I want "they is...they is...they is..." on my gravestone. My all time favorite short story. If you liked this, read Joe Hill's Pop Art. It's really great too.
Wow. This is miserable. As Spoko said, narration is easily one of the worst ways to go about this story I can conceive of. Now I'm all disappointed 'n stuff...DX
Narration is such a poor approach to this story. They could have done it all with just film, if they'd tried. It would have been vastly more interesting, and compelling.
short film is great on so many levels ! aesthetically you could base whole texts on this film and where it was adapted from ! Also its brilliant to have good actors in a short film ! so many lose my attention due to poor acting !
Whats upsetting is how many people dont understand it due to their need for conformist action or cliche twists !
This is my all time favorite short story- there are words that evoke emotion to writers and often they make no sense- for me, my trigger word is peach. Anders remembers the absolute moment he fell in love with words when the cousin from Mississippi says "they is". Now, words have become a chore to him and yet at the last moment of his life, he is able to recall the exact moment of his creative awakening. This is a story they will still teach creative writing students hundreds of years from now.
I think it's the cadence of the word for the boy. Haven't you had a moment when you hear someone with an accent speak and it sounds so different, so beautiful? He found that sound beautiful. Ever see 'American Beauty'? The hero finds beauty in a piece of trash. Now some people might find this absurd, and there is plenty aesthetics can say about it. But the one thing no one can deny is that HE found it beautiful--incredibly so--and maybe that's all that really matters a moment before you die.
Well said, rader55555. 'Cadence' is the perfect word. "They is" is one of the only unique, original things Anders can still remember, and it's buried in his unconscious. One of those serendipitous signifiers of beauty that he doesn't find anymore in the stories he reads now. He pierced his own veil, as you so rightly get at, the moment before he dies.
To hear a phenomenal reading of this story by T.C. Boyle, listen to the New Yorker Fiction podcast, available on iTunes for free.
Because it's unique and he just likes the sound of it. His job as a critic (a teacher in the short film) is to analyze and criticize word choice, but he returns to this pure, unexplainable enjoyment of language that makes up that memory.
great to see this story as a short film. well done. I would have preferred a different delivery on the final words with more emphasis to their recital. but all in all a great film. thanks for posting
This is probably my all-time favorite short story. I didn't know about this short film, though. Thanks so much for uploading it! I plan to show this to my creative writing students today. :)
This was totally amazing. I wished there were more distinguished moviemakers out there like the ones who produced this masterpiece. GO and tell all your friends about it!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! More imagination & talent on show in those 15 minutes than in anything being churned out by Hollywood these days - the cinamatography alone is worth watching for. Tom Noonan is a very underrated actor - more please!!!
Thanks for posting
ZwolfZki 3 weeks ago
no one has pointed out yet that the cousin from Mississippi is the kid from modern family
Brenner14 4 weeks ago
You made it too dramatic. It should be like a quirky dark comedy until the very end.
Brewmaster757 1 month ago
Not how I imagined it
evannael 2 months ago
An amazingly good short, on a wonderful and difficult short story. Good work! Probably the best short story I ever read.
hymiehymie 3 months ago
Interesting story but what was that woman doing in the woods topless and what was she grinding on?
xephonprodigy47 4 months ago
@xephonprodigy47 She was grinding on his dick. Are you fucking daft?
WitchesAndMoors 4 months ago
@WitchesAndMoors Nah just the rez on my comp is screwed up and I couldnt see. But thanks for telling me
xephonprodigy47 4 months ago
I want "they is...they is...they is..." on my gravestone. My all time favorite short story. If you liked this, read Joe Hill's Pop Art. It's really great too.
BowedOak1 7 months ago
Wow. This is miserable. As Spoko said, narration is easily one of the worst ways to go about this story I can conceive of. Now I'm all disappointed 'n stuff...DX
BarbaZootSuits 7 months ago
Narration is such a poor approach to this story. They could have done it all with just film, if they'd tried. It would have been vastly more interesting, and compelling.
spokospokospoko 9 months ago
Noonan is an amazing actor!!!
zabezabe 10 months ago
Oh man, this adaptation is SO good. Noonan and Winters are spectacular!
miggerino 1 year ago
boobs on youtube!
coolbro1989 1 year ago 3
@coolbro1989 whats nice is I can pause at that part and rub a good one out!!!
jonclee48 1 year ago
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@coolbro1989 whats nice is I can pause at that part and rub a good one out!!!
jonclee48 1 year ago
@coolbro1989 whats nice is I can pause at that part and rub a good one out!!!
jonclee48 1 year ago
@coolbro1989 Stop talking about yourself
HAHA-ihatemyself :[
ServeTheBeaver 1 year ago
nigger stole bike
redarrowhead2 1 year ago
short film is great on so many levels ! aesthetically you could base whole texts on this film and where it was adapted from ! Also its brilliant to have good actors in a short film ! so many lose my attention due to poor acting !
Whats upsetting is how many people dont understand it due to their need for conformist action or cliche twists !
good job
opreeve10 1 year ago
i don't think it was a good idea to make this into a movie...
also, "the others will think he's being a juhk". lol
bruiseship 1 year ago
Best part at 1:00
Thats why blade liked this video!
TheExiledPro 1 year ago 3
only here cause blade sent me.. dont know bout you guys lol
CurtTCaMx 1 year ago
was that girl topless!? and OUMB sent me
MattKatsockDVR 1 year ago
They is..................
jamesaellis 1 year ago
uhh It was Good! Especially the introduction which gave a different dimension to Anders.
tipofmytongue1024 1 year ago
my professor read us this short story 2day and i jus had 2 come home and watch it. great story. msg is so powerful
macstress 1 year ago
well done
20george20 1 year ago
Thank you for posting!
miggerino 1 year ago
This is my all time favorite short story- there are words that evoke emotion to writers and often they make no sense- for me, my trigger word is peach. Anders remembers the absolute moment he fell in love with words when the cousin from Mississippi says "they is". Now, words have become a chore to him and yet at the last moment of his life, he is able to recall the exact moment of his creative awakening. This is a story they will still teach creative writing students hundreds of years from now.
metatheheagefox 2 years ago
I don't get why the phrase "they is" appeals to him so much?! Anyone lend a hand?!
SEBB3RS 2 years ago
I think it's the cadence of the word for the boy. Haven't you had a moment when you hear someone with an accent speak and it sounds so different, so beautiful? He found that sound beautiful. Ever see 'American Beauty'? The hero finds beauty in a piece of trash. Now some people might find this absurd, and there is plenty aesthetics can say about it. But the one thing no one can deny is that HE found it beautiful--incredibly so--and maybe that's all that really matters a moment before you die.
rader55555 2 years ago
Well said, rader55555. 'Cadence' is the perfect word. "They is" is one of the only unique, original things Anders can still remember, and it's buried in his unconscious. One of those serendipitous signifiers of beauty that he doesn't find anymore in the stories he reads now. He pierced his own veil, as you so rightly get at, the moment before he dies.
To hear a phenomenal reading of this story by T.C. Boyle, listen to the New Yorker Fiction podcast, available on iTunes for free.
dddaaaannnnn 2 years ago
Because it's unique and he just likes the sound of it. His job as a critic (a teacher in the short film) is to analyze and criticize word choice, but he returns to this pure, unexplainable enjoyment of language that makes up that memory.
angryseraph 1 year ago 7
Wish we did this sort of stuff in OUR english class...
SEBB3RS 2 years ago
Fav
Joehands0me 2 years ago
look how cool I am, watching videos for English & commenting about it YEAHH*~
eeiioouuatyourface 2 years ago
HAHA, gotta love short story english hw.
Sporkyness 2 years ago
ree gives us way hw way too fcken often.
kingdomhertz 2 years ago
haha MR FTW WOOT
tRiCkStErKiLLeRz 2 years ago
great, my mom just walked in right when that scene was happening...
diianeex3 2 years ago
...Hah. hah. hah. Tell your mom to sue the school for making you watch porn!
PedoFerret 2 years ago
English Homework: Watch porn on youtube. Then write about it. OHOHO IMMATURE MOMENT.
PedoFerret 2 years ago
+1 MR REE!
DeeK4y 2 years ago 5
MR REE STUDENTS WOO!
RHTrix 2 years ago
YEA!!
Seleucid9 2 years ago
I love this adaption - I think it's endearing, and profound.
esob902 2 years ago
i like this a lot. the short story is wittier. but this is seperate from that by being an intepretation rather than an imitation.
saidtheliontothelady 2 years ago
I dont think this film did the short story justice.
The short story deserves so much more.
flipchickkk 2 years ago 20
@flipchickkk
i agree.... they cut out all the good stuff in the story.
nanisajosephine 2 years ago
great to see this story as a short film. well done. I would have preferred a different delivery on the final words with more emphasis to their recital. but all in all a great film. thanks for posting
godfather927 2 years ago
This is probably my all-time favorite short story. I didn't know about this short film, though. Thanks so much for uploading it! I plan to show this to my creative writing students today. :)
angryseraph 2 years ago
incredible.
thereisnolight19 2 years ago
This was totally amazing. I wished there were more distinguished moviemakers out there like the ones who produced this masterpiece. GO and tell all your friends about it!
KoolKrax 2 years ago
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KoolKrax 2 years ago
they is, they is, they is.
paulosham 2 years ago
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! More imagination & talent on show in those 15 minutes than in anything being churned out by Hollywood these days - the cinamatography alone is worth watching for. Tom Noonan is a very underrated actor - more please!!!
bluegrasslass 2 years ago
thisis such an amzing peice of art.
loveupskirts 2 years ago