Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Jordan: Hey everybody, welcome to the Out the Trunk Pile with Jordan and Darius. My name is Jordan. You can find me on all socials at Jordy B Riding.

Darius: And I'm Darius. That's easy. I love me, Ari on all socials.

Jordan: And today we're going to be reviewing Stranger Than Fiction, came out in 2006, starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, the legendary Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, and Tony Hale. This movie is about a man named Harold Crick, who's an isolated IRS auditor governed by numbers and routines who begins hearing a narrator's voice chronicling his life. When the voice predicts his imminent death, Harold must find the author responsible for his story while learning to actually live the life he left before it ends. So I'm going toss it to you, set up act one.

Darius: Act one, the narrator in the head. Harold's rigid life is disrupted when he hears a woman's voice describing his every move. Panicked by the realization that he is a character in a tragedy. He seeks help from a literature professor. I just want to say shout out to original movies, man. Yeah. I've never seen a movie like this before. It was truly an original concept. And you don't see that very often, even though I think this movie is 20 years old. But you get what I mean. Like they don't It's hard to do original things. It's risky to do original things. And we should applaud people when they try.

Jordan: Agreed.

Darius: And Will Ferrell can act, so.

Jordan: He can.

Darius: What you got, Frank?

Jordan: I'd actually like to see him, I was going to say that, actually, to piggyback off your point, I think, to me, the great test of a comedic actor is how good they are at drama, because comedy is actually harder than drama, because you're supposed to feel something. You're supposed to do it having a specific reaction to a joke. You know what I mean? There's only one reaction you can have and that's a laugh. And if you don't laugh, you didn't do your job as the comedian, entertainer, so on and so forth. So it was great to see him in a dramatic role. I actually kind of wish he'd do more of them because he was really, really good in this. What was I going to say? We actually, so I wanted to ask you, is this your first time seeing it? Yeah. Have you seen this before?

Darius: I've never seen it before.

Jordan: Okay, yeah, so we actually watched this in high school for a creative writing class, kind of just, you know, they wanted us to understand perspectives and, you know, narration and different literary devices and stuff like that. So, and this movie does a really good job of showing those things.

Darius: Your teacher was probably just hung over and needed a break and put the movie on.

Jordan: That's also possible.

Darius: As an adult, as someone who was dating.

Jordan: She was an older lady, but.

Darius: I found out that movie day was often just, they went out the night before. So little behind the curtains for those listening at home.

Jordan: No, that's real.

Darius: When the teacher put on Remember the Titans, was it Friday? Because it was a thirsty Thursday the night before. So that's usually what happened. If you heard a voice narrating your life right now, what genre book would it be?

Jordan: God.

Darius: Probably should have re-flighted that one. I didn't, we had so much else going on. We can come back to it. What else you got for everyone?

Jordan: No, that's cool. I'll figure. Right now, what genre, it would be like a coming of age drama.

Darius: Okay. I'm into that. I'm into that. Yeah, I'm kind of into that.

Jordan: Metamorphosis phase right now.

Darius: Okay.

Jordan: So yeah.

Darius: What's the pokémon? I was going to sound like a really big dork and talk about pokémon evolutions but butterflies become butterflies I won't say the actual pokémon but uh yeah so makes sense you don't know one got you.

Jordan: What you say you're gonna pretend like you don't know the name of the pokémon got you um yeah so I think um what was I gonna say um I really like one thing I like about this movie is that It does show how easily you can just get caught up in just being on autopilot in your life and kind of the things that can happen when you don't actively like make decisions and you just get caught in this routine. You're almost like a walking simulation. Because he very much, again, like you said, I'm a character in my own life, but he wasn't even the main character. He was just like some side guy with like miscellaneous, you know what I mean? Like he's like that coworker that you see that you kind of forget is there some days yeah.

Darius: He's the people in the background of the coffee shop where like the main characters are like talking and they're just extra in the show um yeah I mean sometimes I feel like that where it's just like you get into this routine and you just do you type for a living and go to the gym at the same time every day um go to work every day cook every day and you know yeah play video games and go to the same places on the weekends and it could just feel a bit repetitive, if you will. So, yeah. Yeah, I guess if I were to answer my own question back to me, what genre of book would it be? Like, **** heralds. I don't know what you call the drama book that would never get made because it's nothing happens. Not a lot going on, man. Just boring.

Jordan: I think you call that some of the movies we've reviewed. Yeah. What else you got? Okay, so I wanted to ask you, if you had someone narrating your life, like famous or maybe just anybody, who would it be? And you can't say Morgan Freeman.

Darius: No, I mean, I would want it to be a woman. And let me go with Halle Berry. Okay. I just think I love her Twitter presence.

Jordan: She does have great commentary.

Darius: I think she has the best pulse of the culture. I mean, for a 50 something year old woman. And she blends the old with the new very well. And I think that she would do a good job keeping the pace of my extraordinary, ordinary life. Which movie was that? Extraordinary, ordinary life. Oh, it was the one where he was he could, like, go in the closet and reverse time. About time. That's what it was called.

Jordan: Oh, okay. Okay.

Darius: Yeah. Anyways, off topic. What you got for what else you got for act one.

Jordan: So one of my favorite quotes in this movie, and it's so realistic, is where he's on the bus with Maggie Gyllenhaal's character, and there's a narrator voiceover, and she goes, Carroll quickly calculated the odds of making an *** of himself in ratio to the amount of times he stayed to chat. And I've been in that situation where I'm like, if I say here no longer, will I say something stupid? And if I think I'm going to say something stupid, I just leave.

Darius: It's usually when I switch to water. It's usually a good time to do that when you feel like you're losing your ability to filter saying dumb things.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: Usually a good time to put the beverage down and get up some water. Order some food, take a lap.

Jordan: Yeah, take a lap, get some fresh air, phone a friend.

Darius: Or just go home, you know?

Jordan: That too.

Darius: That's usually a sign when you As I'm dropping things when you're when you're losing, when you can feel that filter dropping and like that, the things that you know would stay buried reach like right here. So I let me let me switch it up. So when I head into act two or you got anything else for act one?

Jordan: Yes, I do have a question for you. I guess you're pretty you probably do have this then. Do you have a morning routine similar to the intro?

Darius: Wake up, I drink. So I wake up, I feed my cat right away because he eats at 7am. And then I have, take my water jug and I have two glasses of water. And then I go brush, I have one glass of water and then I turn on the air filters in my apartment. I have my second glass of water and I brush my teeth and then I have my third glass of water. And while after the third glass of water, I refill the water bottle. And then that's my 4th glass of water. That's the break between that. And I start the day with four glasses of water. And then I pour my coffee and I have a banana and I work. That's what I do every single morning. If I have to go into the office, I shower in between the 4th glass of water and before I pour the coffee. But my bag is already packed the night before for work. So I can just like literally out the shower and I've already had my clothes picked out. down to like t-shirts, draws and socks. Like they're already out for the office tomorrow. Okay. And so from the moment I get out of bed at 7, I am in my cubicle working by 735. Gotcha. And so maybe I get out of bed at like 650, just depending. But that is The most obvious answer to your question ever is yes, I do have a roti. That is the gist of it. Down to that's if I go into the office, the banana is at the office. If I don't go into the office, the banana is right when I get the coffee. So got a banana every day. The first thing I eat every morning is a banana and some black coffee. How about you?

Jordan: Yes and no. It changes like you on days when I'm in the office. When I'm working from home, I usually just get up about 15, 20 minutes before work, wash my face, maybe get my body moving a little bit so I can have some sort of energy, turn my lamps on. I'll maybe check my phone real quick, see if anything crazy happened overnight on social media or in the news. I will pick out, I mean, I work from home most days, so I'm just wearing like gym **** or whatever, hoodies and stuff. I usually like to shower around like 9 or 10 A.m. It's kind of like my reset for the day if I feel like the first half of my day didn't go as planned. It's kind of like my insurance policy. And then I'll pick out whatever audiobook or YouTube stuff I want to listen to while I work or I'll find an old album or I usually have a song I listen to for the first like 30 minutes of the day just kind of get myself in the mode of like working without just scrolling and looking for a song and **** like that. And then on days where I go into the office, get up around 630, 645. I don't like ironing, so I put my clothes in the dryer so I can do that while I shower. That's very millennial.

Darius: I don't know.

Jordan: I just, I wasn't sure if that was like millennial coded or not, so I just throw my clothes in the dryer, speed wash, speed, speed dryer. I have my Alexa, so I'll play music, get in the shower, get out, get dressed, drink some water real quick. And then I have my backpack. All I need is my badge, throw my headphones in my Kindle and my work laptop and my book bag. And then I speed to work. So that's my morning routine for office days.

Darius: I try to make every decision that I have to make the night before. That's why, yeah, the clothes are picked out. The shoes are going to wear it picked out. The watch I'm wearing is picked out. The cologne is picked out. And so all I got to do is wake up, feed the cat, drink my water. And I'm dressed to go to, I can leave, I can literally just shower and leave out the door. Office days, I mean, remote days, I'm not getting dressed. No one does that. That's like. Correct. I don't even remember when they tell you nobody does that. Nobody gets dressed to work in the room next to me. And so my first shower on remote days is when I get home from the gym. But Friday night before I go to the bar, It depends. So if I work all day Friday, it's a little different, but I take a lot of half days Friday for two reasons. One, a half day counts as an office day. So I only have to go in two days that week if I take a half day Friday.

Jordan: Okay, got you.

Darius: At my level of tenure, I get a lot of PTO and I don't, when you work remote, you never have to call in sick. I don't have any kids and I don't really take long vacations. I just take a lot of three day or four days or four dayers. And so I just have a lot of PTO to burn. So I don't really work a lot of Fridays. But so Friday I work out 1030, get home about 1230. That's usually when I like allow myself some fast food. So I'll probably get like McDonald's or something. And then 2 o'clock, I nap till 4 o'clock, get up, clean my place until 530, play video games until 830. And that's when I shower and I'm at the bar by 915. And that's literally what I do every Friday. Oh, the video game switches. But right. Yeah, because if I don't, I need a nap. Otherwise I'll be yawning in that ***** at 11 o'clock. And so I feel I work until like two o'clock and then I'll take a nap until four, 430, clean the crib until 637, whatever. And then just play video games until 830, 830 shower. See you. with a beer in a shot by 915. So it's all it's nice borderline autistic. And I don't mean that borderline. Right. So I'm not that rigid about it. Like sometimes we go different places. But if we're if sometimes I go a little earlier, sometimes I'll go to the spot that's walking distance from my crib. But I usually like to do that on Saturday and just not go all the way out. I do on Friday. So it just depends. Right. I feel you. Yeah. That's it.

Jordan: Nice.

Darius: On pod Tuesdays, I get home because that's an office day. I get home about 345 and then I'll just lay and sit down and reset until 4 or 5 and get ready for the gym, be there 415, work out, go by 6, eat, fold, close, 730, start prepping for the pod. lights on. So it's all very much like Harold. That's enough of my routine today. You want to get into act two.

Jordan: Yeah. Let me see. Oh yeah. So act two, one of my main, I haven't read the prompt yet. yeah, go ahead.

Darius: Act 2, righting the wrong, Harold tracks down the author, Karen Eiffel, while simultaneously falling for a rebellious baker he's supposed to be auditing. He struggles to balance his growing humanity with the knowledge that his story is ending. What do you want to tell the people?

Jordan: The only one of my main issues with this movie is that they never really show or explain why Harold is the way he is. And I don't just mean like the bored employee thing. I mean like like just he's just so like vanilla and it's like they never explained like if something happened to him as a child or like you know what I mean like they never I wish they had dived more into who what made him what he was as opposed to just him realizing that his life sucked.

Darius: I have it here literally for this segment we're starting to think alike. I've actually never seen a movie do less with more. This is an incredible premise that just doesn't do anything. It's a two hour long day in the life TikTok. And I was like, okay, is something going to happen?

Jordan: It's like they took it's like they they they realized like the the reason behind or the methodology behind the characters in Fight Club. They didn't try to go any further. And I'm like, you had it right there. You couldn't you know what I mean?

Darius: Yeah, I mean like the bulldozer through his apartment, I guess was something that happened. But even then that just like just happened. Nothing else goes with it. It's just, it's a great premise that just.

Jordan: It's a really good premise.

Darius: Just needed better writers. Yeah, I agree. Like I said, it felt like a two hour long day in the life TikTok. I like those 30 seconds at a time.

Jordan: Yeah, me too. Me too. I think my thing too is that like every, he's literally the least, every other character in the movie is more interesting than him.

Darius: Yeah.

Jordan: I think that's also a problem, which is the point of the movie. I understand that. But I just wish they'd given us a little more reason to want him to live. Not that I want him to die, but like, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Darius: I know nothing about this character and I spent an hour and 50 minutes with them.

Jordan: Right, exactly. Like I know his name's Harold. He wanted to play the guitar, so he did. He worked for the IRS, really good at math. Creature of habit. And that's all we know about Harold. But I did like the scene where he stays after He's doing the auditing at the cookie show, at the bakery. And she's offering him the cookies and he like ***** it up because he's like, oh, he's so rigid that he's not willing to understand. He didn't even understand that she was like just genuinely showing a gesture of kindness. And it just got me wondering, so I'm going to ask you now, you may need time to think so I understand if you do. What's your most, have you had a most obvious fumble like that? Like with a girl where you're like, you realize later on like, oh my God, she was like, you know what I mean? I really ****** that up.

Darius: I actually, I didn't do it on purpose. Yes, I don't know if I can share that story though. It goes back to it's work-related, so I can't really do it. But yes, I mean, everyone has those stories where they're like sitting in their room and they look at the sky and they go, It might have been three years ago, four years ago, five years ago. And it finally hit you that she was throwing it at you and you didn't even catch it. So I certainly.

Jordan: It's funny because like I'm sure there are several times where like women have thought that a guy wasn't interested and it's like, no, he just genuinely had no idea what the **** was going on.

Darius: Well, so women are bad at flirting.

Jordan: That's also true.

Darius: And. Yeah, I guess. Well, I mean, it's easy for us to say that because maybe we're just not picking up, you know, two different genders, right? And we communicate in two different ways and sometimes those wires don't cross the way they should. But certainly. Yeah, I can't even tell that story either because it's. Yeah, that's bar related. Yeah. OK. Yeah. I mean, certainly it has happened to me and certainly I have. I'm trying to think.

Jordan: Let's see here. Oh, actually, yeah, I have one. I was at a bar for the Super Bowl a couple years ago. This is after I'd gotten suspended that one time. And I was sitting there and there was these two girls and they're both cute, whatever. And one of them, kept asking me questions about the game and stuff like, okay, so how's that a fumble or what's a fumble? Like **** like that, and how do they know, what's that line mean, the yellow line and all that kind of stuff. And I remember, I think I was texting you and I was like, yo, I'm in here trying to watch the game and this girl won't shut the **** **. You know, and you were like, I was like, you were like, what do you mean? I was like, she asked me all these ******* questions. And you're like, what are you, like what kind of questions? I was telling you what she was asking me. And you were like, dude, she's interested in you. No woman is out to watch Super Bowl that doesn't understand what the scrimmage is. Yeah.

Darius: What's A fumble. Yeah. I actually do have one that's shareable. Now I think about it. So I was in Minnesota for my dad's 60th birthday party in December. And we're checking into the hotel and my sister has a hotel plug. And so like it just a dirt cheap plug. And so I had to wait on her to land and get situated and come to the hotel because it's in her name. And I'm just sitting there scrolling my phone, charging my phone. and the front desk lady and I are just talking or whatever. And she's just like, what are you, where are you going tonight? And I was like, well, I'm here for my dad's birthday, but today I'm going out with the fellas. And she was like, she's like the, she's the front desk lady. And she's like, oh, where do you like to go? And she told me about this place. I think his name was like plush or something like that. Okay, so what happened? Because I had time to kill. And I'm like, is there anywhere to drink around here? Like, there's no bar in here. Is there a bar around here? I'm on vacation. **** it. And she was like, no, but around the corner, there's this lounge called Plush. I'm just using that. I think that was a name. And that's, you know, where a lot of me, like, that's where a lot of people RH go, whatever, whatever. And I'm like, what time? You know, like, Where is it? And she's like, it's like, it's like, it's a hall. So I couldn't go and whatever. And then she asked me, I asked her what to do and she keeps bringing up this bar. And the next day, so I went out to fellas and then that next day, coming downstairs to buy some bottles of water and she's the front desk lady again. And she's just dragging. And I'm like, you all right. She's like, yeah, I went out with the girls last night. And to be honest, because they had snowed in Minnesota. And she was like, I was I knew she was like, I knew we were like, I wanted my employees to be able to get back here. So I got them rooms in the hotel because she's the manager. Just let them sleep here.

Jordan: Right. Okay. Yeah.

Darius: And I was like, oh, that's cool. And I was like, she was like, so I just figured I'd go out. And I was, where'd you go? And she said, plush. And I stayed here last night. I was like, ****. So that is a good one.

Jordan: She was literally wingmanning for you and the boys.

Darius: No.

Jordan: She was interested in you, but I think she probably planned to have your boys with your homegirls. Some of your friends get with my friends so we can be friends.

Darius: Clearly they had went out because she was looking rough. And it was like 10 in the morning. It wasn't even no early *** time. And she was like, yeah, I slept here last night. I went to plush. And then like all that math just hit my head. And I was like, first of all, use your words. You should have said, would you like to meet me at plush tonight?

Jordan: Yes. Yeah. Thank you.

Darius: I'd have been like, yes. Let me text the group chat right now.

Jordan: Correct. I mean, even I remember that time we were at the bar and that girl was talking to me and you and platinum blonde hair girl was like, Jordan, that girl's like into you. What are you doing?

Darius: Sometimes. I mean, listen. What was I supposed to do? Just show up at this place because you said you was going to be there and.

Jordan: No, because what if you were wrong and you look like an *******?

Darius: Or just a ******* stalker. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Some guy at the hotel that you checked into just popped up.

Jordan: Hey, Becky.

Darius: So yeah, I guess that is one time where I did not see it coming. Do you have anything else track to?

Jordan: Yeah, so I actually wanted to ask you, or yeah, do you think this movie in some way, served as a precursor and social commentary on what we now call the male loneliness epidemic.

Darius: No, not really. I mean, it's hard because it feels like a relic because there's no cell phones in it. Right. And cell phones. And I don't even think he's like using a laptop in the movie. So they're still doing audits?

Jordan: He was using calculators and ****. Yeah.

Darius: And so A lot of the loneliness epidemic is a technology driven phenomenon. So true. I wouldn't say that like the technology is making it easier for people already inclined to be introverted to further isolate.

Jordan: Right.

Darius: But he didn't have any of that. And so and also like he had friends. He went to the office and he talked to them. They shared math equations and whatever. He met a girl in the movie. So I don't know. I think that without the technology, it's hard to make a true corollary there, but I could see how someone would see it that way. But it was shocking in how low tech the movie was and how modern it felt. Like it didn't feel, well, I mean, maybe we're just old.

Jordan: True.

Darius: The picture was like, I don't like how old these pictures of 2006 look.

Jordan: It's like I was there.

Darius: Yeah. Cause what year did this movie come out? 2006.

Jordan: 06? Yeah.

Darius: And it looks old.

Jordan: 06, yeah.

Darius: You know, like you notice the things like there's no cell phones, no one's texting, no one's on the internet. People are using pieces of paper. And I was an adult. I was 18 in 2006.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: Oh, man, we're getting old.

Jordan: Damn. Yeah, that was my freshman year of high school.

Darius: Damn, man. 20 year old movies are about our adulthood.

Jordan: It's so depressing.

Darius: It's not great. My 20 year high school reunion is this year.

Jordan: Damn.

Darius: Yeah.

Jordan: So how do you feel about that? That makes you feel the way about your life.

Darius: The alternative is dying young, so I'll take it. So no, I mean, getting old don't bother me, man. I feel good. Um, I'm in good shape. I'm in a good place. Um, you know, I don't, I'm good. I don't really have, obviously, you know, here and there you'd like things to be better, but you know, don't bother me. Things hurt a little bit more. I can't, you know, squat and bench press as much as I, well, depends on the day. I have to warm up my shoulder a little bit more, but.

Jordan: Yeah, because you're left or right shoulder.

Darius: Right shoulder, shoulder impingement, parchment, partially torn rotator cuff. It's one of those things that surgery wouldn't be worth it. So it's just constant maintenance. But no, man, I don't. I don't mind getting older. I'm smarter, more emotionally mature, and I just make better decisions. So I don't mind it at all. How about you, man? Feeling gray hairs?

Jordan: Yeah, I've got a few grades coming in. It's weird because like, I don't feel bad about it. I just I just I'm aware of it now. So it is a bit of a shock, you know, and I am aware that like I do need to put in more effort to like be healthy and to have a good life and quality of life. And I'm more aware of like, me wanting to have a good quality of life, especially like, not as I get older, but when I'm old, I think about, I mean, I'm in my early slash mid 30s, but, my grandfathers didn't make it past like 65, so I want to surpass that. And, there are things I can do that's largely in my control outside of, getting hit by a bus or something.

Darius: Yeah.

Jordan: Or, something a terminal illness or, so I'm more aware of things like that. And that's something that I think about a lot is just making sure now is like, okay, say I do want to have a family. It's like, okay, well, I want to make sure I'm able to be there for them, you know, for the long haul for a long time and stuff like that. But other than that, I mean, I feel pretty good. But again, it's better than the alternative. And, It's a natural part of life. It's not a bad thing. It's just something that people, you know, don't talk about or people make you feel like you should feel away about it. But, you know, it's like we're supposed to, that's how it's supposed to be. You know, it's sort of like, people, you know, grieve their parents when they lose them, obviously as they should. But somebody said something, heard someone say he wants, it's better to grieve them than to have them grieve you. And they would rather you grieve them than them grieve you. So I think about it like that. it's better to, get old or get older and, stress about a few gray hairs or, maybe not be as in shape or maybe not run as fast as I used to, as opposed to, being in a box. So. That's true. So, compared to that, we're all doing great.

Darius: I was, you said like, You want to get older and too many of us die young. I just, I get that and that's real. And there are definitely like health issues. But anytime you see like, they'll put up like the list of black celebrities that died before age 55 or 60 or whatever. And it's like, That's crazy. I'm sorry, but if you take up a heroin addiction, that's going to lower your life expectancy. That has nothing in it. I don't know if you can't just put that in there with the guy who like.

Jordan: No, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. That's real ****.

Darius: I don't know if you need, I know if anyone needs to know this, but if you take up ******** drugs, probably not going to live to see your grandchildren.

Jordan: Yeah, that's real ****. Again, addiction is a disease, but yes, that is true. Like, if it's something, not addiction, but if you can control the things that go in your body outside of an addiction, then you have a better, obviously better shot. And also just eating healthier is important too, you know what I'm saying? Like my grandfather, he had, but my grandfather's, I think, had diabetes, had to get amputations done and stuff like that, you know? So watching them perish was not, it was not a fun or easy process at all, So I really think about that a lot and I want to make sure that I don't suffer the same pitfalls.

Darius: You definitely, I mean, you definitely want to take care of yourself and make better decisions in the aggregate. And, those things all contribute to a long life expectancy. But who was the dude from the wire who passed? Bald-headed guy, Detective Daniels, Lieutenant Daniels.

Jordan: ****.

Darius: Whatever point, like you'll see these lists and they'll like put Michael K. Williams, like all the actors that died from the wire. And it's like, okay, like, okay, Williams had a fentanyl overdose.

Jordan: Yeah, unfortunately.

Darius: RIP and all, but like he had to know that that's gonna like, right. I hate to break it to you, but if you're a regular user of fentanyl, you're probably not gonna be around very long.

Jordan: Yeah. It sucks because it's the same thing with Matthew Perry, who's played Chandler in Friends. He wrote an amazing book about just like his life and about the struggle with addiction. And, you know, like it sucks because like the ending is so eerie because the ending is actually really, really hopeful and really, really happy. But he died like 2 years after the book came out. So it's like, you know, he thought he was kind of out of the woods and then, you know, he couldn't, you know, make it out. But I remember I saw a quote where Jennifer Aniston said, like, I mean, obviously they're still grieving. That's a heartbreak you'll live with forever. But she said, you know, we basically had grieved him while he was alive because we pretty much knew that he wasn't going to have, you know, the full capacity of life.

Darius: He wasn't alone for this world. He's a junkie.

Jordan: Yeah. Yes, unfortunately. You know, like that's because he was doing ketamine before he passed.

Darius: RIP though. Act 3, the final draft. Harold meets his creator and reads the masterpiece she has written for him. Facing a choice between his own survival and the completion of a perfect work of art, he prepares for his fate. Didn't really have anything for Act 3, man. What'd you got? I got one question, but I don't want to lead with that.

Jordan: Okay. I have one question also. I will say I did. From A storytelling perspective, it was really cool to see like the just the turmoil and misery of being a writer that and all the things that writers go through. they say it's like the loneliest process, the loneliest of all the creative endeavors. And this movie does a great job of illustrating that because she's basically just tweaking the **** out for two hours and trying to figure out the best way to give a character the send off that they deserve. You know, and it makes you think of like JK Rowling is, phenomenal writer and she talked about like the ending of Harry Potter. Sh