Plus we’ve seen the bar he hangs out, it’s a small bar that is about as hip as an Applebees. He wants everyone think he’s frat Pat - crushing beers and watching sports with all the cool college kids yet he’s 42 and married. He’s had a couple of these lame “OMG and older song came on the jukebox and the all the young kids here were like WHAAAAAAT” like it’s unique yet older songs have always played at bars. It’s like being shocked younger people would sing along to Sweet Caroline or Don’t Stop Believin’, the Queen one especially has been played to death, it already came back in the 90s because of Wayne’s World yet piggy thinks it’s some amazing phenomenon yet he’s just a fat rube getting drunk alone at a rube bar in fly over country.
Oh my God realizing how right you are as I was reading that sent an embarrassment chill up and down my spine.
He really thinks he is some ex fighter sitting in a bar with a baseball cap that’s falling apart, that he wears out of loyalty, in some rough part of Boston in a joint that has neon shamrocks and metallic beer ads from the 1950s.
When he pictures himself sitting there he’s conscious of camera angles and how it would look on the big screen, which is one of the largest problems with his writing.
Someone would come up to him and ask him for help, other people know to stay away from him, and if anything goes down in that bar, he’s the one that puts a stop to it.
But, because he always likes to be both sides of everything, he’s also the sensitive mysterious writer that women wonder about.
Because he can never just pick something, he has to be everything to all people all the time in all ways. He’s brutally tough, but he’s also intelligent, while being just a regular guy, man, but ALSO looks good in suits that he DOESN’T buy off the rack, child.
He is so tough, and he’s prone to violence, but he’s also very restrained and practices the self discipline that the Nazis just don’t have. He wants you to be a rebel like him but you also better comply because it’s the right thing to do so put on that mask, sweetie.
He wants to be every cool character he’s ever seen in any movie so of course he has all the attributes of James Bond but also a Mark Wahlberg character that doesn’t take no shit from nobody and fights crime as he drives a truck across the country.