the master

[Robin Landseadel]

I had been excitedly anticipating it since I heard the announcement of  
its production in Tony Ortega's blog on Scientology. I'm gonna bet  
that the inspiration for the Nefastis machine is the E-Meter. In any  
case, Philip Seymore Hoffman's evocation of L. Ron Hubbard is scarily  
on. People long involved with Scientology who knew L.Ron spoke of the  
uncanny authenticity of Hoffman's performance. From what I've read,  
the deeper one is in the cult of Scientology, the more one recognizes  
the authenticity of the 'tone' and practice of Scientology in "The  
Master.".

By the way, keeping things 'on topic' here, Hubbard's primary  
spiritual influence was the O.T.O., working strange autoerotic spells  
with Jack Parsons and Robert Heinlein. Aleister Crowley thought the  
lot of them asses, Jack Parsons—a rocket scientist?— eventually blew  
himself up with rocket fuel.

Which brings us to Nicky Nookshaft.

On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:12 AM, rich wrote:

> I thought Phoenix wonderful in the movie. makes me hopeful for  
> Inherent Vice.
> rich

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> After Rich mentioned it here, I decided to watch it. While I agree  
> that the initial sailor scenes reminded me of Pynchon, especially  
> Freddie in the crow's nest, the rest of the movie made me think more  
> of Pygmalion than Pynchon. Good indictment of Hubbard though...
> Rich
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