The Master (2012)

[David Morris]

Saw it tonight also. And skipped Plist commenntary yet.
As a former cultee, I liked the mind fuck.
Also I likeded that fucking loomed large altogether ( does it never? ).

On Sunday, September 23, 2012, wrote:

> The Against the Day reference provoked a reaction (hey, he's plugging
> Pynchon) but not any deeper ruminations.
>
> LK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com <javascript:;>>
> >Sent: Sep 23, 2012 4:04 PM
> >To: "kelber at mindspring.com <javascript:;>" <kelber at mindspring.com<javascript:;>
> >
> >Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>" <pynchon-l at waste.org<javascript:;>
> >
> >Subject: Re: The Master (2012)
> >
> >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?
> >
> >
> >
> >Sent from my iPad
> >
> >On Sep 23, 2012, at 3:45 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <javascript:;> 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.
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> >>> Sent: Sep 23, 2012 11:24 AM
> >>> To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net <javascript:;>>
> >>> Cc: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net <javascript:;>>,
> pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>
> >>> Subject: Re: The Master (2012)
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net<javascript:;>>
> 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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