Anderson (was Gravity's Audio)

[Mark Thibodeau]

By the way, Dr Benjamin Simon, seen in this documentary treating the
man who couldn't walk and the man who couldn't speak, was very well
respected both as a doctor and a hypnotist. He later worked with Betty
and Barney Hill regarding their famous UFO encounter. The recording of
his session with Barney can be heard on my channel among other places.
So there's an extra level of World War II "WOO" there for us
parapolitical/paracultural obsessives to parse over.

Jerky

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the documentary. Try watching The Master after watching THIS
> and it opens up like a whole 'nother grimmoire of New World Black
> Magick.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiD6bnqpJDE
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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