IV movie

[Dave Monroe]

Slightly different, sort of aquamarine vs. a more green, uh, green,
but I took note of it all the same ...

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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