The Master (2012)

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/22/2012 6:25 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>> I most care about seeing how it evokes the early L.A. postwar time.
>
> PG:
> you might be disappointed. this film doesn't succeed in capturing the 
> feel of los angeles (my birthplace) the way MAGNOLIA and other 
> anderson films have done. and locations skip around a bit. it's not 
> set there exclusively.
>
>>   My coming of age personal contact with cults--Dianetics and 
>> Rosicrucianism--was limited (went to a few pool parties) and neither 
>> of these two was any match for what later was to come down the pike.  
>> It was just that a new future had arrived. I knew some pretty screwed 
>> up vets but nothing to approach Joaquin Phoenix's character.
>>
>> P
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> PG:
> my father talked a lot about shell shock victims after ww2, i think, 
> since this was as popular war as any, it was largely kept hidden.
>
> we don't know a lot about fred, (phoenix's character), other than his 
> mother ended up in a "looney bin". so it is at least suggested that 
> the damage was in motion before the war.

Thanks, Phillip.  I guess I need to let him make the movie the way HE 
wants it.

By dint of a rather strange job I briefly held at mid century, I got to 
meet a fair number of WWII vets whose post war adjustments ended up as 
insanity or close to it.  My duty at the VA hospital was to act as 
middle man on the electric shock therapy team. I got to talk to these 
guys before and after we worked them over. I don't know whether our 
approach helped or hurt.

P



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>>> sent from phillip's iPhone
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>>> On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> The Master has gleaned such good/bad reviews.  I think I like the 
>>>> bad ones.  I'll see it real soon.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, September 21, 2012, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     ... @ least a couple of what I'm taking as obvious Against the Day
>>>>     references, @ very least, not only to the "pigeon post" during the
>>>>     siege of Paris (AtD Ch. 1, p. 19) ...
>>>>
>>>>     http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_19
>>>>
>>>>     http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Garçons_de_%2771
>>>>     <http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gar%E7ons_de_%2771>
>>>>
>>>>     http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114462
>>>>
>>>>     ... + see as well, e.g., ...
>>>>
>>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post#Pigeon_post_of_Paris
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html
>>>>     <http://www.cix.co.uk/%7Emhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html>
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.amazon.com/Airlift-Balloon-Pigeon-Siege-Paris/dp/B0000CMMIP
>>>>
>>>>     http://parispigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/siege-of-paris-pigeon-post-and-balloon-mail/
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html
>>>>
>>>>     ... but the pointed use of the phrase "against the day" itself ("We
>>>>     fought against the day and won") ...
>>>>
>>>>     The Master (2012)
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.themasterfilm.com/
>>>>     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/
>>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)
>>>>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_%282012_film%29>
>>>>
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