Comments on: David Foster Wallace Estate Not Cool With Jason Segel & Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The End Of The Tour’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-20140423/ Fri, 13 May 2016 07:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Rob https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-20140423/#comment-33964 Fri, 13 May 2016 07:40:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-86799/#comment-33964 coming soon to a cinema near you: David Foster Wallace: Cult Writer!

lolz.

]]> By: Uppsala https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-20140423/#comment-33962 Fri, 13 May 2016 07:40:42 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-86799/#comment-33962 Segel a brilliant choice? impressive physical resemblance? Come on. Put a photo of the two side by side… and that\’s before we get into his "acting" career.
How mindless do you think you\’re readers are?

]]> By: BERT GARDNER https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-20140423/#comment-33963 Fri, 13 May 2016 07:40:42 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/david-foster-wallace-estate-not-cool-with-jason-segel-jesse-eisenbergs-the-end-of-the-tour-86799/#comment-33963 I have to say, this is one of the few level-headed news entries I've seen about the statement from the DFW estate, or maybe it's just that most other outlets simply quoted the churlish and hotly-worded statement itself without offering any perspective or commentary, so bravo.

Anyone who would decry the movie sight unseen is either simply opposed to a movie about DFW on principle (a pretty difficult principle to support, unless one objects to movies about actual humans in general–then again, that would also be difficult to support) or else is obviously unfamiliar with Ponsoldt's previous work, particularly his deft mix of drama and humor and the thoughtful performances he regularly gets from his actors. Similarly, the apparently knee-jerk rejection of Jason Segel in anything other than the kinds of roles he's previously played betrays a simplistic view of what acting is and a kind of stubborn blindness with regard to potential.

That said, you do repeat the common error of referring to "The End of the Tour" as a biopic. As anyone who's read the book on which its based can tell you, it is not in any respect a biography of David Foster Wallace. That is, unless one considers "All the President's Men" to be a biography of Carl Bernstein, or "Melvin and Howard" to be a biography of Howard Hughes.

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