IV movie

[Heikki R]

Thanks for this Kai. I have a hunch the movie may rehabilitate the book for
me too. Four weeks to wait.


Heikki

P.S. In the Finnish language, a vernacular expression for sideburns is
"thigh-brushes". (Quite fitting when if I think of IV the book at least.)

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> Much to my surprise I really liked it. And my wife, not easy to please in
> terms of movies, she did so too. Actually we had a swell time. It took me a
> couple of minutes to get used to Doc's carpet-sized side-burns, especially
> in combination with that bluejeans shirt, but that was just me. Soon I was
> all in and enjoyed the ride wholeheartedly. For PTA the movie definitely
> marks a step forward; with his heavy patriarchal dramas, first 'There Will
> Be Blood' (rather good) and then 'The Master' (not so good), he had moved
> himself into kinda blind alley. And for Pynchon, or perhaps rather for my
> understanding of Pynchon, the movie does something good too. IV isn't his
> greatest novel, to put it mildly, but by this movie adaptation it is in a
> way rehabilitated for me. At least my feeling towards the book has changed
> since yesterday profoundly: I now accept IV as a legitimate part of
> Pynchon's work and can see the interesting things in it. Is there more a
> movie adaptation can achieve in terms of adaptation? What I like especially
> about the film are the interactions between Doc and Bigfoot which belong
> the funniest scenes I've recently seen in movies. Joaquin Phoenix and Josh
> Brolin play together here with real esprit. Brolin is very funny, and
> Phoenix, with his wild starring stoner eyes, gives the schlemiel a touching
> dimension that I couldn't feel when I read the book. What I also love are
> the interior decorations which partly - Doc's green telephone! - remind me
> of my childhood. And then there's the light, this incredible light! I don't
> know enough about cinema to tell how Anderson did this, but was truly
> enchanted by it. We did bathe our eyes in this light ...
>
> Thank you PTA, thank you Pynchon, thank you PTA!
>
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