I mean, it's not that I don't care, but I would rather people talk about it than not talk about it. If it wasn't there, it was like, hey we all get together and everything's fine and we have a baby. Zooey Deschanel and Paul Dano were leading the way in the film.
For the most part, it is said that the movie comes off as a quirky comedy. It was not detrimental to Zach's career and as of the following year, things really started to trend in the right direction. One year later, Zach turned into a major star thanks to his role as Alan.
Although the role changed the trajectory of his career, he's thankful for his father , who was the one that always believed in him from the start. He had such a great sense of humor. Of the character, like a cardboard cutout? My dad took one from the local theater of me. And he stood on the corner of the street with a cutout of me, waving to people. ASELTON: If pushed, I'd say it's basically just a manifestation of his subconscious and some sort of dark demon that's chasing him, that he's got to defeat before he can move on.
That's why he disappears at the end… it's a figment of [Paul's character's] imagination… I realize it's confounding for some people but I don't really care. I mean, it's not that I don't care, but I would rather people talk about it than not talk about it.
If it wasn't there, it was like, hey we all get together and everything's fine and we have a baby. John Goodman's character is very interesting. In some ways, he's really strong but in some ways he's incredibly weak, like with his back problems and reliance on his daughter.
I like those kinds of people… He's blustery and he's bombastic, anti-Semitic and homophobic yet caring, he loves his daughter and [he's] apologetic about his own ways. He's a grump. It's not the easiest stuff for him, but he did like the material and I had a nice meeting with him, and he saw the cast and -- I think it was a couple of phone calls. It wasn't so bad. He's a delightful person to be around; he's so engaged and energetic and interesting, so we were lucky to have him.
Can you also talk about the scenes in the woods where he and his sons are hallucinating on mushrooms? That's kind of an interesting family ritual. ASELTON: I did know a family like that -- not necessarily just like that, but… the parents were painters and on New Year's, they'd all do mushrooms and go swimming in the ocean, which I thought was a crazy family ritual but it was also sweet, in a way….
Aside from that family, I don't know where that came from. I do remember Ed Asner asking the boys what it was like to trip on mushrooms right before we were shooting, and I was like, "Yes!
Tell him, boys! As I've said before, the people that like the movie are very positive about it because it's new, it's different in some ways. They like the actors -- I think people go see movies for the actors, personally.
Actors and filmmakers…. It's a frustrating movie for a lot of people… Like the homeless man that people find they can't get their head around and it's not explicit and we don't exactly know why it happened or what this all means… But we just won the Grand Jury Prize in Dallas, which I just found out about, so it gets support, it gets a ton of support, and then I have people like at this one woman after the Toronto Film Festival [screening] who was pissed at me after the movie.
She was like, "What the hell is going on? Meanwhile, the Manhattan shop in which our hero works is visited by wealthy businessman, Al Lolly the perfectly deadbeat John Goodman. Cue the entrance of Happy Zooey Deschanel , who comes in and naps for a while on her father's new bed in the middle of the shop floor.
Why not? Naturally, as with plenty of past performances from quirk-queen Deschanel Elf, Yes Man , Happy is pixie-like pretty and outwardly sparky.
So following a group visit to her father's osteopath, the script pairs her up as an item with Brian, who is neither attractive nor sparky and needs to give his greasy hair a good wash. He's not. He's a drip. But then we learn that Happy has her own inner demons and that Brian is her first boyfriend.
The lack of expectation weighing on Brian's shoulders bodes well for their fledgling relationship. Sadly the romance is interrupted not only by the impending Chinese baby, but by a mysterious homeless man who keeps appearing in different guises and trying to kill Brian.
Again, the scriptwriters don't furnish the audience with such details. But it turns out that this homeless man Zach Galifianakis may or may not be a figment of Brian's imagination.
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