![]() ![]() His longest speech is an “ambition is such bullshit” rant about old folks’ careerism and consumerism. And Alec is content to work at a bank-not a master-of-the-universe iBank but an actual bank that might lend you money. Megan was pre-med, but she confesses to Alec that she really just wants to be a wife and mother. And the first time you stay up all night with someone, drinking and talking and maybe fooling around, you hear music in a totally different way.” The heavens opened, and he laughed and stood to carry his Narragansett beer inside.Īlec and Megan look very 2014, but, Nichols said, “personal aesthetic is now far less a signifier of subcultural allegiance than folks might expect-Megan’s tattoos and nose ring in no way define her.” He went on, “Megan and Alec remind me of the wonderfully unremarkable people who are your actual, real-life friends.” They look and act young, but they’re on the fast track to middle age. He said that while the film’s soundtrack, which includes songs from Freelance Whales and Wild Nothing, harks back to the synth-pop of his youth, it’s also apt for a couple nearly half his age: “I don’t consider myself young in any way, but I do feel part of a generation that’s somewhat arrested. Nichols is forty, and he and his wife, the CNN sports reporter Rachel Nichols, have twins, yet he retains a goatee and a graying pompadour. Over dinner outside at Lulu & Po, in Fort Greene, in Brooklyn, Max Nichols said, “To me, what’s current about the film is that, instead of having the scene where a buddy says, ‘Forget about her, go and have a palate cleanser,’ and points out a cute girl at the bar, now electronic dating slash hooking up has made the aftermath of being jilted, as Megan just was, easy and private.” As black clouds massed overhead, he continued, “Megan and Alec aren’t Tinder junkies-they’re awkward about the protocols.” (Megan instantly nixes the guys who respond to her tentative I.M.s with “Sup?” and “ HEY SEXXXY GIRL.”) “But maybe technology allows young people to be more honest with themselves about who they really find attractive.” He rubbed his chin and added, “And maybe I should have put more of that in the movie.” In “Two Night Stand,” which opens later this month, Megan and Alec, played by Analeigh Tipton and Miles Teller, exchange flirtatious messages online, hook up in real life, quarrel the morning after, discover they’re snowed in, smoke some weed, talk languorously, and turn an assignation into something more. Nearly half a century later, Nichols’s son, Max, has directed his own comedy about aimless grads. “Elaine,” he says, “you’re going to have to stop asking me that.” Oh, and he also has sex with Elaine’s mom. ![]() ![]() “Where are you going?” his dream girl, with whom he’s been on one date, asks. In Mike Nichols’s classic 1967 film, “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, the fretful college grad played by Dustin Hoffman, rejects his parents’ life of conformity and drives around to Simon and Garfunkel songs. ![]()
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