Tom Tykwer, best known for directing the good but overrated Run Lola Run and the upcoming The International, plans to direct the film adaptation of What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. Yay! I’ve actually read this one! I love it when they adapt books that don’t have pictures in them!
The book details the life of Sudanese lost boy Valentino Achak Deng, who gave his story to Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, writer of the Where the Wild Things Are adaptation). It’s a great book that should make for a pretty intense movie, considering damn near everyone the guy knows gets brutally murdered, and his shitty luck doesn’t stop when he leaves the Sudan. It’s the kind of thing you read after a crappy day at work to remind yourself that your problems ain’t shit. It should really be called Suck it up, Pussy: The Autobiography of Someone Way Tougher Than You.
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damn near everyone the guy knows gets brutally murdered, and his shitty luck doesn’t stop when he leaves the Sudan
Black Forrest Gump is not as fun as retard Forrest Gump.
The only thing that stood out to me about Run Lola Run was that it didn’t have a lot of scat in it for a German film.
I hope Dave Eggers’ middle initial is a ‘N’.
I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet, and then I stole his wheelchair ‘cuz it’s not like he can chase me.
Banner Pic:
The code phrase for buying crack off that guy is “to shop at the gap”
Not to be confused with You Call That Defense: The Autobiography of Luol Deng.
Even the Sudanese Lost Boys won’t return Corey Haim’s phone calls.
What the fuck does Wayne Brady have to do with anything?
This story is just like my life, only instead of being brutally murdered, everyone around me got popped. Also, I never left Sudan.
The Sudanese Lost Boys don’t have Greasy Sax Man, they have HIV Positive Trumpet Dude.
I think the title is a direct quote from the editor who tried to figure out how Dave Eggers passed off another guy’s autobiography as a novel.
This would be a great role for Diddy! Or rather, I wish Diddy would get lost in the Sudan.
If he’s anything like me, and was laughing about everyone dying while he left Sudan, then they should title this movie ‘Run, LOL, Run’.
Tom: What are all these sticks for?
Valentino: Darfur poking hyenas in da bush.
Tom: Dude… that’s fucked up.
New slogan of the India’s Tourism Office: At Least We’re Not the Sudan.
I understand Fox Searchlight is planning on compensating this boy and his family with an open bag of Skittles and three coupons to Little Caesars.
*chodin puts left blinker “on” and waits to turn into FD parking lot…waits…continues to wait for traffic…waits….still waiting…finally pulls into parking lot, goes to park in spot only to discover Pauly’s sex machine already taking up the space*
Fuck…machine!
Suck it up, Pussy. That’s what I tell my cat when I accidentally jizz on the carpet.
“everyone the guy knows gets brutally murdered”
Or Achak Deng enjoys huge meal. Hey, you have to keep up your strength to run through the bush for weeks on end.
CB: Wait, so Marino cornered you in the bathroom and copped a feel? That’s fucked up. What are you gonna do?
FCTPCD*: Sue Dan.
*Fictional Chick To Progress Comic Dialogue
The only thing better than living in Sudan is the 600% increase in likelihood of surviving to age 16 if you don’t.
My aunt drives a Sudan. Ha, what a fucking retard.
To give himself some street cred, Eggers told the Sudanese dude he had written “Where The Wild Things At.” Sudanese dude was like, “street”?
The room that the two of these guys are in blows my fucking mind
Who hangs up half a painting?
Sudancing With the Stars is a huge success. When you get eliminated, you really get eliminated.
I never understood my Darth Vader didn’t just kill Valentino Achak Deng?
Willy Wonka.
Vince is right – this book is inspirational. I once deliberately ran this old dude over with my car, got out and forced him to read a single chapter (seriously – I had to hold his eyelids open and turn the pages). I’m pretty sure it made him feel a lot better about his own situation, at least for his remaining few minutes.
Wait? Sudan is a country? i thought it was a Mickey Rooney plot device?
Lost Boy “and they killed my cousin”
Mickey Rooney “Sudan what happen?”
LB “they killed my sister”
MR “Sudan what happen?”
Sudanese dude was impressed with Eggers’s work. “Ooh, you knew TWO people who died? That sure is ‘Heartbreaking.’” [makes 'jerking off' motion][which, in the Sudan, is 'sucking your own dick' motion]
I did a book once. The doctor said that amongst all the paper cuts, I had also contracted three of my favorite consonants.
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JOY! I typed that into Google and it still works.
A rare condition causes both of my patellas to be fragile. I have trouble finding work because they give me so much trouble.
My question is: Should I Sudanese?
compton is hard but the sudan is just scary