IV movie

[Dave Monroe]

This was pretty much my reaction (nine times ...), except that I
missed the ARPAnet subtext, am not so sure about the SPOILER ALERT
altered ending (I find those last few page of the novel genuinely
touching, + would have found them so as well in Sortilege's
streamlined voiceover), but  my biggest complain was actually
NON-SPOILER ALERT that the epigraph was @ the very end (after the
credits, after "The End," a la yr avg superhero movie these days).
Should have been @ the beginning, where it belongs.  Would also have
enjoyed a Mucho Maas cameo (among many, many other things, e.g., being
from Milwaukee, Doc watching the Bucks, but ...

(Speaking of cameos, watch for the guy who walks by the window, twice,
+ stops, twice, behind Coy + Doc i the rented house in Topanga
Canyon--TRP 2014 as TRP 1970?)

Here's me + a couple/three (actually, four, but ...) friends on the movie:

https://soundcloud.com/riverwestradio/13-00-00-cinema-fireside-23

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:35 AM, 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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