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Compare ''Film/RobertFrostALoversQuarrelWithTheWorld'', a much more conventional Clarke documentary about the poet Creator/RobertFrost.
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* DrugsAreGood: Jason says that getting high helped him deal with the drudgery and indignities of life as a domestic servant.
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* CloseOnTitle: "''Portrait of Jason'' - Copyright 1967 - Shirley Clarke" at the bottom of the distributor's card at the very end is the film's only credit.
* DrugsAreGood: Jason says that getting high helped him deal with the drudgery and indignities of life as a domestic servant.
* DrugsAreGood: Jason says that getting high helped him deal with the drudgery and indignities of life as a domestic servant.
* InVinoVeritas: Jason is constantly sipping scotch (and also [[TheStoner rolls and smokes a joint]] in one scene), which obviously fuels his candor.
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* ThatManIsDead: The former Aaron Payne says that Jason Holliday is an identity he created after moving to San Francisco. He calls people who insist on addressing him as Aaron "evil."
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* TensionCuttingLaughter: Jason's constant laughing when he talks about the more uncomfortable parts of his life.
* ThatManIsDead: The former Aaron Payne says that Jason Holliday is an identity he created after moving to San Francisco. He calls people who insist on addressing him as Aaron "evil.""
* VisibleBoomMic: Happens briefly mid-film.
* ThatManIsDead: The former Aaron Payne says that Jason Holliday is an identity he created after moving to San Francisco. He calls people who insist on addressing him as Aaron "evil.
* VisibleBoomMic: Happens briefly mid-film.
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-> "It’s a funny feeling, having a picture made about you. I feel sort of grand sitting here carrying on. People are gonna be digging ya, or I’ll be criticized, I’ll be loved or hated — what difference does it make? I am doing what I want to do and it’s a nice feeling that somebody is taking a picture of it. This is a picture I can save forever. No matter how many times I goof, I’ll have something of my own. For once in my life I was together and this is the result of it. It is a nice feeling."
-->-- '''Jason Holliday'''
-->-- '''Jason Holliday'''
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* TheFaceless: Shirley Clark and Carl Lee can be heard firing questions at Jason and prompting him to tell stories, but they never appear onscreen.
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* TheEnd: Ends with Clarke, offscreen, saying "The end. The end. That's it, it's over. The end."
* TheFaceless: ShirleyClark Clarke and Carl Lee can be heard firing questions at Jason and prompting him to tell stories, but they never appear onscreen.
* TheFaceless: Shirley
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* CampGay: The sashaying, the finger snapping, the quoting of Broadway musicals--yep, Jason's pretty camp.
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* TheFaceless: Shirley Clark and Carl Lee can be heard firing questions at Jason and prompting him to tell stories, but they never appear onscreen.
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* AbusiveParents: Jason is [[DissonantSerenity smiling and cheerful]] as he recounts how his father beat him on a daily basis.
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* AllGaysLoveTheatre: Of course they do! Jason winds up performing a number from ''Theatre/FunnyGirl''.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: For the whole movie, as it's nothing more than a series of shots as Jason Holliday talks. The only scene transitions come when the camera goes momentarily out of focus.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: For the whole movie, as it's nothing more than a series of shots as Jason Holliday talks. The only scene transitions come when the camera goes momentarily out of focus.focus.
* ReallyGetsAround: "I've been balling from Maine to Mexico."
* ThatManIsDead: The former Aaron Payne says that Jason Holliday is an identity he created after moving to San Francisco. He calls people who insist on addressing him as Aaron "evil."
* ReallyGetsAround: "I've been balling from Maine to Mexico."
* ThatManIsDead: The former Aaron Payne says that Jason Holliday is an identity he created after moving to San Francisco. He calls people who insist on addressing him as Aaron "evil."
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''Portrait of Jason'' is a 1967 experimental documentary film directed by Shirley Clarke.
It is a feature length interview of Jason Holliday, aka Aaron Payne (1924-1998), a friend of Clarke's. Holliday, a gay black man, had an eventful, tumultuous life with experiences that ranged from domestic servant to male prostitute to stage performer. The whole movie takes place in the living room of Holliday's New York City apartment, and it was shot over 12 hours in one single evening and night. Holliday, the only person to appear onscreen, talks about his life. Clarke and her partner Carl Lee are heard offscreen, conducting the interview, giving Holliday prompts, and becoming more confrontational as the film heads towards a conclusion.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: If Jason is to be believed, one of the psychiatrists he visits has a rather unprofessional interest in the size of Jason's penis.
* DrugsAreGood: Jason says that getting high helped him deal with the drudgery and indignities of life as a domestic servant.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: For the whole movie, as it's nothing more than a series of shots as Jason Holliday talks. The only scene transitions come when the camera goes momentarily out of focus.
It is a feature length interview of Jason Holliday, aka Aaron Payne (1924-1998), a friend of Clarke's. Holliday, a gay black man, had an eventful, tumultuous life with experiences that ranged from domestic servant to male prostitute to stage performer. The whole movie takes place in the living room of Holliday's New York City apartment, and it was shot over 12 hours in one single evening and night. Holliday, the only person to appear onscreen, talks about his life. Clarke and her partner Carl Lee are heard offscreen, conducting the interview, giving Holliday prompts, and becoming more confrontational as the film heads towards a conclusion.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: If Jason is to be believed, one of the psychiatrists he visits has a rather unprofessional interest in the size of Jason's penis.
* DrugsAreGood: Jason says that getting high helped him deal with the drudgery and indignities of life as a domestic servant.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: For the whole movie, as it's nothing more than a series of shots as Jason Holliday talks. The only scene transitions come when the camera goes momentarily out of focus.
