They're Shooting IV

[John Bailey]

Re: that "real and deeply personal themes", what I kept thinking about
during casting announcements was how many seem to have "colourful"
histories with substances or moments when the media delighted in
public burnouts or blow-ups. Robert Downey Jnr was obvious there, but
Phoenix as well, Penn I think, surely Del Toro and Wilson have
inhaled, even Witherspoon had her DUI meltdown recently. So that extra
layer of extratextual meaning there, in which Hollywood eats its
own...

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Al Haidar <attarhaidar at gmail.com> wrote:
> After Punch-Drunk Love, I think PTA deserves the benefit of the doubt when
> it comes to casting.  I'm more interested to see how the adaptation of IV
> will fit into Anderson's filmography overall. He swore in interviews that he
> didn't see The Master as a father-son story, and yet ... there it was,
> another PTA film thick with estrangement between fathers and sons. It always
> thrills me to see a new film from someone whose work is clearly dealing with
> real and deeply personal themes, not merely dictated by the box office or
> cinematic style du jour. How that will play out with a collaborator like
> Pynchon (by way of his writing, anyways) is exciting enough to me that I'm
> fighting the urge to be pre-disappointed with (some of) the casting.
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:20 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Owen Wilson and Sean Penn?  Two movie killers on the same screen.  How'd
>> the miss Nicholas Cage?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
>> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 11:23 am
>> Subject: They're Shooting IV
>>
>> Shooting on the Thomas Pynchon adaptation recently began in Los Angeles,
>> with a sprawling lineup including Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Owen
>> Wilson, Sean Penn, and many more. The first pics from the set offer a look
>> at Phoenix, who as ...
>>
>> http://www.slashfilm.com/first-look-joaquin-phoenix-in-inherent-vice-maya-rudolph-joins-cast/
>>
>> Yours truly,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>
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