IV @ The Oscars

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 23:25:49 CST 2015


.... for the record, I went to my Ist (preview) screening w/ this guy
(who actually attended w/ ME as a representative of the press, so
watch this space):

https://web.archive.org/web/20141019224910/http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_blowtorch.html

http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-7964-thomas-pynchonrss-lsinherent-vicers-a-must-read.html

... though I had to break it to him that both he AND Pynchon had made
inverse mistakes mistakes.  Where Eric gets the year wrong (not
mention in the novel, but @ the beginning of the movie, by the way)
...

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Real_Time_and_Narrative_Time_in_Inherent_Vice

... Pynchon gets Lew Alcindor's name @ the time wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar#Milwaukee_Bucks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar#Religion_and_name

Now to break the news to Pynchon ...

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... but NOT production (didn't this used to be art?) design?
>
> http://oscar.go.com/nominees
>
> Having seen IV today for my IVth + Vth time (I figured, I was there
> anyway,, so ... though I'm gonna have to move on to Foxcatcher +
> Aerican Sniper soon, maybe even Wild if I have the time, or need a
> nap), I'm still noticing marginalia (and we all know how significant
> that can be in a Pynchon novel) even Pynchon din't (necessarily) think
> of (or, at any rate, that I don't recall/can't find in the novel).
> But even the period detail for the non-Pynchon eye alone ...
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://oscar.go.com/nominees/writing-adapted-screenplay/inherent-vice
>>
>> http://oscar.go.com/nominees/costume-design/inherent-vice
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