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(biography, comedy, drama)
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
actors:
| Chris Ambrose | as Superman |
| Joey Krajcar | as Batman |
| Josh Hutcherson | as Robin |
| Cameron Carter | as Green Lantern |
| Daniel Tay | as Young Harvey |
| Mary Faktor | as Housewife |
| Paul Giamatti | as Harvey Pekar |
| Harvey Pekar | as Real Harvey |
| Larry John Meyers | as Throat Doctor |
| Vivienne Benesch | as Lana |
| Barbara Brown | as Nurse |
| Earl Billings | as Mr. Boats |
| Danny Hoch | as Marty |
| James Urbaniak | as Robert Crumb |
Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini
rating:7.70
Successful innovation, American Splendor combines fiction and reality in a
fascinating and fun way, winning awards at Cannes and Sundance, and its maximum
demonstrating that life is quite complex (and endlessly fascinating)
things. . .
The story features Harvey Pekar, as he himself, as played by actor Paul Giamatti and
as the comic character he has created based on himself.
Pekan is downbeat, depressed, at an impasse for submitting jobs, rather bitter.
His best friend is a self-confessed nerd. However, when the events of his life is summed up in
snapshots of comics that are intensely moving, which seem
reach the dispossessed, dysfunctional in every one of us. We
him in a marriage that is as strange as it is. The originality of the material
is reflected in its postmodern style of presentation,
self-consciousness of handling public-blend seamlessly with
entertainment and artistic delivery. The scenes are introduced and is mixed with
comics tagline, storyboard, and even transitions interloping
establish the true Pekan talks with the actor playing under the scene
debate. If it sounds pretentious, it is not - simply because it works so well and
in an unpretentious way. Created with love and very emotional. Probably
the first classic of 2003 and not to be missed, and for lovers of
jazz / blues banda sonora an issue of collection.
(see at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
I also had the privilege of seeing real life Pekan, his wife and daughter taken
along with Paul Giamatti, truly the head of multimedia experience
haha!)
Over the years, people have read dozens of comic books:
Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, The Green Laterna, X-Men, Hulk, etc.,
seeking escape from reality, but At the same time, seeking a
relationship of those books. With "American Splendor" on the other hand,
is very different from comics. What makes it so special? It
that represent real life where it shows the character of Harvey Pekar
different situations.
"American Splendor" is a comedy / drama biography on the life of Harvey
Pekan (played by Paul Giamatti), in which the film plays like a comic book that shows
scenes that are real and fiction. Even the real Harvey
quite often makes appearances in the film to talk about his life, his wife
(Joyce) and all that kind of made him the person he is
today.
Harvey Pekar can be described as one of those characters who do not seem to
give a damn about the world. The reason
root of this character is that he is the kind of person who lives in his own world,
not give a crap about the incidents in the world, so I do not have formal
university education, work on a dead-end jobs where
future, people are still laughing at him. And yet, I do not blame him. I
Remembrance of two other films that had losers, but made an impact on society
male: "The Big Lebowski" and "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
in which two male characters not have to worry about anything or
go out on dates, or even friendly society (no, no, no, people).
all in all, American Splendor is a great movie. Although the film
target audience is for kids, I still encourage people to see this film
. The film also stars Hope Davis portrays Harvey's wife, Joyce.
One of the best movies!
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