Anderson (was Gravity's Audio)

[Mark Thibodeau]

I have just done some research and realize that the doc to which I am
referring was "Let There Be Light", a post-WWII doc filmed by none
other than John Huston. It was shot in 1946 and essentially banned by
the military until the Reagan era. God-damn.

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/soldiers-heart

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> To the point where I almost felt as though Anderson considered The
> Master to be his audition tape for Pynchon, to prove that he could
> navigate similar territory.
>
> I'm thinking also of the way he used research to flesh out the milieu
> - the part where the psychiatrist is quizzing Joaquin about his
> "sweetheart", which is a direct rip from a famous 40's era military
> training film about PTSD (then known as shell-shock) which has
> recently popped up in an Adam Curtis documentary (The Century of Self)
> which I ALSO found to be kind of Pynchon-y in its execution
> (wide-ranging singling up of so many different lines).
>
> Jerky
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have to say that I definitely DID get a "V." vibe from a lot of The
>> Master on a couple specific points. The early parts, especially.
>> Joaquin being a human yo-yo for one, all the Navy shenanigans
>> (including the drinking of the torpedo juice) for two. So it's not
>> like it's not there.
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did my couple- three-overt allusions in THE MASTER go thru to the list? I'm using unfamiliar devices away from home.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Nov 28, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I'd argue that there are fanboy-level references to Pynchon in
>>>> Anderson's work.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe but I've not seen much hard evidence.
>>>>
>>>>> IThe framing themes of the
>>>> work - coincidence versus chaos and the manifold abuses of children by
>>>> their elders and of the present by the past - also seemed both
>>>> sophisticated enough AND unfinished enough to hint at someone who gets
>>>> Pynchon but is also prey to some of the perceived shortcomings of the
>>>> author.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting but not very concrete.
>>>>
>>>>> But confirmation bias and all that... I didn't think the guy
>>>> was trying to make a Pynchonesque movie, just that he'd be a
>>>> sympathetic reader if he wasn't already.
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure you're right, and if pressed I'd guess he had read Pynchon before signing on to make IV.  But, I just don't think he's a good fit, and - frankly - I don't think he's good enough to make something very good out of a Pynchon book.
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