Movie: Inherent Vice

[Dave Monroe]

I actually recommended to a friend that she see the movie 1st, as it
streamlines the plot(s)/theme(s) well (enough).  So she of course read
the book 1st, + immediately started arguing w/ me four sentences in
(so, again, if anyone has definitive proof of the existence of a
Conutry Joe & The Fish  t-shirt [as eventually seen in the movie,
albeit more of a gig poster printed on a shirt, w/ Iron Butterfly et
al. ...]).  I ultimately noted that, well, everybody can make a
mistake (which Pynchon does in IV, calling Lew Alcindor Kareem Abdul
Jabbar a season too early), but made the fatal faux pas of sending
along a site enumerating the mathematical mistakes in Infinite Jest
(her Big Novel of choice, that + The Man without Qualities [q.v.]).
Took it as a personal attack (which apparently going after my favorite
author wasn't ... but I'm obviously used to bickering about Pynchon,
so ...).  Shoulda gone w/ Wm. S's shores o' Bohemia ...

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. The "makes sense" aspect does make it *less* Pynchonian. But that's OK.
>
>
> On Monday, May 25, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The movie is a neater, more streamlined version of the book. Made
>> total sense to me, ie there were no loose ends or cryptic signifiers
>> that left me scratching my head. Seriously don't get the reviewers who
>> said 'not getting it is the point!'
>>
>> Then again, all of this kind of makes it *less* Pynchonian, but still
>> kinda more enjoyable than the book itself imho.
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/inherent-vice-from-page-to-screen-the-6-biggest-changes-from-the-book-20141215
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/19/inherent_vice_book_vs_movie_how_pynchon_s_novel_paul_thomas_anderson_s_movie.html
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I just now saw IV movie on DVD.  I liked it a lot. Might the movie be
>> >> better
>> >> than the book?  Is there a source that judges how close the movie and
>> >> book
>> >> compare? Still, it felt a lot like Pynchon to me.
>> >>
>> >> David Morris
>> >>
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