{"id":458722,"date":"2022-06-07T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:02:29","slug":"watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Funny Pages&#8217;: A Comic-Book Comedy as Grungy (and Sketchy) as It Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df389ab01a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df389ab01a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Funny_Pages_A_Comic-Book_Comedy_as_Grungy_and_Sketchy_as_It_Gets%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Funny Pages&#8217;: A Comic-Book Comedy as Grungy (and Sketchy) as It Gets&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Funny_Pages_A_Comic-Book_Comedy_as_Grungy_and_Sketchy_as_It_Gets%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Funny Pages&#8217;: A Comic-Book Comedy as Grungy (and Sketchy) as It Gets&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-funny-pages-a-comic-book-comedy-as-grungy-and-sketchy-as-it-gets\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Funny_Pages_A_Comic-Book_Comedy_as_Grungy_and_Sketchy_as_It_Gets%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Funny Pages&#8217;: A Comic-Book Comedy as Grungy (and Sketchy) as It Gets&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Funny_Pages_A_Comic-Book_Comedy_as_Grungy_and_Sketchy_as_It_Gets%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Funny Pages&#8217;: A Comic-Book Comedy as Grungy (and Sketchy) as It Gets&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cFunny Pages,\u201d a scruffy, grungy, likably tossed-together sketchbook of a low-budget indie comedy, typifies a paradox that now runs through a great deal of independent cinema. The movie, set in a humdrum New Jersey suburbia, unfolds on the moldy bottom rung of the comic-book ladder. It centers on two friends who are obsessed with drawing their own comics, and it\u2019s about the insular world of geeks and creeps and pervs and weirdos that this brings them into contact with.<\/p>\n<p>Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), at 17, has left the posh home of his parents in Princeton and set up residence in downscale Trenton, where he hangs out at the local comic-book store along with his friend, the sweetly passive, long-haired, acne-ridden Miles (Miles Emanuel), who has a secret crush on him. These two eat, breathe, and sleep comic books. But they\u2019re not into superheroes. To them the comic-book world is all about bringing reality to the page. They\u2019re fixated on artists who work in the tradition of R. Crumb, like Daniel Clowes and Harvey Pekar and Peter Bagge. The everyday situations those artists create on the page are intensely relatable, making their comic books the opposite of fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing on its own terms (it\u2019s part of what makes Crumb the greatest artist ever to have worked in the comic-book medium). But hooked into that appeal is a certain DIY factor. You look at comics like Harvey Pekar\u2019s and think, \u201cMaybe I could actually do something like that.\u201d (It\u2019s the same struck-by-lightning feeling that Martin Scorsese got when he saw John Cassavetes\u2019 \u201cShadows\u201d \u2014 the revelation that he, too, could just go out into the New York streets and shoot a movie.)<\/p>\n<p>Trying to capture life raw, as opposed to drawing some rainy sci-fi dystopia featuring horned demigods, is what a certain comic-book impulse is all about, an impulse that\u2019s more connected to Charles Bukowski (or even Dostoevsky) than to the further adventures of men in capes. And you\u2019d think \u201cFunny Pages,\u201d in peering into the lives of these kinds of devotees, would itself be rooted in a certain scuzzball reality principle. In a way it is. The film\u2019s lighting is plain and glarey, and the settings are skeevy \u2014 like the basement apartment where Robert\u2019s cohorts masturbate to Tijuana bibles (those pre-underground pornographic knockoffs of famous comic s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s that show, for instance, Betty boffing Jughead), or the comic-book store that, in a few promising early scenes, looks like the setting for a \u201cHigh Fidelity\u201d of v\u00e9rit\u00e9 comics. \u201cFunny Pages\u201d was produced by Josh and Benny Safdie, who as filmmakers (\u201cUncut Gems\u201d) have made a certain gutter grunge quality their calling card, and the movie has an uncut Safdie flavor.<\/p>\n<p>What is doesn\u2019t have, oddly, is any sort of bone-deep reality factor. Almost nothing that happens in \u201cFunny Pages\u201d is particularly believable. The movie opens with Robert hanging out with his high-school art teacher, Mr. Katano (Stephen Adly Guigis), who insists on posing naked for him in order to illustrate a lesson about life drawing. This seems an extreme enough note to kick off a movie on, but to top it off, Mr. Katano races after Robert to apologize \u2014 and gets killed in a car accident. Now we\u2019re off and running into whatever-happens-happens-ville.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Kline, the writer and director of \u201cFunny Pages,\u201d has been an actor (he played Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s little brother in \u201cThe Squid and the Whale\u201d); he is also the son of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. In this, his debut as a filmmaker, he writes some acidly funny exchanges, and his affection for freaks and losers \u2014 and for the twisted purity of comic-book bohemians \u2014 is palpable. Yet watching \u201cFunny Pages,\u201d you can\u2019t help but wonder whether the fact that this film was made by the child of two celebrities is linked in some way to how nonchalant the movie is, in its storytelling, about flouting basic rules of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Robert goes to work in the office of a public defender (Marcia Debonis), and that\u2019s where he meets Wallace (Matthew Maher), a screw-loose cannon who once worked for the fabled Image Comics. He was just a color separator, but to Robert, who wants to break into the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, that makes him a god \u2014 or, at least, someone who once stood next to gods, or separated their colors. Robert latches onto Wallace, even though the man seems like a sub-incel, a seething lunatic. It only adds to the incongruity that Daniel Zolghadri, the engaging actor who plays Robert, is good-looking enough to come off less like a fervid comics nerd than like the Adrian Grenier of this group.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace was arrested for a brawl at the local pharmacy, and the only thing on his mind is going back to the pharmacy to get his revenge. If you ask him about comic books, he\u2019ll mostly scowl and gnash his teeth. Matthew Maher can be a mesmerizing actor, but the way he has been directed there\u2019s no hidden romance to the character, nothing that would draw us in. He and Robert do go back to the pharmacy (for a scene that seems torn out of a bad \u201980s comedy), and then Robert takes Wallace over to his family\u2019s house on Christmas morning. Why would he do this? It\u2019s supposed to speak to how alienated he is from his folks (who are played, rather likably, by Josh Pais and Maria Dizzia), but that\u2019s the kind of kneejerk anti-suburban \u2018tude that\u2019s been faking up indie <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> since \u201cDesperately Seeking Susan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are moments when \u201cFunny Pages\u201d recalls certain grunge-indie landmarks, like the early transgressive Todd Solondz films or Ronald Bronstein\u2019s fearless \u201cFrownland\u201d (2007), a study in loserdom that never shrinks from reality. (Bronstein is one of the producers here.) But Robert\u2019s fixation on Wallace, the cracked relic who never was, is just a conceit we have to roll with (even though it\u2019s the heart of the film). \u201cFunny Pages\u201d wants to be about comic-book love, and at times it is, but the movie is working so hard to be disreputable that it lets the love get steamrolled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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