PTA on Why He Made IV

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Sorry, but your take on The Master did never convince me. In its second 
half the movie becomes so fucking boring, and the final scene, 
confronting protagonist and counter-protagonist for the last battle, is 
a cheap imitation of the one from There Will Be Blood. There it works 
and even saves the whole movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOru7imqvI

"I'm finished!"


On 10.01.2015 11:58, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Gonna offer this. No authentic director, trying to 'honor' the most
> filmable work of a writer whom he admires so much, who can admit to
> not finishing GR, is" way too far up himself now", I suggest. he may
> not 'get it right' but most say the movie is much more Pynchon than
> Anderson.
>
> I will say more forcefully: that Guardian person DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
> The Master. And that Sandler is an unsympathetic
> human being in PUNCH DRUNK LOVE is the fallacy of likable characters
> AND such a word as "totally' for unsympathetic shows much less nuance
> than Sandler does. imho. That movie has some good scenes and an
> interesting theme all enwrapped in the same old kind of story.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> On 09.01.2015 23:48, John Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> PTA: "It's like Gravity's Rainbow--I've never got through it."
>>>
>>> Yikes. Perhaps he isn't our most qualified screen interpreter of
>>> Pynchon's writing.
>>>
>> That's what went through my mind, too, when I read this. More and more I get
>> the impression that watching IV will be hard work and nothing I should be
>> looking forward to ...
>>
>> Commenting an article from the 'Guardian' (which Dave posted here a while
>> ago), a reader, whose view on PTA's work before IV comes very close to mine,
>> writes:
>>
>>> I loved Magnolia and Boogie Nights, and thought There Will Be Blood was
>>> incredibly powerful if unsatisfying. Punch Drunk Love I hated: Sandler is a
>>> totally unsympathetic human being and the story was trite. The Master had a
>>> great two acts, then hit its head against the same damn beat for the last 40
>>> minutes, because it didn't know where to go. But nothing yet directed by
>>> Anderson was as pretentious and self-indulgent as Inherent Vice, which I
>>> actually found insulting in its smug self-admiration. So yes, I was one of
>>> those people who walked out in the first 15 minutes. It's a shame, because
>>> he's a true original, but this director is way too far up himself right now.
>>> <
>> Say it ain't so!
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> "A phenomenally good interview. Bear with it. It's worth the full two
>>>> hours of your time."
>>>>
>>>> --George Toles
>>>>
>>>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866014/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/english_film_and_theatre/faculty/toles.html
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.vice.com/read/inherent-vice-was-the-thomas-pynchon-book-i-could-make-into-a-movie
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