IV @ The Oscars

[Dave Monroe]

Before seeing the film, I would have hypothesized the equation thus:

IV (2014) = The Long Goodbye (1973) + The Big Lebowski (1998)

Now, esp. given the real estate angle, I'm not so sure its not

IV (2014) = Chinatown (1974) / Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:53 PM, David Casseres
<david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife, a true daughter of Los Angeles (went to L.A. High) who turned 20 in
> 1967, saw IV as a take on L.A. in the 50's, because of the noir, which
> cleaves to Philip Marlowe rather than the Rockford Files. I think she has a
> point. Or she did when she said it  – as someone who spent most of her 20's
> in the 70's, she has a very fluid reality and by now she may have an
> entirely different take.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> .... 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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