{"id":106287,"date":"2017-01-01T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106287"},"modified":"2016-12-30T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:13:11","slug":"the-big-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/the-big-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big <I>I<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101562\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101562\" class=\"wp-image-101562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chasing-amy-51_1600x900-1024x563.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from <i>Chasing Amy<\/i>, 1997.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chasing Amy\u00a0<em>and the toxic\u00a0\u201cnerd masculinity\u201d of the nineties.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin Smith\u2019s romantic comedy <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118842\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chasing Amy<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, now almost two decades old, was a big deal for my generation of nerds. Back in 1997, all of our dorky interests, from comic books to video games, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/on-the-irrationality-of-freedom-force-gamings-forgotten-superhero-series-145\">remained hidden<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> far from the prying eyes of the American mainstream. To us, the unapologetic <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=fanboy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fanboy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Smith had emerged as something of a nerd culture Shakespeare\u2014the best of us, a man who captured our hopes and dreams in his character\u2019s lengthy, pop culture\u2013laced monologues. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chasing Amy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which concerned sensitive-yet-sleazy Ben Affleck\u2019s pursuit of the bisexual comic-book artist Joey Lauren Adams, constituted Smith\u2019s first serious attempt to tell a meaningful dramatic story against the backdrop of the geek demimonde he\u2019d explored in his previous slacker comedies <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0109445\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clerks<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113749\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mallrats<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We were supposed to identify with (or at least pity) Affleck\u2019s comic-book penciler Holden McNeil as he tried to come to terms with Adams\u2019 sexual history, which involved group sex and gay sex and all sorts of other activities alien to his own heteronormative experience. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chasing Amy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was always an uncomfortable movie, a film that encapsulated the worst aspects of narcissistic <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/27\/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nerd entitlement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at its late-nineties peak, but twenty years later I couldn\u2019t even bring myself to finish rewatching it. When it was released, I begged my father to drive me to Raleigh\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ambassadorcinemas.com\/the-rialto\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rialto Theatre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and left that first showing enraptured, believing that some aspect of my privileged nerdy male \u201cstruggle\u201d had been set to film. Kevin Smith was the first director whose <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyscript.com\/scripts\/chasing_amy.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scripts I had ever read<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; before I\u2019d encountered his work, I hadn\u2019t ever considered the form. It helped that Smith was such a dreadful cinematographer, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2014\/03\/applying-the-auteur-theory-to-kevin-smith\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a fact he admits without shame<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because it meant his movies were the equivalent of ninety-minute script readings. Yet why, in the course of dreaming about becoming a \u201cHollywood writer\u201d\u2014whatever that meant\u2014had I lingered over this material? How had it ever resonated with anyone at all, myself included? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer was simple but painful: I was one of those stereotypical \u201cguys who liked movies,\u201d and I was stupid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/the-big-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Chasing Amy\u00a0and the toxic\u00a0\u201cnerd masculinity\u201d of the nineties.\u00a0 &nbsp; Kevin Smith\u2019s romantic comedy Chasing Amy, now almost two decades old, was a big deal for my generation of nerds. 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