Movie: Inherent Vice

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon May 25 18:52:29 CDT 2015


Mark!

R U Cirius loosing baby teeth on Golden Fang's meaning?
Rilly? Ciriusly?
Start a list, and connect the dots, just like Doc's whiteboard.  Then smoke
some chronic. It will all make sense, and then it won't. Then it might
again, or knot.

David Morris

On Monday, May 25, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, why and what meaning the Golden Fang?
>
> Wolfson, why, what?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 25, 2015, at 6:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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