Inherent Vice (2014)

[Monte Davis]

DM > The end.. is a very different creature... Recall the ending of either
adaptation of Ulysses, or John Huston's
excellent one of Joyce's "The Dead" (or of various Great Gatsbys
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[G
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sbies?])
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Oh, what choice touchstones for what the "voice" on the page can do vs.
what real light and real sound can do.

Nabokov's Pnin leaving Waindell/Cornell:
​"​
Then the little sedan boldly swung past the front truck and, free at last,
spurted up the shining road, which one could make out narrowing to a thread
of gold in the soft mist where hill after hill made beauty of distance, and
where there was simply no saying what miracle might happen.
​"​

On the face of it, a screenwriter and director couldn't ask for a more
straightforwardly cinematic final shot. Just think of all the movies that
have ended with a character driving off towards a new life. But how many of
them really catch that pale blue sedan?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I thought the voiceover was a good way to (1) preserve @ least some of
> Pynchon's prose + (b) fill in backstory/help account for so many
> characters/keep it moving/whatever (esp. given the running
> time/character + episode excisions).  Where it needed it most,
> unfortunately, was SPOILER ALERT @ the end, which I find genuinely
> touching in Pynchon's novel, + which SPOILER ALERT is a very different
> (albeit in Hollywood terms understandably so) creature in Anderson's
> film.
>
> Recall the ending of either adaptation of Ulysses, or John;s Houston;s
> excellent one of Joyce's "The Dead" (or of various Great Gatsbys
> [Gtasbies?])
>
> I would have @ least appreciated a SPOILER ALERT pull-away to outbound
> traffic on the LA Freeway (+ somehow, an allusion to Pynchon's
> allusions to the Internet, but ....) ....
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:51 AM,  <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not terrible, but not particularly substantial either (sorta like the
> book in that sense). All the doc/Shasta interactions seemed wrong, and I
> wish PTA had resisted the book-movie adaptation trope of having a character
> narrate over the film. Well, it's a silly flick and enjoyable enough in its
> own right, and it looks pretty nice in 35mm if you can find a theater
> that's screening it that way.
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:10 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Enjoyed it.  Liked it fine.  My only real misgivings (so far, though
> >> I'm seeing it again Friday, + again ...) are @ the very beginning +
> >> the very end.  Completists should stay through the credits (see
> >> misgivings).  My party (three out of four of whom have read the book;
> >> one reviewed it way back when, even) largely agreed. Let me know.
> >>
> >> http://inherentvicemovie.com
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