1 | [[quoteright:237:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Alexander_Payne_5939.jpg]] |
2 | |
3 | Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an acclaimed American filmmaker from Omaha, Nebraska. |
4 | ----- |
5 | [[AC: Directed:]] |
6 | [[index]] |
7 | * ''Film/CitizenRuth'' (1996) -- A drug addict's latest pregnancy becomes a political football in the abortion debate. |
8 | * ''Film/{{Election}}'' (1999) -- An idealistic high school teacher tries to sabotage a haughty overachiever's chances of becoming the class president. |
9 | * ''Film/AboutSchmidt'' (2002) -- A recently retired/widowed actuary drives to his daughter's wedding. HilarityEnsues. |
10 | * ''Film/{{Sideways}}'' (2004) -- Two former college roommates go on a road trip through Santa Barbara Wine Country before one of them gets married. The same guy has sex with a lot of women, the other...not so much. |
11 | * ''Film/TheDescendants'' (2011) -- A Hawaiian aristocrat tries to reconnect with his daughters when his wife goes into a coma. |
12 | * ''Film/{{Nebraska}}'' (2013) -- An elderly man has his son drive him from Montana to Nebraska so the father can claim a million-dollar prize he thinks he's won. Along the way, they meet many of the old man's friends and relatives and try to repair their strained relationship. |
13 | * ''Film/{{Downsizing}}'' (2017) -- A social satire in which an average man thinks he would have a better life if he were to shrink. |
14 | * ''Film/TheHoldovers'' (2023) -- A curmudgeonly teacher at a private boarding school is tasked with supervising the students who can't go home for the holidays. |
15 | [[/index]] |
16 | |
17 | ---- |
18 | !!His films provide examples of: |
19 | |
20 | %% * AuteurLicense: Gained it after ''Election'', to the point where he has final cut on every film he makes. |
21 | %% * BittersweetEnding: His endings are this at happiest. With the exceptions of [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding About Schmidt]] and [[EarnYourHappyEnding Nebraska.]]]] |
22 | %% * BlackComedy |
23 | %% * ButtMonkey: [[Film/{{Election}} Jim]], [[Film/AboutSchmidt Warren]], [[Film/{{Sideways}} Miles]] and [[Film/{{Nebraska}} David and Woody]] can attest to this. |
24 | %% * CreatorProvincialism: Alexander Payne ''is'' Omaha. |
25 | %% * CreatorThumbprint: Existential crises and satirical depictions of American society. |
26 | %% * CringeComedy |
27 | %% * EagleLand: Overwhelmingly type 2. |
28 | * GreyAndGrayMorality: His films are about the modern person, fallible but complex. Heroes are not perfect and any character that seems antagonistic still has redeeming qualities. |
29 | * SlidingScaleofIdealismVsCynicism: His films generally lie a tad more towards the cynical end of the spectrum, however his films aren't generally mean spirited. His protagonists are still pretty likable to route for and care about. |
30 | * TheFilmOfTheBook: ''Citizen Ruth'', ''Nebraska'', ''Downsizing'', and ''The Holdovers'' are the only films he's directed which are not adaptations of novels. |
31 | * UncreditedRole: He was an uncredited script doctor for ''Film/MeetTheParents'' and ''Film/JurassicPark3''. |
32 | %% * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Especially his first two films. |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Creator / AlexanderPayne
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load