IV movie

[Mark Kohut]

have loved your responses, your detail and your radio stuff...

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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