影片改编自真人真事,讲述了畅销书《无尽的玩笑》作者大卫·福斯特·华莱士(杰森·席格尔 饰)和《滚石》杂志记者(杰西·艾森伯格 饰)一同踏上新书全国宣传之旅过程中发生的故事。
杰瑞发布于2023-05-21
影片改编自真人真事,讲述了畅销书《无尽的玩笑》作者大卫·福斯特·华莱士(杰森·席格尔 饰)和《滚石》杂志记者(杰西·艾森伯格 饰)一同踏上新书全国宣传之旅过程中发生的故事。
- LIPSKY:
Really.- DAVID:
I had to wear this polyester uniform, and walk under these fluorescent lights, twirlin’ my baton, checking in every ten minutes: [mimes a walkietalkie] “All clear at this cubicle!” Like, every bad '60s novel about meaningless authority.- LIPSKY:
And were you thinking, “My God, I had two books come out when I was in my early twenties and here I am...”?- DAVID:
No. As a matter of fact, one reason I liked that job is, I walked around not thinking. In a really like, “Huh: there's a ceiling tile.”- LIPSKY:
And after the security guard thing?- DAVID:
This is the worst: I worked as a towel boy at this chichi health club.- LIPSKY:
A “towel boy?”- DAVID:
They called me something other than a towel boy, but I was in effect a towel boy. Who every once in a while was entrusted with the job of checking people in, having them show their i.d?- LIPSKY:
Uh huh.- DAVID:
Anyway, I'm sitting there, and who should walk in to get their towel, but this guy, this writer I knew. 37. Who received a Whiting Writer's Award the same year I had, like two years earlier.- LIPSKY:
Oh, sh*t...- DAVID:
So I see this guy that I'd been up on this f***ing rostrum with, having Eudora Welty give us this prize -- LIPSKY:
Oh, God!- DAVID:
-And two years later, I'm like … It's the only time I've literally dived under something, to have somebody avoid seeing me.- LIPSKY:
Did you think you were done then?- DAVID:
Yeah. I was pretty sure life was over.- LIPSKY:
This is after your suicide watch? David blinks. A beat.- DAVID:
How’d you know about that?- LIPSKY:
I read it somewhere. McLean’s, right? How long were you there?- DAVID:
Eight days, I think.- LIPSKY:
Why were you there?