper the screen.)

Them's the rules!