The Master (2012)

[Markekohut]

I fully, but respectfully, disagree...I am writing something...

anderson is a clumsy, but real, artist, self-learned (as it were) but more importantly
Freshly feeling some universal themes.

review it I. Your mind under P's " charisma, that terrible disease" ignore Scientology
Per se ( as melville's Pequot crew exists beyond The Pequod)

What did you THINK when you heard the "against the day" phrase...not used by the MLK yet? 
Or the siege of Paris stuff?



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On Sep 23, 2012, at 3:45 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Saw this yesterday.  Fantastic acting and cinematography, but the script was weak on story and lacking in theme.  The film didn't provoke a single thought, other than (as Dave asks) what provoked the director to make the movie?  Anderson's a great director and a lesser screenwriter.  Which makes me hope that he'll seek help with the Inherent Vice screenplay.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sep 23, 2012 11:24 AM
>> To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
>> Cc: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: The Master (2012)
>> 
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> ... there's not a lot of context, or even rationale, throughout.  I'll
>> eventually see it again, if only to catch what I might have missed
>> (restroom, distractions, anxiety, brief blackout [which is why I've
>> been unemployed for 2 1/2 years now, by the way]), but I do have the
>> screenplay, + it's not necessarily any help, so ... the ultimate
>> question (or, @ ay rate, the most interesting one, so far as I'm
>> concerned) is, what provoked any of this in the 1st place?  + to what
>> effect (on the audience, on cinema, on ...)?  I know someone not
>> entirely dissimilar to the Joaquin Phoenix character, maybe even
>> someone like the PSH one, all I could think is, this is how people
>> fall into these things, this is how they act when they do, + I can't
>> help but think that, insofar as anything is in the movie (not so sure,
>> it's not all to difficult to imply significance, @least, as We all
>> Know) is that (SPOILER ALERT?) "mortal enemies" line towards the end
>> might provide a key of some sort ...
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