IV movie

[Dave Monroe]

Kai pu it better.  Why is it that the Germans here all read/write/and
probably speak English better than we do?  I can read/write English,
but I tend to talk/write American, so ...

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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