{"id":17070,"date":"2025-02-03T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:54:50","slug":"the-second-act-2024-quentin-dupieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17070","title":{"rendered":"The Second Act (2024, Quentin Dupieux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-movie where the actors keep &#8220;breaking character&#8221; between takes because they are playing actors who are appearing in the first movie directed by AI (represented by a button-down man in a white void on a laptop screen).  Louis Garrel is meeting L\u00e9a Seydoux for a date, she brings her dad Vincent Lindon, Louis brings his friend <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16455\">Yannick<\/a>, who he&#8217;s hoping L\u00e9a can date instead.  Manuel Guillot the waiter can&#8217;t handle the performance pressure and kills himself in his car (in character), then after the shoot he kills himself in his car.  As a final meta-touch, it closes by showing us the extremely long track setup for the opening tracking shot.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/filipe_furtado\/film\/the-second-act\/\">Filipe<\/a>: &#8220;It does not really have much to say about AI or industry, but as a vehicle for a terrific group of actors who are as usual all-in in the filmmaker\u2019s concept, this a very good time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/secact1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/secact2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-movie where the actors keep &#8220;breaking character&#8221; between takes because they are playing actors who are appearing in the first movie directed by AI (represented by a button-down man in a white void on a laptop screen). Louis Garrel is meeting L\u00e9a Seydoux for a date, she brings her dad Vincent Lindon, Louis brings his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,455,91,34,2111,265,1206],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-filmmaking","tag-france","tag-lea-seydoux","tag-meta","tag-quentin-dupieux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17176,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}