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* CondescendingCompassion: This is the attitude of most of the white characters Monk comes across. While they continually espouse the need for more black stories and their desire to make their voices heard, they only want to do so through what they consider the best stories and on their own terms. It's most obvious when the white Literary Award judges decide to give "Fuck" the top prize and completely ignore Monk and Sintara Golden's objections to the novel's "merits".
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* NotSoSimilar: While Monk initially believes that Sinatra Golden’s book ''We's Lives In Da Ghetto'' is the type of pandering UncleTomFoolery book that ''Fuck'' is satirizing, a conversation with her shows that despite her background she did [[ShownTheirWork do actual research and interviews with actual people and even put in direct quotes]] while Monk made everything up and thus she recognizes ''Fuck'' as the lie that it is.
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* NotSoSimilar: While Monk initially believes that Sinatra Sintara Golden’s book ''We's Lives In Da Ghetto'' is the type of pandering UncleTomFoolery book that ''Fuck'' is satirizing, a conversation with her shows that despite her background she did [[ShownTheirWork do actual research and interviews with actual people and even put in direct quotes]] while Monk made everything up and thus she recognizes ''Fuck'' as the lie that it is.
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''American Fiction'' is a 2023 dramedy film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/SterlingKBrown, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss Creator/AdamBrody and Creator/IssaRae. It is based oh the novel ''Erasure'' by Perc Val Everett.
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''American Fiction'' is a 2023 dramedy film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/SterlingKBrown, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss Creator/AdamBrody and Creator/IssaRae. It is based oh the novel ''Erasure'' by Perc Val Percival Everett.
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** The entire film itself is a HUGE Take That at the publishing industry and the movie industry for being majority white and only caring about works depicting black pain that appeal to their own sense of WhiteGuilt, never black joy or black success. Some may argue it's {{Anvilicious}}, but SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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* WhiteGuilt: Wiley is a movie producer that specializes in these types of films with his latest one being a horror flick, ''Plantation Annihilation.''
* YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheated on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man.
* YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheated on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man.
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* WhiteGuilt: Wiley is a movie producer that specializes in these types of films with his latest one being a horror flick, ''Plantation Annihilation.''
* YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheated on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man.''
* YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheated on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man.
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* FourthDateMarriage: We do know that time is passing throughout the film, but we don't know quite how much, so we have to assume that the housekeeper and the cop have gone out a few times in years prior and they are rekindling their romance in their golden years, resulting in a sweet beach wedding that Monk attends.
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* FourthDateMarriage: We do know that time is passing throughout the film, but we don't know quite how much, so we have to assume that the housekeeper Lorraine and the cop have gone out a few times in years prior and they are rekindling their romance in their golden years, resulting in a sweet beach wedding that Monk attends.
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* TheHeroDies: The StoryWithinAStory ''My Pafology/Fuck'' apparently ends with the protagonist getting killed by a police officer. [[spoiler: The movie Wiley and Monk make about the events of the publication of ''Fuck'' also ends with Monk being killed by the police, since that is the only ending Wiley feels will be good and profitable (despite Monk's objections).]]
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* IAmOneOfThoseToo: When Monk is interviewing the movie director Wiley and pretending to be a fugitive who was once in prison as part of his persona, Wiley reveals that he has been in prison for a month. Monk has to be vague and secretive about his experience to avoid tipping Wiley off that he was never actually in prison.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Lisa says to Monk that their father always favored Monk, leading to Lisa and Cliff becoming closer to each other to compensate.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:After reading Monk's movie script about his experiences, Wiley thinks it needs a better ending. When Monk jokingly pitches one where he is gunned down by the police when they raid the awards ceremony to arrest Stagg R Leigh, he loves it, showing that he completely missed the script's message about how the media silos black characters into specific stories like police brutality.]]
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Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a black author who is struggling to sell his books because audiences only want to read books from black writers if they wrote about “black things.” As family financial troubles start mounting up, he writes a stereotypical “black” novel on a whim in one night to prove his agent wrong. Only problem is publishers love it, and so do audiences.
The film premiered in December of 2023 and has been nominated for five Academy Awards,
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Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a black author who is struggling to sell his books because audiences only want to read books from black writers if they wrote about “black things.” As family financial troubles start mounting up, he writes a stereotypical “black” novel on a whim in one night to prove his agent wrong. Only problem is is...[[SpringtimeForHitler publishers love it, and so do audiences.
audiences]].
The film premiered in December of 2023 and has been nominated for five AcademyAwards, Awards.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After the very tough scene where his mother tells him "I always knew you weren't a queer," Cliff decides to fly back and candidly tells Coraline, "This family will break your heart." [[spoiler: Sadly, he's right. Monk snaps at Coraline when he finds a copy of "Fuck" in her bag and she defends the book to him, so she breaks up with him over his rude comments.]]
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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Monk’s sister, Lisa, is a doctor and his brother, Cliff, is a plastic surgeon. In contrast, Monk himself presumably has a Doctorate as a college professor.
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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Monk’s sister, Lisa, is a doctor an M.D. and his brother, Cliff, is a plastic surgeon. In contrast, Monk himself presumably has a Doctorate an academic doctorate as a college professor.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: ''Erasure'' has Lisa killed by an anti-abortion extremist, rather than a heart attack.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Both his father and Monk are roasted by his family for having kissed a white woman and the latter apparently brought a white woman home one time.
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* BrokenPedestal: What happens to Monk when he finds out his father cheated on his mother the entire time he was alive. Monk loved and idolized his father, so of course he never noticed, but his brother and sister knew the whole time, which is why they bonded with one another and not Monk nor their father. His sister even saw his mother kiss a white woman, which they all felt was just not okay.
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* BrokenPedestal: What happens to Monk when he finds out his father cheated on his mother the entire time he was alive. Monk loved and idolized his father, so of course he never noticed, but his brother and sister knew the whole time, which is why they bonded with one another and not Monk nor their father. His sister even saw his mother father kiss a white woman, which they all felt was just not okay.
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* MinorityShowGhetto: [[invoked]] Monk is a talented writer, but his manuscripts keep getting rejected by publishers that want him to write more “Black” stories and his books are even put into African American literature section of the bookstore despite having nothing to do with it. He writes My Pafology as a parody of the tropes in this.
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** The entire film itself is a HUGE Take That at the publishing industry and the movie industry for being majority white and only caring about works depicting black pain, pain that appeal to their own sense of WhiteGuilt, never black joy or black success. Some may argue it's {{Anvilicious}}, but SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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* OpinionOverride: The film opens with Monk teaching a college literature class where a white SoapboxSadie objects to the class having to learn about ''[[Creator/FlanneryOConnor The Artificial Nigger]]'' because she finds the title offensive. Monk tells her that if a black man like him can accept the title, a white woman like her should be able to too. Her refusal to do so leads to him shouting at her, causing her to leave the class in tears and Monk subsequently being disciplined by the college.
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* DisappearedDad: Monk's father was mentioned to be a chronic cheater who traveled around under the pretense of "going to conferences" but instead, he was cheating on their mother for years. His mother later reveals that he knew, and he cheated because he was a genius, and she points out that geniuses are notoriously lonely because they can't connect to the average person, and that's why she stayed with him in spite of all the infidelity. Sadly, this rocks Monk to the core, as he loved his father and had no idea about the affairs, but his siblings did. Cliff points out that he was his father's favorite, so he didn't bond with his siblings, which made them all distant and slightly resentful of each other. He does end up mending fences with Cliff, though.
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* DisappearedDad: Monk's father was mentioned to be a chronic cheater who traveled around under the pretense of "going to conferences" but instead, he was cheating on their mother for years. His mother later reveals that he she knew, and he cheated because he was a genius, and she points out that geniuses are notoriously lonely because they can't connect to the average person, and that's why she stayed with him in spite of all the infidelity. Sadly, this rocks Monk to the core, as he loved his father and had no idea about the affairs, but his siblings did. Cliff points out that he was his father's favorite, so he didn't bond with his siblings, which made them all distant and slightly resentful of each other. He does end up mending fences with Cliff, though.
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* DecemberDecemberRomance: Monk and his mother's housekeeper rekindles a romance with a cop from the town where they have a beach house and she has a FourthDateMarriage with him, but it's portrayed as a good thing and not something irrational. They obviously had a prior thing for each other and decide to waste no time since both of them are probably in their sixties, if not older.
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* DecemberDecemberRomance: Monk and his Monk's mother's housekeeper rekindles a romance with a cop from the town where they have a beach house and she has a FourthDateMarriage with him, but it's portrayed as a good thing and not something irrational. They obviously had a prior thing for each other and decide to waste no time since both of them are probably in their sixties, if not older.
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* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However, he still is reeling from the loss of his [[spoiler: sister]], his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.
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* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However, he still is reeling from the loss of his [[spoiler: sister]], his mothers mother's dementia is still progressing progressing, and his love interest Coraline [[spoiler: will likely never speak to him again.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: What happens to Monk when he finds out his father cheated on his mother the entire time he was alive. Monk loved and idolized his father, so of course he never noticed, but his brother and sister knew the whole time, which is why they bonded with one another and not Monk nor their father. His sister even saw his mother kiss a white woman, which they all felt was just not okay.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Both his father and Monk are roasted by his family for having kissed a white woman and the latter apparently brought a white woman home one time.
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* NoodleIncident: The family doesn't elaborate on when Monk went out with a white woman, but it's a RunningGag that they did not approve when he brought her around at some point. It apparently runs in the family since his sister said she saw their cheating father kiss a white woman once.
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* RunningGag: His family teasing him about bringing a white woman home one time.
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* TakeThat: Understandably, there are a few shots taken at Creator/TylerPerry, given that his empire is built upon pretty much nothing but films about UncleTomfoolery and other negative black stereotypes.
** The entire film itself is a HUGE Take That at the publishing industry and the movie industry for being majority white and only caring about works depicting black pain, never black joy or black success. Some may argue it's {{Anvilicious}}, but SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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* WhereTheWhiteWomenAt: Monk's father once kissed a white woman while still married to his mother, which his sister saw. Monk also gets made fun of by his siblings and mother for having brought a white woman home at some point.
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* MeetCute: Monk bumps into Coraline when he's about to go inside and she drops some tomatoes out of her bag, so he goes over to help her and then strikes up a conversation and a friendship that later leads to romance.
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* ActionAllusion: Adorably, Coraline is a lawyer slash public defender, which is a CallBack to the actress, Erika Alexander, from her famous role on ''Series/LivingSingle'' where she played [[RhymesOnADime Maxine Shaw, Attorney At Law.]]
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* AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died.
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* ActionAllusion: Adorably, Coraline is a lawyer slash public defender, which is a CallBack to the actress, Erika Alexander, from her famous role on ''Series/LivingSingle'' where she played [[RhymesOnADime Maxine Shaw, Attorney At Law.]]
* AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died. Coraline accidentally blurts out that she thought the house was haunted because there was a rumor that "an old man blew his brains out in there" and then she realizes it's the old man's son she's talking to and she profusely apologizes and offers him a drink to make up for it. They hit it off after that.
* AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died. Coraline accidentally blurts out that she thought the house was haunted because there was a rumor that "an old man blew his brains out in there" and then she realizes it's the old man's son she's talking to and she profusely apologizes and offers him a drink to make up for it. They hit it off after that.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Ellison family has so many issues that it's readily apparent why Monk avoids them. His mother is a judgmental homophobe. She means well, but she says cruel things to her children at times like calling Monk fat when he's pretty much the average weight for a man his age and later telling the recently outed Cliff, during one of her Alzheimer moments, "I always knew you weren't a queer." His sister has been divorced since her husband cheated on her and is back to smoking again, which [[spoiler: is possibly what kills her in the first act.]] His father committed suicide and was cheating on his mother the entire time he was a kid, but since Monk loved him so much, he never caught on and had to be told by his siblings later. Then there's Monk himself, who is a brilliant writer, but he is also judgmental and sharp-tongued, often insulting anyone who angers him to the Nth degree, and it ends up [[spoiler: costing him a loving relationship with a woman he truly liked.]]
* BlackAndNerdy: Monk actually has to lose the glasses and try to dress more casual when he's forced to do a face to face meeting with the executive who wants to buy the movie rights, so he lowers his voice and tries to use more slang to sell that he's an ex-con fugitive. He does fumble with the persona, though, and asks for a Sauvignon when the waiter comes by, which is not something your average ex-con would order.
* DifferingPrioritiesBreakUp: [[spoiler: Monk was already on edge because of the stress of his mother's failing health and the book blowing up when he hates it, so when he finds a copy in Coraline's bag, it makes him snap at her rather nastily. Coraline, however, does not take his judgmental abuse and breaks up with him over it, sadly not returning his calls and texts when he eventually realizes his folly and wants to apologize.]]
* DisappearedDad: Monk's father was mentioned to be a chronic cheater who traveled around under the pretense of "going to conferences" but instead, he was cheating on their mother for years. His mother later reveals that he knew, and he cheated because he was a genius, and she points out that geniuses are notoriously lonely because they can't connect to the average person, and that's why she stayed with him in spite of all the infidelity. Sadly, this rocks Monk to the core, as he loved his father and had no idea about the affairs, but his siblings did. Cliff points out that he was his father's favorite, so he didn't bond with his siblings, which made them all distant and slightly resentful of each other. He does end up mending fences with Cliff, though.
* DisappearedDad: Monk's father was mentioned to be a chronic cheater who traveled around under the pretense of "going to conferences" but instead, he was cheating on their mother for years. His mother later reveals that he knew, and he cheated because he was a genius, and she points out that geniuses are notoriously lonely because they can't connect to the average person, and that's why she stayed with him in spite of all the infidelity. Sadly, this rocks Monk to the core, as he loved his father and had no idea about the affairs, but his siblings did. Cliff points out that he was his father's favorite, so he didn't bond with his siblings, which made them all distant and slightly resentful of each other. He does end up mending fences with Cliff, though.
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* HeadDesk: Monk’s response when some businesspeople approval of his ironic proposal to rename ''My Pafology'' to ''Fuck''
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* HeadDesk: Monk’s response when some businesspeople approval of his ironic proposal to rename ''My Pafology'' to ''Fuck''''Fuck.''
* RefugeInAudacity: This trope fuels the entire film. Monk writes an intentionally bad urban fiction book, and so of course, it blows up and becomes a bestseller, netting him a $750k advance and not one but TWO movie deals. He is absolutely mortified at all of it, which is the conflict of the film.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It's very sad, but it's not unrealistic that [[spoiler: Coraline dumps Monk after their big argument and won't return his calls and text messages.]]
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* PetTheDog: It's not entirely within her control due to the Alzheimer's, but Monk's mother, like a lot of black boomers, seems intolerant of gay men...until the wedding reception. She is seen dancing with Cliff's two gay lovers and seems perfectly content doing so, which is nice considering earlier when she just destroys Cliff's spirit by saying, in a spell of her condition, "I always knew you weren't a queer" while slow dancing with her.
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* AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died
* BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and the MinorityShowGhetto
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.
* BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and the MinorityShowGhetto
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.
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* AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died
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* BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and theMinorityShowGhetto
MinorityShowGhetto.
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother.However However, he still is reeling from the loss of his [[spoiler: sister]], his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.again.
* ContrivedCoincidence: It is a bit contrived that Monk returns home [[spoiler: just before his sister dies, leaving him needing to step up and take care of his mother and form a bond with his very troubled brother Cliff as well. He initially doesn't want to sell the book despite the truly insane advance that's offered to him--$750,000--but after his sister dies and he finds out his mother has early onset Alzheimer's, he reluctantly takes the deal.]]
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Monk and his mother's housekeeper rekindles a romance with a cop from the town where they have a beach house and she has a FourthDateMarriage with him, but it's portrayed as a good thing and not something irrational. They obviously had a prior thing for each other and decide to waste no time since both of them are probably in their sixties, if not older.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Sadly, Coraline doesn't return his calls after their big fight. It's possible over time, maybe she forgives him and reaches out, but the ending is with him alone again and it was a hard lesson for him to learn.]]
* {{Foil}}: Sindra and Monk are foils to one another. Both are black authors who write urban fiction, but Sindra has accepted this particular type of black culture while Monk soundly rejects it, stating that it causes white people to think they can't be anything more than people who struggle. Sindra argues that he is instead mad at ''white people'' for believing black people are stereotypical struggling thugs and hoes, not at her and not at the black community. This causes Monk to have a bit of an epiphany, even though he disagrees with her.
* FourthDateMarriage: We do know that time is passing throughout the film, but we don't know quite how much, so we have to assume that the housekeeper and the cop have gone out a few times in years prior and they are rekindling their romance in their golden years, resulting in a sweet beach wedding that Monk attends.
* BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and the
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother.
* ContrivedCoincidence: It is a bit contrived that Monk returns home [[spoiler: just before his sister dies, leaving him needing to step up and take care of his mother and form a bond with his very troubled brother Cliff as well. He initially doesn't want to sell the book despite the truly insane advance that's offered to him--$750,000--but after his sister dies and he finds out his mother has early onset Alzheimer's, he reluctantly takes the deal.]]
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Monk and his mother's housekeeper rekindles a romance with a cop from the town where they have a beach house and she has a FourthDateMarriage with him, but it's portrayed as a good thing and not something irrational. They obviously had a prior thing for each other and decide to waste no time since both of them are probably in their sixties, if not older.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Sadly, Coraline doesn't return his calls after their big fight. It's possible over time, maybe she forgives him and reaches out, but the ending is with him alone again and it was a hard lesson for him to learn.]]
* {{Foil}}: Sindra and Monk are foils to one another. Both are black authors who write urban fiction, but Sindra has accepted this particular type of black culture while Monk soundly rejects it, stating that it causes white people to think they can't be anything more than people who struggle. Sindra argues that he is instead mad at ''white people'' for believing black people are stereotypical struggling thugs and hoes, not at her and not at the black community. This causes Monk to have a bit of an epiphany, even though he disagrees with her.
* FourthDateMarriage: We do know that time is passing throughout the film, but we don't know quite how much, so we have to assume that the housekeeper and the cop have gone out a few times in years prior and they are rekindling their romance in their golden years, resulting in a sweet beach wedding that Monk attends.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Monk spreading [[spoiler: Lisa’s]] ashes into the beach is interrupted by a nosy complaining neighbor that Cliff has to chase offoff.
* GallowsHumor: [[spoiler: His sister's final letter for her surviving family members is exactly this and it's fitting given what we see of her before she unfortunately passes away. It visibly makes Monk and his family chuckle as they cry before dispersing her ashes in the ocean per her wishes.]]
* GallowsHumor: [[spoiler: His sister's final letter for her surviving family members is exactly this and it's fitting given what we see of her before she unfortunately passes away. It visibly makes Monk and his family chuckle as they cry before dispersing her ashes in the ocean per her wishes.]]
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* InsufferableGenius: Monk is clearly an intelligent man and talented writer, but many characters point out his pride and temper tends to get in his way
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Cliff and his many boyfriends are portrayed this way. He doesn't behave in any stereotypical manner, but the brief interactions with his lovers show he prefers effeminate men.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Cliff and his many boyfriends are portrayed this way. He doesn't behave in any stereotypical manner, but the brief interactions with his lovers show he prefers effeminate men.
* {{Parody}}: Monk writes "My Pafology" / "Fuck" as a parody of the urban fiction books he despises so much, so of course it immediately blows up and nets him an advance of freaking ''$750,000''. When he hears this, he is absolutely speechless.
* TheReveal: Parodied. When "Fuck" wins the Literary Award, we see Monk go up and take it from the host, about to reveal himself to the world...and then it cuts to black and we find out Monk wrote a screenplay about his life and experiences and is pitching it to the executive who's making "Plantation Annihilation." He also mentions two other endings before the real film ends shortly after.
* ShowWithinAShow: There's the fake talk show that has his fake persona Stagg on briefly, but the movie also transitions into showing us that Monk wrote a screenplay of his life and experiences and then pitches it to the douche who's making "Plantation Annhiliation" in a fairly smooth and creative cut.
* ShowWithinAShow: There's the fake talk show that has his fake persona Stagg on briefly, but the movie also transitions into showing us that Monk wrote a screenplay of his life and experiences and then pitches it to the douche who's making "Plantation Annhiliation" in a fairly smooth and creative cut.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Cliff is portrayed this way, so much so that Monk either didn't notice or didn't care to notice. Cliff also is a very late bloomer for coming out, as he didn't do so until well into adulthood ''and after having a wife and kids.'' It's not fair, but it is understandable that his wife and kids hate his guts since as soon as the news got out, the whole family was humiliated by their own community. That being said, he doesn't display many of the gay stereotypical behavior except for having a lot of sexual partners and they're quite a bit younger than him. Despite this, it's not a negative portrayal of a gay man.]]
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* WhiteGuilt: Wiley is a movie producer that specializes in these types of films with his latest one being a horror flick, ''Plantation Annihilation''
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* MinorityShowGhetto: Discussed. Monk is a talented writer, but his manuscripts keep getting rejected by publishers that want him to write more “Black” stories and his books are even put into African American literature section of the bookstore despite having nothing to do with it. He writes ''My Pafology'' as a parody of the tropes in this
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Thelonious "Monk" Ellison Is is a black author who is struggling to sell his books because audiences only want to read books from black writers if they wrote about “black things.” As family financial troubles start mounting up, he writes a stereotypical “black” novel on a whim in one night to prove his agent wrong. Only problem is publishers love it, and so do audiences.
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*AteHisGun: It’s heavily implied this is how Monk’s father died
*BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and the MinorityShowGhetto
*BerserkButton: Monk has little tolerance for WhiteGuilt pandering and the MinorityShowGhetto
* FugitiveArc: Monk pretends that his pen name, "Stagg R. Leigh", is a wanted fugitive as an excuse not to show up in person when he can.
*TheFunInFuneral: Monk spreading [[spoiler: Lisa’s]] ashes into the beach is interrupted by a nosy complaining neighbor that Cliff has to chase off
*HeadDesk: Monk’s response when some businesspeople approval of his ironic proposal to rename ''My Pafology'' to ''Fuck''
*HealthcareMotivation: A major factor that pushes Monk into writing ''My Pafology'' is the need to provide high-quality nursing home care for his mother’s worsening dementia
*TheFunInFuneral: Monk spreading [[spoiler: Lisa’s]] ashes into the beach is interrupted by a nosy complaining neighbor that Cliff has to chase off
*HeadDesk: Monk’s response when some businesspeople approval of his ironic proposal to rename ''My Pafology'' to ''Fuck''
*HealthcareMotivation: A major factor that pushes Monk into writing ''My Pafology'' is the need to provide high-quality nursing home care for his mother’s worsening dementia
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* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote “My Pafology” to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller and winning prestigious award, becoming Monk's most successful work, much to his chagrin.
* UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes a success.
* UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes a success.
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*InsufferableGenius: Monk is clearly an intelligent man and talented writer, but many characters point out his pride and temper tends to get in his way
*MinorityShowGhetto: Discussed. Monk is a talented writer, but his manuscripts keep getting rejected by publishers that want him to write more “Black” stories and his books are even put into African American literature section of the bookstore despite having nothing to do with it. He writes ''My Pafology'' as a parody of the tropes in this
*MultipleEndings: Monk pitches Wiley multiple ways to end [[spoiler: the movie based on his recent experiences;]]
** [[spoiler: [[NoEnding The story ends just as Monk gets on stage and is about to confess something]].]] Wiley rejects this for being too ambiguous.
** [[spoiler: [[RaceForYourLove Monk abruptly runs out of the award ceremony to Coraline’s house]].]] Wiley rejects this one for being too cheesy.
** [[spoiler: An annoyed Monk pitches an ending where the police raid the awards ceremony after Monk’s confession that he is Stagg R Leigh, [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet mistake his trophy for a weapon]], and [[MultipleGunshotDeath gun him down in a hail of bullets]].]] [[SpringtimeForHitler Wiley approves of this one.]]
*NiceToTheWaiter: While Wiley is polite and pandering to Monk, he later browbeats an intern for bringing him a beverage can moist from condensation.
*NotSoSimilar: While Monk initially believes that Sinatra Golden’s book ''We's Lives In Da Ghetto'' is the type of pandering UncleTomFoolery book that ''Fuck'' is satirizing, a conversation with her shows that despite her background she did [[ShownTheirWork do actual research and interviews with actual people and even put in direct quotes]] while Monk made everything up and thus she recognizes ''Fuck'' as the lie that it is.
*NotThatKindOfDoctor: Monk’s sister, Lisa, is a doctor and his brother, Cliff, is a plastic surgeon. In contrast, Monk himself presumably has a Doctorate as a college professor.
*RageAgainstTheAuthor: When Monk is initially writing ''My Pafology'', he imagines the scene of the 2 characters he’s writing. When one shoots the other, the shot character calls Monk out in annoyance to which he just shrugs.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote“My Pafology” ''My Pafology'' to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is WhiteGuilt books are not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller seller, getting a movie deal, and winning a prestigious award, becoming Monk's most successful work, much to his chagrin.
* UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes asuccess.success.
*WhiteGuilt: Wiley is a movie producer that specializes in these types of films with his latest one being a horror flick, ''Plantation Annihilation''
*YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheater on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man
*MinorityShowGhetto: Discussed. Monk is a talented writer, but his manuscripts keep getting rejected by publishers that want him to write more “Black” stories and his books are even put into African American literature section of the bookstore despite having nothing to do with it. He writes ''My Pafology'' as a parody of the tropes in this
*MultipleEndings: Monk pitches Wiley multiple ways to end [[spoiler: the movie based on his recent experiences;]]
** [[spoiler: [[NoEnding The story ends just as Monk gets on stage and is about to confess something]].]] Wiley rejects this for being too ambiguous.
** [[spoiler: [[RaceForYourLove Monk abruptly runs out of the award ceremony to Coraline’s house]].]] Wiley rejects this one for being too cheesy.
** [[spoiler: An annoyed Monk pitches an ending where the police raid the awards ceremony after Monk’s confession that he is Stagg R Leigh, [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet mistake his trophy for a weapon]], and [[MultipleGunshotDeath gun him down in a hail of bullets]].]] [[SpringtimeForHitler Wiley approves of this one.]]
*NiceToTheWaiter: While Wiley is polite and pandering to Monk, he later browbeats an intern for bringing him a beverage can moist from condensation.
*NotSoSimilar: While Monk initially believes that Sinatra Golden’s book ''We's Lives In Da Ghetto'' is the type of pandering UncleTomFoolery book that ''Fuck'' is satirizing, a conversation with her shows that despite her background she did [[ShownTheirWork do actual research and interviews with actual people and even put in direct quotes]] while Monk made everything up and thus she recognizes ''Fuck'' as the lie that it is.
*NotThatKindOfDoctor: Monk’s sister, Lisa, is a doctor and his brother, Cliff, is a plastic surgeon. In contrast, Monk himself presumably has a Doctorate as a college professor.
*RageAgainstTheAuthor: When Monk is initially writing ''My Pafology'', he imagines the scene of the 2 characters he’s writing. When one shoots the other, the shot character calls Monk out in annoyance to which he just shrugs.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote
* UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes a
*WhiteGuilt: Wiley is a movie producer that specializes in these types of films with his latest one being a horror flick, ''Plantation Annihilation''
*YourCheatingHeart: ItRunsInTheFamily for the Ellison’s; Monk’s father cheater on his mother, Lisa’s husband cheated on her, and Cliff cheated on his wife with a man
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* HypocriticalHumor: Judges for the Literary Award talk about how ''Fuck'' is important as a sign that people are listening to black voices, when three of the five judges present are ignoring the black man and black woman actually rejecting the idea that ''Fuck'' is worthy of an award.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote “My Pafology” to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller and winning prestigious award, becomingMonks Monk's most successful work, much to his chagrin.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote “My Pafology” to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller and winning prestigious award, becoming
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''AmericanFiction'' is a 2023 comedy film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/SterlingKBrown, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss. It is based oh the novel ''Erasure'' by Perc Val Everett.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison Is a black author who is struggling to sell his books because audiences only want to read books from black writers if they wrote about “black things.” As family financial troubles start mounting up, he writes a stereotypical “black” novel on a whim in one night to prove his agent wrong. Only problem is publishers love it, and so do audiences.
The film premiered in December of 2023
!! ''American Fiction'' provides examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote “My Pafology” to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller and winning prestigious award, becoming Monks most successful work, much to his chagrin.
UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes a success.
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''AmericanFiction'' is a 2023 comedy film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/SterlingKBrown, Creator/TraceeEllisRoss. It is based oh the novel ''Erasure'' by Perc Val Everett.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison Is a black author who is struggling to sell his books because audiences only want to read books from black writers if they wrote about “black things.” As family financial troubles start mounting up, he writes a stereotypical “black” novel on a whim in one night to prove his agent wrong. Only problem is publishers love it, and so do audiences.
The film premiered in December of 2023
!! ''American Fiction'' provides examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: Monk comes forward to the world about his writing of ''Fuck'' as a parody of itself and seems to be fine, even striking a movie deal based on his experiences. He’s also bonded with his brother. However his mothers dementia is still progressing and his love interest Coraline will likely never speak to him again.
* SpringTimeForHitler: Monk wrote “My Pafology” to spite itself and prove audiences that an UncleTomfoolery book is not good literature and when publishers and audiences love it, he doubles down trying to make it worse, only for them to love it more. Even renaming it ''Fuck'' doesn’t stop its success with the novel eventually becoming a best seller and winning prestigious award, becoming Monks most successful work, much to his chagrin.
UncleTomFoolery: Monk writes this type of book to spite the trope, but it becomes a success.
