So that was autobiographical? Is anything else in the movie? It's like, boy meets girl, boys fights [with] girl, maybe they get along, then they wind up together. So I think we wanted to add some dynamics to that and make it a little harder. Adding Ed Asner as Paul's dad [who's] fifty years older than Paul puts Paul in the unique position of maybe not having a real childhood and maybe wanting, in some way, create a childhood out of that.
And [John] Goodman and Zooey [Deschanel] have an odd relationship that makes them unique. I think with a story like this, it's better to make it harder to swallow than make it easy to swallow, we felt. I think as a director you want to meet the lead and both sort of see the trajectory of the character the same [way] -- or at least the emotional core of the character the same.
And we definitely did. From a film standpoint, I think we like the same movies, and we like the same directors, and we had a lot to talk about with that, so that was very nice… I thought Paul was such an interesting and unique actor already.
I loved him in this movie called "L. So that was fortunate. And after Paul, the next person was Zooey. She seemed to make intellectual sense with Paul. I don't think you can put any girl with Paul….
So then with that came me calling John Goodman incessantly for, like, 8 months until he finally said yes. What was with the homeless guy who keeps attacking Paul's character?
You could make a movie about them. That Brian's very sane mother is played by Jane Alexander is an example of how well the film is cast. The delicate relationship between Harriet and Brian is beautifully played by Deschanel and Dano, but the movie jars us out of it with bizarre sidetracks like a scene set in a massage parlor; it's intended as funny but is finally a tossup between odd and sad. The pendulum is swinging back toward the more classical forms of filmmaking.
It's not enough to add, "oh -- and this homeless guy keeps attacking him. And yet look at the things here that are really good: the conversation between Brian and Harriet in the doctor's waiting room. The way the parents take to the Chinese baby. The way that John Goodman modulates his performance to make Al Lolly a character and not a caricature.
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Rated R for language, some sexual content and violence. Paul Dano as Brian. Zooey Deschanel as Harriet. John Goodman as Al Lolly. Leave the little ones home. Paul Dano give evidence of maturity in this film, I do not think there is a scene where he smiled. He works in a warehouse and sells mattresses. One day he is visited by a big guy who buy a bed and sends his daughter Happy to take care of getting it.
After reaching home buyers to assemble the bed Brian is asked if he can take Al to the doctor. He accepts, and while they are in the waiting room, between him and Happy blossoms a romance, but it does not seem to be lasting because when she hears that Brian wants to adopt a child is scared and does not want to raise a kid with him. More, she enrolls on-line in a school kitchen in France.
She never leaves, actually finds that the site does not exist for many years and it remains to do courses in town. It is a movie about life, about a boy with his head on his shoulders which proves that he wants to make a big step in his life and about a girl who is opposite, silly, frivolous,crazy and does not seem like she wants their relationship to advance so much so that they grow a child together.
Yet a few questions remain. Which is why Brian is so brutally attacked by that man of the street and what happens to Brian and Happy. Remain together? The end came suddenly and if left to the discretion of the public to judge what happens next. This was a decent film, but it certainly had it's weird and frankly, badly written moments. It's about a 28 year old matrass salesman, Brian.
We know that he is 28, because his father had him when he was 52 and he's going to his father 80th birthday. He then meets this girl, a daughter of a customer. I really thought this was some book adaptation gone bad, because out of the blue, this girl wants to have sex with Brian. Also, his attacker pulls a Tyler Durden on him, which is never explained.
It seems people are upset this is marketed as a rom-com. I mean, get over it, it's not the filmmakers responsibility to deal with marketing. This is a good film, with great actors, some of which are under used, like Clarke Peters and Leven Rambin, although she's kinda overrated. But the story has loose ends, and not in a good, open-ended kind of way. The main protagonist of 'Gigantic' is twenty-eight year old Brian - a morose, monosyllabic mattress salesman.
Some jaded film-goers might feel they've watched Brian's charisma-free loner cousins overplaying their quirkiness in far too many Indie projects. In 'Gigantic' Brian possesses the stubborn ambition to adopt a Chinese baby - a plot contrivance designed to distract from his stupefying dullness. Despite being single, earning little money and suffering from violent hallucinations, an irresponsible adoption agency is helping him achieve his goal. The story begins when Al Lolly, an overweight businessman with chronic back problems, visits the warehouse where Brian is employed.
Big Al purchases a mattress and later sends his beautiful daughter to settle the bill. When Happy Lolly arrives, she asks Brian to help transport her father to a chiropractic appointment, and while they await its conclusion, Happy invites Brian to have sex with her. He doggedly obliges in an underground car park - but their romance doesn't amount to much. Happy immediately expresses her own quirkiness with feeble attempts to escape the relationship, while Brian continues to obsess about Chinese babies.
Like it or leave it - that's how love is in Indie-World. The film's script is a strange beast - the main story is the lovers' moth-eaten love affair, but the sub-plots contain some offbeat black humor, providing John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander, Clarke Peters and Zooey Deschanel with opportunities to create some original characters.
Somehow, mysteriously, their combined talents manage to keep 'Gigantic' afloat while Paul Dano impersonates a sack of potatoes in the central role. I saw this film for the first time,and two nights later I woke with the memory of the answer to the mystery behind the Homeless mans' attacks.
In the film Brian was said to be 15 years younger than his brothers, that He was a child that was born late in his parents marriage. After killing the homeless attacking man Brian turns to the two witnesses,as he's holding a bloody knife in his hand,and says,as they're backing away,that this has been going on a long time,or words to that effect.
In my dream it became clear that the homeless man was a bastard son,who was never recognized by Brians'father, who then watched Brian be raised in his place. His attacks are from hatred and jealousy. Brian ironically wants to bring new blood into the family by adopting an baby. Of course, none of this was in the film,but neither was any other explanation,so it's just as valid as a possible suggested solution.
This isn't a great film but it's pleasant and interesting enough to watch once every few years or so. Gigantic has a few funny moments and good performances by John Goodman, Ed Asner and Zooey Deschanel is attractive and has the requisite quirkiness, but I also found the main character Brian to be incredibly dull and the weak link in this film.
I'm also never impressed by the use of the "f-word" or for that matter the use of the "n-word" even when it's said by a black person when it feels that it's only being used for a cheap shock laugh. There are also too many questions left unanswered in this film.
What was the stalker all about? What does the title of the film mean? But, most of all, the main character, Brian, wanted to adopt a Chinese baby since he was eight? Perhaps, we may assume there was some male maternal instinct at work here. But why Chinese??? Gigantic is an eccentric film about two oddball families. Brian is bored with his job of selling mattresses and is obsessed with adopting a Chinese baby.
Despite having loving parents and supportive brothers he cannot relate to them and lives alone frugally in an apartment. Harriet or Happy who walks into Brian's showroom one day and falls asleep on a mattress has a dysfunctional family with a loud mouth hypochondriac father, an estranged disconnected mother and a self-centered older sister.
Brian and Harriet are drawn to each other sexually but cannot connect emotionally and the Chinese baby only makes things worse.
Alternately comical and melancholic this surreal story is about people managing their angst. The exact reasons for Brian's anxiety are not stated but it is possibly because he was brought accidentally into this world by his parents. There is a bizarre subplot in which a homeless man stalks Brian and keeps attacking him without any purpose. The discerning few can easily see this as a subtext for the demons of self-doubt tormenting Brian's mind. For others it could be an annoying red herring.
It is a film that will make you feel good if you have cracked the subplot. Gigantic is a different movie and this factored with some great direction and strong performances made the movie quite interesting. Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel made quite an unassuming yet refreshing pair.
But it's Ed Asner and John Goodman who actually work their magic and steal the show. The film however disappoints in various levels mostly in all the side stories - for one thing although I couldn't believe I was seeing Galfianakis again this year, I couldn't quite make out of what to do with the homeless man every time he appeared.
They could have done away with the character completely and the film would have been so much better. Similar such scenes exist throughout which are probably meant to convey some meaning probably but serve more of a distraction.
Nonetheless the movie was absorbing and the direction was sleek. Sometimes a movie comes along that makes the worst movie I've ever seen previously seem to have been not so bad. Gigantic is one of those movies. Lousy acting, lousy dialog, lousy plot, stupid throughout, with no rhyme, or reason. I've heard that if we were to put a hundred monkeys in a room full of typewriters, that they would eventually produce a screen play.
Too bad that the folks behind this piece of dung did not use more monkeys. While it is obvious that the current crowd in the film-making business are attempting to excel in garbage and foist if off on the general public as art, it is equally obvious that nobody with half a brain can find even one redeeming quality in this movie Except for those who produced it who have sold it to the rental for big bucks and will receive praises from other film-making idiots who think that praising garbage is the thing to do.
Movie had a number of funny lines, causing me to laugh out loud, which I rarely do, but did this movie contain a real story? Brian, single, 28, sells mattresses and hopes to adopt a child from China One of the delivery guys calls in sick, so Brian offers to help the other guy deliver the mattress to Al's place, where Happy offers him a chance to drive her dad to the back doctor for pay ; while waiting, they have the hot lovin'.
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