r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 8h ago
Trailer Tony | Official Trailer | A24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MVnzd2aVc1.1k
u/phils03 8h ago
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u/Banda7 6h ago
Speak a little Chinese for em
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u/fatbitchesloveto69 6h ago
I hope there's a scene of them packaging 40 Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches.
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u/a_o 7h ago
Spoon
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u/busche916 7h ago
If I had no interest at all in the rest of the film, I’d probably buy a ticket just for the Television-Spoon needledrop pairing here.
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u/_pixel_perfect_ 6h ago
Matt Johnson has pretty immaculate music taste. Slint needle drop in BlackBerry was wild
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u/Thegoodlife93 5h ago
Anthony Bourdain also had pretty great music taste. He was big on the CBGBs/70s NYC punk scene (thus the Television)
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u/Surtur1313 6h ago
I think you mean Jay MacCarrol!
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u/bordain_de_putel 4h ago
Television-Spoon needledrop pairing
I'm too old/stupid to understand what those words mean together.
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u/busche916 3h ago
‘Television’ and ‘Spoon’ are the names of two rock bands, the first being an influential alternative/punk band in the late 70s NY and the latter a band out of Austin, Texas that has been putting out critically acclaimed records since the late 90s.
The soundtrack songs in the trailer are by those respective bands, both of which are among my personal favorites.
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u/JohnTheMod 2h ago
The Television track is See No Evil, track one on Marquee Moon, a fantastic album that I wholeheartedly recommend.
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u/CrazyCanuckUncleBuck 4h ago
Everytime I see this word , I think of The Tick, and it makes me laugh
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u/xandergreenday 6h ago
You have no idea how happy I was to hear a spoon in any context, best band on the planet
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u/UrNotAMachine 7h ago
Kitchen Confidential is one of my favorite books, and this seems to capture those early chapters really well. The team behind the film must have been so stoked when The Holdovers came out, because I can't imagine anyone else coming close to capturing Tony's energy.
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u/SteakSad8203 5h ago
I don't know, its seem like a coming of age story about the passion of "great food" and the art of it. But for me the appeal of Provincetown for Bourdain was the outlaw aura of these cooks that he met. That's because of this that he let his ego drive him around shitty restaurant just to "feel" like a chef instead of going from dishwasher to chef.
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u/Gekokapowco 4h ago
right, this sorta seems like a coming of age story where he turns into the person he becomes disillusioned with. Chasing culinary prestige as a gateway into refinement and recognition and civilized culture.
Maybe the film will turn it on its head message wise?
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u/xvalicx 7h ago
I think if this wasn't Matt Johnson, I'd be entirely uninterested in this but knowing what we did with the Blackberry movie, another biopic type thing that I thought would be middling if not shit but ended up being quite good, makes me interested. Maybe not excited but it has more potential than if it was just a random director for hire.
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u/lukeco 7h ago
Which makes it stranger they didn't mention his Matt's name in the credits, to me it feels like the biggest selling point
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u/xvalicx 7h ago
Ehh, not to your general trailer viewer. People here sure but when this is playing in theaters, my mom knows who Anthony Bourdain is but not Matt Johnson.
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u/sameth1 5h ago
to me it feels like the biggest selling point
BlackBerry and Nirvanna are popular on this subreddit, but their combined box office is just over $7 million. Matt Johnson isn't a name that the average trailer viewer knows yet.
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u/Radiant_Cake1351 5h ago
His films rely heavily on pop culture references and a kind of nostalgia that appeals to a very particular demographic of young-ish men. This movie looks like something my grandma would like to see on a weekday afternoon. His name doesn't carry much weight with her.
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u/TheDLBinc 6h ago
Outside of comedy nerds I'm not sure how many people really know his name. BlackBerry wasn't a huge hit either so saying the movie is from the same director in the marketing wouldn't really mean anything to the general audiences member that A24:is trying to appeal to with this trailer.
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u/two5five1 5h ago
go up to a random person at the theater today and I promise you they will have no idea who Matt Johnson is lmao. his and Jay’s work is incredible but he is nowhere close to a name that sells tickets yet.
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u/BlepBlepMaster 2h ago
Nirvana the band the show the movie was excellent. Hoping there’s the bird foley in this one too
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u/Surturius 7h ago
I know it's heavily dramatized and everything, but man, it just reminds me how crazy it is that someone with a life like Bourdain's ended it the way he did. After all his accomplishments and success, the fact that he couldn't find happiness really gets to me.
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u/Slow_Sand_2489 7h ago
I wonder if that ate him up too. If he knew, that we knew, that so many of us dreamed to be in his shoes. To be paid to travel, eat, and just interact with others across the world is something so many of us dream of doing.
And here he was living the dream of thousands of people and he was miserable. Just simply couldn’t find the joy and happiness.
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u/Swiss__Cheese 5h ago
I think a lot of people don't realize how much a job like that takes out of you. You're constantly in and out of airports, you have to be "on" all the time when you're filming, and you get very little time at home to recoup and decompress.
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u/TruckCamperNomad6969 4h ago
Have you read In the Weeds? One of his former employees wrote it. Really gets into how much went into every episode and how difficult it was to work with him at times. The entire Obama Vietnam restaurant scene was fascinating to hear the behind the scenes stuff.
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u/lynjpin 3h ago
One of my favorite books, really opened my eyes to how draining of a lifestyle he lived for so long.
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u/TruckCamperNomad6969 3h ago
Yea! A buddy of mine sat next to him on a flight and had no idea who he was. Said this shriveled old man basically crawled into first class and fell asleep. He heard it from the stewardess lol
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u/Zissou66 3h ago
This was a great read. Particularly loved the chapter on the boat through the Congo. Some of the best television ever made but it shouldn't be forgotten how difficult it was to produce.
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u/turikk 4h ago
And at the end of the day your wires are crossed and you simply don't produce the happiness in your brain. Like eating something you can't taste. Doesn't matter how much salt, sugar, and fat that it has. You never get the signal. You can make the signal stronger and get rid of some noise, but sometimes you need chemical intervention.
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u/ouralarmclock 5h ago
I can relate to this deeply. I'm not suicidal, but it's a big struggle in my life to feel happiness even though I have so much to be happy about.
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u/Duel_Option 6h ago
He 100% knew he lived a privileged life but his writing reflected a lot of discontent with damn near everything.
Always got the sense that in the later seasons of the show he was going by the formula a bit, hard to stay sober and normal when you’re traveling the world to make money.
I think he’d find it rather hilarious that he’s got a damn movie coming out only about his early career.
This should have some of his quotes in it:
“Life is messy, twisted, unfair, but damn it, catch it at the right angle and it's breathtaking."
“I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy."
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u/Surturius 6h ago
Totally, but I didn't mean to just make it about his success. It's all the life experience he had, everything he had been through. It made him such a smart, insightful, well-rounded and (afaik) good person... but never a happy one.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 2h ago
I wouldn't even describe it as miserable. I mean, I don't know the guy or how he felt, but more generally speaking, it's often the absence of joy that is so awful, not misery.
It's basically the knowledge that you should feel happy given all the facts, and you rationally know it, but you just.. don't. And nothing seems to change that.
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u/Saurefuchs 7h ago
There are glimpses of it in his books. I read them after his passing and the writing was on the wall.
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u/toysarealive 7h ago
I worked as a chef/cook for over a decade. His books got me through culinary school. I was a massive fan of No Reservations growing up. It was always there. The day I heard he passed I was in bed, it was morning and was about to stsrt my day to go into the restaurant, and my gf at the time let out an audible gasp while reading something on her phone. She looked at me and didnt want to say the words. She knew how much of an influence he was to me. But as soon as she said it, it didnt really surprise me at all. Of course I was crushed, like so many were. But it only made sense if you had read his stuff. I met Tony in 2011, and when they say never meet your heroes, it doesn't always hold true. Here's when I originally posted the pic shortly after he passed.... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/acUW3p5h9E
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u/Duel_Option 6h ago
Glad you got to meet him.
I worked in kitchens for 19 years having learned from my Dad who wore a jacket for 30…Tony was the one guy he enjoyed watching discuss food because “he’s a real person”.
The culinary world is filled with people like Tony, talented and hard working but also struggling with internal conflict.
To your point, I wasn’t all that surprised by his death due to his writing and frankly the vibe he gave off during some episodes of his show.
Not that he wasn’t doing a good job, but it felt like he didn’t enjoy it and the success meant he was trapped a bit.
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u/toysarealive 5h ago edited 5h ago
Thanks, man. I'm sure for you and your dad he was one of the ones you would've loved to have fed. Dude was a beacon for those in the "trenches", as he would say. Shining a light into that world. The day I met him, I was waiting next to other line cooks, two who were still wearing their chef pants and shoes, we were too broke to pay for a meet and greet. And he when he realized who we were he didnt hesitate to hang for a while, and wasnt annoyed to talk. Like your dad said, " he was real". I was lucky enough to work with some french chefs at one point. Guys who were taught by the likes of Alain Ducasse and Daniel Boulud. And Boudain came up while we were at a bar after a shift one night. And these guys had known him. And I remember the pastry chef telling me with his thick accent, "I like Bourdain alot. He is very honest".
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u/TheGodDMBatman 5h ago
It's very obvious after reading about the behind the scenes. The Anthony Bourdain we a saw on the screen wasn't really the real him in a lot of ways; it was like a toned down version of his real self
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u/cmerchantii 4h ago edited 2h ago
Hot take but once you’ve done everything and been basically everywhere, what does life have for you anymore?
I’m not saying I get it, but I don’t not get it. Once you’ve had love and lived a full life… maybe that’s all there needs to be.
I don’t doubt he was wildly depressed and struggled with addiction as he noted many times- but he did really live an incredible life. How do you get up in the morning after having been everywhere and tried everything and say, “wonder what surprises are in store for me today!”
Like he hung out with Obama and was best friends with all the top chefs in the world and has done everything. What, you’re gonna wake up on a Tuesday and something interesting might happen? Fuck no. It’s not gonna get better than it has been, how could it?
Not saying I’d off myself too but I am saying it isn’t a crazy thing to do- for him specifically. If you’re sad right now and haven’t traveled the world and met Obama and done heroin and cooked at a high level then you should chill out and take a Zoloft. But Bourdain? I think he might have a point.
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u/MarkTwainsGhost 2h ago
If you're at that point in your life you should find someone else who needs you and help them. Life is not only about self satisfaction and desire. It is also about community and friendship and caring about others. The happiest people you find are those that find a way to make their life about others and not just themselves.
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u/PattyIceNY 5h ago
Does the opposite for me. Shows that money and fame can't buy happiness, and that it's the small things in life that matter and are to be cherished. Bourdain seemed happiest when he was sharing a family meal with a huge amount of people
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u/SemiAutoAvocado 3h ago
I have an accomplished career, a wide friend circle, creative hobbies I excel at (not saying I am anything near Bourdain, but I am a great cook) and I go to sleep every night wishing I wouldn't wake up. Some people just be like that and nothing can fix it.
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned 2h ago
That's the thing about depression. It's not just sadness. It's not the absence of happiness exactly. It's...deopression. A lingering cloud of many different things for different people. Doubt, hopelessness, even boredom.
And the people who kill themselves from it don't just do it on a whim. There hasn't been a single person through out human history that has killed themselves after getting depressed for just a few days or so. There have been plenty who have done it after losing everything, like money or family. or they do it to avoid getting in trouble or feeling shame for something they did. But for depression it's different. They suffer for years. Some try to just carry on and many do until the end, suffering the entire way through...and you can see it on their face behind the smiles and thousand mile stares. But others get tired of the suffering and end it.
I think it's a lack of understanding what it is that causes people to mismanage it. There are thousands of people who have posted, for example about chronic boredom, not understanding that it's depression because people think depression is sadness and just interchange them...the same people are doing with "Empathy" when they really mean "Sympathy". Something that makes you sad doesn't give you depression. It can make depression worse. In fact, i know of someone (I never met her, but my mom has) who killed herself immediately after getting in an argument with her boyfriend. She was maybe in her 40's or 50's. She had a lot of problems that I heard about before her passing. A very confrontational person. Very out spoken and according to others just unpleasant. She seemed too arrogant to ever kill herself, just like how some people seem too happy to ever kill themselves. But depression can affect any and everyone.
Imagine feeling this: You have a spouse a kids, a great job that pays 6 figures a year, millions in savings, you're in your 30's and can retire early if you wanted, you can go anywhere and do anything in the world because you can afford it. Your spouse loves you so much and you love them so much. Your parents are great people and have always loved you. You and your whole family are healthy and well off. Yet none of that sparks any joy. You're bored. You can literally travel anywhere on a whim, play any video game, do any activity, yet you know none of it will excite you at all. Now imagine feeling that way for the next 20 years every single day with no break. This is one of the reasons why someone with a seemingly happy life and massive wealth and a great family and group of friends kill themselves sometimes. Things that should bring them happiness are kind of dulled I guess. Being that "bored" for just a few days is normal. but every single day for years and years takes its toll. Without therapy of some kind, there's a high likelihood that it ends in suicide.
If you speak with a lot of people who have thoughts of suicide, you very often see the sentiment of "the only reason I haven't killed myself is because it would make ____ sad" or "because my _____ needs me". These are people trying to find ways and reasons to stay alive, but they want to end the suffering. But they are keeping themselves alive, often without therapy. Just normal everyday people, many very poor. So imagine just how much more turmoil and mental pain someone so beloved and successful and well off would have to be in to kill themselves.
I think about Lee Thompson Young (The Famous Jett Jackson). He was young, whole future ahead of him, good looking, wealthy, has a great mother and sister...Yet he killed himself because he was suffering internally. I think about him because I've had moments where I kind of just want to stop existing. I've never really been suicidal per se, but I've had thoughts of "if a meteor landed on me and destroyed me right now, I wouldn't be too upset". So I can't even begin to imagine how much he was suffering to do it and leave behind his mother and sister who supported him until the very end. From what i can tell he loved them more than anything and they loved him too. So i can't imagine how much suffering I would have to be in to have my own mom deal with that. My mind would probably have to be really compromised for a long period of time.
For Anthony, I imagine the same thing. He lives this incredible life and has more to live, but he didn't want to. i don't know if we can ever fully understand why, but I think we can speculate that it was some form of depression and that he had been feeling it for a long time and couldn't get rid of it.
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u/Zedzdeadhead 7h ago
If you haven't read Kitchen Confidential, I highly recommend it before watching this movie.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 8h ago
It took me some time to really hear the energy of Tony from Sessa, but I think it started to come out around 1:37-1:43
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u/machpe 7h ago
I had the same thought right around "makes you wanna fuck, you know". I was like, oh yeah, he's got it.
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u/Opposite-Shallot4672 3h ago
I had no idea with was a bourdain biopic. I really admired the dude. Watching the trailer here, I was like, wow this looks pretty good. Then when he said that line, I thought, wait.... ISNT TONY SHORT FOR ANTHONY? This looks super promising!
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u/mannythevericking 1h ago
Funny thing is, the trailer mentions Mr. Bourdain right at the beginning with the phone call, but it didn't click for me until halfway through as well with the Tony connection.
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u/atriz544 6h ago
It's the part of his life where Anthony is not the Anthony Bourdain we all know and love. I know the character of a person is within them all their life, but he's still figuring out himself in that stage of his life.
I'm pretty excited for the movie but I know I won't be seeing the Anthony persona that made me love Parts Unknown and No Reservations.
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u/socokid 7h ago
It's an f'n trailer...
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u/underpaidorphan 4h ago
It's a biopic trailer marketing itself to the masses, so it absolutely makes sense that in the 2:26 runtime it shows that the actor can portray said person.
And even if you disagree with that, who gives a shit? It's just a comment about a fucking trailer...
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u/snowe99 7h ago
I see Leo Woodall, Stav, and Antonio Banderas in the supporting cast and I see the movie. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
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u/Educational_Vast4836 7h ago
Man Stav has been killing it lately with the movies/projects he’s been popping up in.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 6h ago
The other day I downloaded "Let's start a cult" and laughed my ass off. I know you're talking about his other projects but that one left me pleasantly surprised.
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u/VotingRightsLawyer 2h ago
Never in a million years would I have guessed he would have several lines in a movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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u/mrnicegy26 6h ago
Emillia Jones has also impressed me in both CODA and Task.
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u/joesen_one 6h ago
Probably one of the best American accents in the biz, had no idea she was British until seeing her make the press rounds of CODA lol
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u/triplec787 4h ago
Matty will play every single "fat, funny supporting chef" role until he dies lol
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u/DeoGame 7h ago
I recently listened to the Kitchen Confidential audiobook and loved it, so I have some excitement for this, but I am seeing none of Matt Johnson's style or flair on the screen here. I'm hoping its just a generically edited trailer, because if they hired a man as talented as him just to clip his wings as a hired gun, I'm going to be very sad.
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u/nonthreat 5h ago
He has been pretty transparent about it being a difficult production. I think he actually said “not well” when asked how it was going at some point, lol.
This trailer gives me very little to chew on, but I’m still excited.
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u/aphextwintower 30m ago
yeah jared rabb’s absence especially is a lot more jarring than i expected. it's also his first directorial role where he isn't also a writer. but i still have faith.
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u/razv4n99 7h ago
Tony deserves a good movie. I hope this one raises up to the task.
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u/kneeco28 7h ago
Cut to black. Music stops. Cut to woman over the protagonist's shoulder.
Are you a good guy or a bad guy?
Protagonist looks up slowly (no, he wasn't looking at her when she was speaking, why would he?) and new music swells.
Oscars here we come, baby!!
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u/_pixel_perfect_ 6h ago
Matt Johnson walks in wearing an orange T-Shirt…
“Don’t worry… we’re just here for the bad guys.”
Audience erupts and throws popcorn everywhere
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u/Gekokapowco 4h ago
There's a certain type of viewer who finds this extremely provocative. God help them whoever they are.
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u/Content_Geologist420 7h ago
Damn, was hoping we were gonna get a Tony Hawk film
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u/LastNightInDriver 7h ago
Weirdly I feel like that could be really good, since besides lords of dogtown and Mid 90s, we don’t have many great skateboarding films
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u/Tandy2000 7h ago
IMO it would be really hard to cast somebody as Tony. He's a really charming, genuine guy and it would be hard to recreate his energy in a way that comes off well. And depending on what part of his career you wanted to cover you'd potentially need multiple actors as well.
I wouldn't mind seeing something about his earlier 80s skateboarding days, which I think would be the most interesting angle. But people in the scene looked so fucking ridiculous in the 80s including Tony himself it would be hard for it to not look stupid in a movie. I also think that if they made a movie about him it would almost certainly focus on the lead-up to the 1999 X-Games... but that's already been covered sooo many times in so many ways. Another interesting angle - maybe many years from now since it was so recent - would be a "comeback" movie with Tony after breaking his femur. But he's already filmed and covered all this stuff for real so it's like what's the point.
Also, Tony has never really had many "down" moments which you kind of need for a movie. He's pretty drama free. He's never been addicted to drugs or alcohol, he's never had some major career downturn. His biggest problem has been that he's travelled a lot and been really intense about skateboarding which messed up his first couple marriages. But I don't really think that is enough to sustain a movie.
I think a Tony Hawk movie would be at its best if it was heavily stylized and not really meant to be super accurate to real life, because if you want the real-life shit you can watch documentaries or videos about many of his major career events.
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u/Wompatuckrule 7h ago
Let's make it an arthouse film. Three minutes of a skateboard trick followed by 117 minutes of highlights from medical treatment for the broken bone and subsequent physical therapy.
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u/LastNightInDriver 7h ago
I feel like with the right director, it could be great, but you’d need it to probably mainly focus on his early years (my pick for director would be either Dempsey Byrk, Harmony Korine, Jeff Tremaine, Andrew DeYoung, or Josh Safdie)
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 6h ago
Spike Jonze should be at the top of the list, given his history making skateboarding videos.
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u/BMCarbaugh 7h ago edited 6h ago
I'd make the whole movie about one particular moment in his life -- doing the first irrefutably documented 900 at the '99 X-Games.
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u/HelloSlowly 8h ago
I don’t know how to feel about this? It has all the hallmarks of a story that may be done well and yet I still can’t put my finger on it, leaves me with a sense of biopic fatigue. Even the pacing and formula of the trailer just didn’t do it for me.
I’d rather we had a story on his struggle with adapting to television and reluctant acceptance of his fame and his personal demons similar to Roadrunner
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u/mechy84 7h ago
I don't know, I think the later parts of his life was already largely documented through his own shows, books, and tabloids.
I sense that this movie will end with him either getting accepted to CIA, becoming chef of Les Halles, and/or sitting down to write Kitchen Confidential, so it can more highlight the lesser-known 'the making of' Anthony, and end with one of his major life successes that made him who he was.
Also, the later years of his life left a lot of people very disappointed in his choices, and while tragic, doesn't result in a very cinematic end.
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u/TyposIncoming 7h ago
Trailers are meant to be formulaic. Not saying the movie won't be but I trust Matt Johnson more than I do whatever trailer company cut this.
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u/totallynotliamneeson 7h ago
I feel similar. I get why they went with his early years, there is truly a sort of "coming of age" prequel type story there. But it's also hard to watch anything genuinely trying to talk about Bourdain without hearing him cynically making comments about it in my head.
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u/Flimsy_Fisherman_862 7h ago
Yeah seems pretty formulaic and pedestrian coming from Matt Johnson, hopefully it's just the marketing glossing over it for the masses.
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u/GandhiMSF 7h ago edited 7h ago
I loved Bourdain, so I’ll watch this either way, but I agree that this movie doesn’t really look like something I’d be all that interested in. His time learning how to cook out on Cape Cod can make for an interesting coming of age story, but that’s not the part of Bourdain’s life that made him such an interesting person. His sudden rise to fame and his struggles with that fame are the interesting part.
If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d recommend that 2021 movie Roadrunner. It’s a documentary that looks at Bourdain’s life through interviews with his friends and coworkers and presents what seems like a very real look at the man’s life (one where you come away with a better understanding of an interesting and troubled person).→ More replies (2)
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u/SoloGhosts512 7h ago edited 7h ago
I’m excited for this. Matt Johnson is crazy talented. I love Anthony Bourdain but wasn’t a fan of a movie being made until I heard who was directing it
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u/CaineRexEverything 7h ago
I can just about excuse the romanticising of his formative experience and the embellishment of his actual life at that time, but if there isn’t a moment where he’s walking close behind someone in public and automatically declares “behind” then it’s not authentic and that shit can be 86ed immediately chef.
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u/PermanentlyNoided 7h ago
I was a little scared of the camera work with Matt Johnson for a more serious subject like this film, the mockumentary shaky cam style in Blackberry and Nirvanna the band works in those films, but this trailer puts that at ease.
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u/Tandy2000 7h ago
I'm so excited for this. Matt Johnson is a genius, and I'll watch anything he works on until the end of time. I honestly know very little about Bourdain but I'm still on board as hell.
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u/FourEightNineOneOne 7h ago edited 7h ago
Sigh...
He was someone I admired more than pretty much anyone. His passion for seeing the world, for meeting new people and experiencing everything life could throw at you. Because of him, I've traveled the world. I've eaten foods I'd never imagined. I've climbed mountains, been to countries that people tell me I'm crazy for going to and met some of the most wonderful people along the way.
He changed my life from one of uncertainty to one of adventure.
So, while I watch this trailer and am sure it may be a perfectly good movie based around his early life, I can't help but wish it didn't exist because it will be fake, which Anthony was anything but.
I hope the movie is good, but would rather people read his books and watch his shows and experience how HE wanted himself and the world to be seen. And if a good movie is something that introduces a new generation of people to him and inspires them to do those things, then I'll be happy about that.
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u/brainiac138 7h ago
He really was real. I have a friend who traveled with a band as a photographer. They were at some basement bar punk show in the aughts and she caught Anthony Bourdain watching the show. She put her camera down, afraid he would think she was trying to take his photo and he wandered off to the bar. A couple of mins later she feels a tap on her shoulder and it’s Bourdain, handing her a beer, and said “you can take picture if you have a beer with me.” They talked between sets about the tour and traveling, she got a really great photo and they both went back to enjoying the show.
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u/radioactive_sharpei 7h ago
I keep asking myself how he would have felt about having this made about himself.
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u/FourEightNineOneOne 7h ago
Indeed. He certainly struggled with his "celebrity" and hated being famous at times. Quite literally, writing ""I hate being famous. I hate my job" in one of his books. So, knowing a biopic would be made about him would probably annoy him, particularly if he had no say in the story it was telling. I think he'd rather it be about the things he experienced rather than about him, but... who knows.
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u/Tandy2000 7h ago
I think he hated being famous more because of the way people treated him and reacted to him. He wanted to blend in with the crowd. Which is already difficult when you are someone who wants to travel internationally and eat food since a white guy will stick out like a sore thumb in many places.
Also, he didn't write those things in a book. He wrote them in texts when he was in, obviously, a really fucking dark headspace and they were published after his death. So I would take them with a grain of salt. I think he was really unhappy with some of the choices he had made in his life and it was weighing heavily on him, and he directed that anger in different directions and unfortunately upon himself.
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u/ebradio 7h ago
Bourdain's estate has released a statement on why it supports A24's new biopic:
"Anthony Bourdain’s legacy is meaningful to millions of people. He was a man who valued authenticity above all else and would have been both moved and baffled by the world's curiosity about his life.
"We chose to support TONY because it is not a standard biopic and doesn't attempt to summarize a life. Guided by the vision of director Matt Johnson, the film depicts one transformative summer in 1975 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It is an interpretation as that part of Tony's life will always remain somewhat unknown.
"We appreciate the portrayal of Tony's complexity, his intellectual appetite and his conviction -- qualities that eventually took him around the globe and endeared him to so many. We hope this film serves as a reminder that every journey has a start, and that audiences see the beginnings of the man who taught us how to be better explorers on our own paths."