I'm Still Here Page #3

Synopsis: In 2008 while rehearsing for a charity event, actor Joaquin Phoenix, with Casey Affleck's camera watching, tells people he's quitting to pursue a career in rap music. Over the next year, we watch the actor write, rehearse, and perform to an audience. He importunes Sean Combs in hopes he'll produce the record. We see the actor in his home: he parties, smokes, bawls out his two-man entourage, talks philosophy with Affleck, and comments on celebrity.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Casey Affleck
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2010
108 min
$408,719
Website
723 Views


we'll make it work

whenever Diddy's available.

This is f***ing ridiculous.

Good?

It's good.

New York, New York,

it's the captain speaking

Buckle up, sit tight,

we about to kick the streets in

Start from scratch,

no, it ain't a thing, man

I come with Diddy and I keep

on creeping creeping

Creeping.

So is this true?

You're done?

You're just--

you're going straight

for the music?

- Yeah.

- Wow.

Yeah, I really want it

to be like

a hip-hop "Bohemian Rhapsody"

kind of thing, you know?

I'm wanting it to be epic.

Epic is good.

Epic is--

it's good.

Epic is--

epic is epic.

Too big to burn up

in our atmosphere,

these pieces of ice and rocks

come hurtling down

on an unsuspecting metropolis.

Well, it's Sunday afternoon

and I haven't heard nothing.

Can you just call them

and find out what's going on?

Do the snow angel, dude.

I can beat you.

Do the snow angel.

Do the f***ing snow angel.

Dude, do the f***ing

snow angel.

Do the snow angel, Lar.

Do the f***ing snow angel, dude.

Do the f***ing snow angel.

Dude, do it.

Look at mine.

Look at mine.

Look at mine, dude.

- That's bad.

- Huh?

You're fine.

Dude, you only have wings!

His angel doesn't have f***ing legs.

Look, you don't have

any leg--

- I don't think you have balls.

- That's a funny bit.

You know, the big YouTube video

is just a little midget--

a little midget Indian being like--

They think everything is funny.

Have you seen their shows?

And they got-- there's one--

I wish I could remember

what the f***ing song was.

It's f***ing genius.

I can't-- it's so funny.

And the thing is they think

they're funny

and they don't even

hear how they sound.

You know, the accent sounds

normal to them.

And the clothes look normal.

They still think it's funny.

It's doubly funny for us.

Whoo!

Whoo.

Freeze-frame.

Ahh-- ow ow!

- You f*ggot! Busted.

- Ow ow ow!

- You're a f***ing--

- Ow, f***!

Running around

like a f***ing idiot, dude.

- You got sh*t on your face.

- Okay-- ow, f***! Ow!

Hey, Diddy can't do it now

for a few days, I'm being told.

I don't know, they said maybe

we could try for Saturday morning.

I don't know. I don't know

if it's going to happen this weekend.

I'm sorry. I wish I had

better news for you.

I want to be triumphant, man.

I want to be like--

And I got the blues once again

like an old fool

And then I jump down

and jump back up

And broke all the rules

I couldn't say yes anymore

to their games

I had to say no even if

it costs me my sane-ity.

What the f*** is going on?

Who the f*** acts like this?

I think he thinks

you aren't serious now.

- Why?

- I haven't read it,

but I know there's something

"Entertainment Weekly" just printed

saying you aren't really quitting

and it's a hoax.

They said they had an anonymous source--

someone close to you.

I don't know too much

about all the details,

but, man, he got a phone call

and that was it.

It says in quotations,

"He said, 'It's a put on.

I'm going to pretend to have a meltdown

and change careers

and Casey's going to film it,'

says one source who recently

worked with Phoenix."

Can you tell me who the sources are

for the magazine?

Dude, no.

- You can't tell me?

- No.

- Do you know who they are?

- Yes.

- You do know?

- Yes.

People aren't going

to recognize this art

because of their own stupid,

you know, preconceptions.

I mean, is it that your dream

is unattainable

or is it that you had

the wrong dream?

This b*tch is getting a storm.

She did not even know

a f***ing storm was coming.

I'm going to f***

her f***ing face.

She has no f***ing idea.

Hey, honey,

my name's Antony.

I was looking

for a little bit of company.

Oooh, sit.

I want to smell her butthole.

Dude, if you do nothing else for me,

let me smell a girl's butthole,

you f***ing a**hole.

No, you can't call.

You're a f***ing idiot, dude.

Why are you hovering over me?

Oh, Brooke--

Brooke, Brooke.

Oh sad.

Look at this.

Oh, Leila, you dirty--

Leila, you dirty

f***ing little b*tch.

Leila, you dirty little

f***ing b*tch.

Oh, Leila, you f***ing

have no idea.

Yes, I was calling for Tiffany.

So two girls for six?

Okay.

Shut your f***ing mouth.

You didn't score it.

I scored it and I stashed it.

You f***ing idiot.

You've done nothing for me.

Oh sh*t, oh sh*t.

Dude, who was the n*gger

in charge over here?

- Who was the n*gger--

- Just that little bit?

Don't look at it.

No, b*tch, I got a whole lot.

You know what?

I already have to sh*t.

So why don't you go f***ing lay down

and assume the position,

since you're going to be the one

that's the receptacle of my doo-doo?

You're going to look back in years on this,

when you're old and your kids see this

and you're going to be

so f***ing ashamed of yourself

because of the opportunities

that were provided with fun

literally just to f***ing hang out,

the fun that we have

and you f***ed it up because

you're-- an idiot.

When I dream

I dream of you

And if I'm wrong,

we'll know it's true

It takes more than sacrifice

to keep love--

It disappears

just like the dew...

Dew-www

Well, there's cool water

in you

Well, you know

that there's

Cool water in you

You know there's

Cool water in you

Well, there's cool water

In you-oo-oo.

You know how many times

I've stood at this f***ing window,

like, waiting for hookers,

just staring?

Imagining what their little buttholes

are gonna smell like?

- Answer it.

- It's the girls.

- Yeah.

- Here you go.

Hello? Hello?

Hi hi.

Oh, 11M.

Okay.

Dude, don't film this.

Come on, man.

Ant, come here.

Come here, dude. Show us.

Please come here.

- Show-- show 'em.

- It's a bit shrunken right now.

Holy-- oh my God.

Is that like,

like not even, like, aroused?

- That's not even aroused.

- Dude, how do you guys know?

Well, look at it.

How do you not know?

- Do you have kids? You should.

- But listen--

Yeah.

- Like this.

- Hi, J.P. Carline called.

Puff is not even

in New York City anymore.

I don't know what to say.

I am so so

so so sorry.

But she did say if you wanted

to go to Miami right now

she promises

he'll have time for you.

Yeah, just tell him we're in.

I'm gonna get the f***ing CD prepped.

We're getting to the hotel.

I gotta take a shower and sh*t.

And then we'll be there at 7:00.

It's like 4:
30 now. Don't f***ing worry.

We have the nightclub right here, LIV.

- If you guys want we'll get a table.

- How's the p*ssy?

You obviously haven't seen the club.

It's the sickest club in the world.

- Is it?

- It's right here.

I'm supposed to meet

Diddy tonight.

You're kidding me?

Fantastic, man!

Dude, I'm doing a gig here for sure.

7:
00.

What time is it?

Where's the other

f***ing thing over there?

So I'm gonna go chill at Didd's,

And I don't know what's up.

I don't know if he just wants to chill

and have some drinks, listen to music.

I don't know if he's gonna

play me some tunes.

I'm gonna just try and be receptive

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Casey Affleck

Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988) and the miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), and Gerry (2002) – and in Steven Soderbergh's comedy heist trilogy Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006). Affleck's breakthrough was in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and acted in the crime drama Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here. He then had a string of successful films in the early 2010s, with Tower Heist, ParaNorman, and Interstellar, and received particular praise for his performance as an outlaw in the indie film Ain't Them Bodies Saints. In 2016, Affleck starred as the lead in the drama film Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as Lee Chandler, a grief-stricken man, he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2017, Affleck received critical acclaim for his leading role in the supernatural drama film A Ghost Story. more…

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