Amy Schumer is a comedic genius and one of my personal heroes, somebody who I would absolutely chase down the street and frighten with my unadulterated fandom. She regularly slays the patriarchy on her Emmy-nominated Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer—which she writes, directs, and stars in—and during her gleefully explicit, incisive stand-up. (Seriously, if you haven’t, watch Mostly Sex Stuff, which was Comedy Central’s second-highest-rated special in 2012.) She’s smart, unbelievably funny, unafraid to be weird as fuck, and socially aware, and her penchant for laying into sexist stereotypes and subverting gender roles is striking a serious nerve for women (and men) who desperately love comedy but desperately hate Tosh.
There’s been a lot of buzz about Schumer’s upcoming movie, Trainwreck—which she wrote and stars in, because she’s Amy Schumer—but very few details available, outside of the fact that it’s loosely based on Schumer’s life, and marks her first starring role in a movie and Judd Apatow’s first stint as a director for a film he didn’t write. This dearth of details has been rough for us Schumeroos. (Can we try to make Schumeroos happen? Or no?) Today, though, the first trailer for Trainwreck dropped, and it’s the absolutely opposite of a trainwreck, which is to say it’s a train that runs very smoothly, has great free snacks, is completely void of creepy men who ask you what you’re reading, and gets its passengers to their destinations safely and hilariously.
What we can glean from the trailer: Amy Schumer plays Amy, a writer whose divorced dad turned her off marriage and monogamy when she was a kid. As an adult, she’s a “modern chick who does what she wants”; namely, have casual sex without apology, because this is 2015, dammit. She leads an uninhibited life, unencumbered by men in terrible sweaters, eating cereal on the toilet, and dancing late into the night in gold miniskirts. But when she meets Aaron (Bill Hader), a sports doctor who watches Downton Abbey with Lebron James (Lebron James) and takes her out for sake bombs, she starts questioning whether she should let down her guard for him. As any sane woman would. I’ll say no more (until two minutes and 35 seconds from now):
The trail of the tape
Title: Trainwreck
Director: Judd Apatow
Screenwriter: Amy Schumer
Cast: Amy Schumer, Brie Larson, Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader
Release date: July 17, 2015
The entire trailer in one line of dialogue: “Do you dress him like that so nobody else wants to have sex with him? That’s cool.”
The entire trailer in one screengrab:
Because this is Amy Schumer, I can’t see this ending in the traditional rom-com way—i.e., man saves woman from meaningless life by giving her the gift of his enduring love. I have to assume there’s some kind of clever twist here, a subversion of the genre. Maybe Amy, Aaron, and Lebron enter a three-way committed relationship? Maybe Amy becomes the president of the United States (but, like, in real life)? Is it wrong to wish for such things? Schumeroos?