The movie

[Ian Livingston]

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think this is Henry, yes?


On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:24 AM, <mutualcode at aol.com> wrote:

> On viewing for the second time, it seemed as if the
> film was one long trailer for the text. The experience
> made me realize, again, just how dense Pynchon's
> writing is- even the comparatively lite stuff. If I had
> not read the book first I'd be looking for a copy now
> to fill in all the blanks.
>
> The film did clarify some of my impressions of the book.
> Shasta now seems like a nostalgic figure for "The Sixties,"
> evanescent and enticing, just beyond domestication
> but not quite transcendent, sweetly surviving and inverting
> co-optation. The FBI freed her from, as much as reclaimed
> Mickey for, the Forces of Greed. Her mom would probably
> not approve of Doc, however.
>
> But Waterston looked great without make-up!
>
> Doc successfully reincarnated Coy, but re-incarcerated
> might be another way of looking at it- Suburban Purgatory.
>
> Coy's dinner scene at Topanga Canyon- Surely
> a nod to Altman.
>
> And yes, the line following all the credits should normally
> be at the beginning. But maybe all that preceded it are
> what we need to look under, to finally get to the bottom
> of things, in this case, the text.
>
>
>
> > On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:16 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 3rd viewing yesterday.  May (or may not) have confirmed Pynchon cameo.
> > Also, stay 'til after the credits, after "The End."  THAT should have
> > been at the beginning.
> >
> > I'll go @ least a couple/three times more, w/ various friends,
> >
> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm ready to see it again!
> >>
> >>
> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >>
> >>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Third thoughts...perhaps it missed the emphasis on Manson, Altamont
> and the
> >>> end of the sixties in more ways than one....
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> Brolin's scene with Phoenix where they go jaw-to-jaw is a
> >>>> peak scene, imho, acting is pretty terrid, with Brolin leading.
> >>>> Phoenix harder to do movie-length so, nods unto Jeff Bridges a couple
> >>>> three times.
> >>>> Reese and Mull pros.
> >>>> I liked the music.
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> I liked it. Believeable well-crafted translation of the book. I liked
> >>>>> the close-ups, lots of them, they were in our face in a watch closely
> >>>>> kind of way --and the shots of bodies with no heads...I thought the
> >>>>> visual puns kept the Sent from my iPad
> >>>>> it enabled us to get key plot points and more of P's words...the
> >>>>> inherent vice explanation. for example...less moral ambiguity when
> Doc
> >>>>> kills Puck and Adrian Prussian...i did miss the cars up the mountain
> >>>>> road ending since that struck me so, since that has changed
> >>>>> everywhere.
> >>>>> it is still, as is Inherent Vice, more thematically minor than say,
> >>>>> Anderson's last two.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In a recent novel, Coetzee has the character discussing later Leo
> >>>>> Tolstoy, when the considered opinion is his work got weaker as he
> lost
> >>>>> the breadth of real life ambiguity in exhange for stronger polemical
> >>>>> skills and the character says that to Tolstoy it must have seemed
> that
> >>>>> he was being clearer and simpler and his beliefs more evident.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> TRP ain't more polemical, imho, but IV is a simpler clearer
> embodiment
> >>>>> of a lot of P's vision and the movie gets that OK.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The actress who
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