IV movie

[Mark Wright]

Notice that Doc and Bigfoot have matching phones, same striking green color

On Friday, February 13, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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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