The Master, (and P)-- once more, bustin' outta the fifties.

[Mark Kohut]

At the time of The Master, Anderson spoke of his steady reading of Pynchon. And there are three possible allusions to TRP's work in The Master. 

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> On May 1, 2017, at 2:07 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Appreciate your continued enthusiasm for this movie, Mark. Like a lot of PTA movies, for some reason, I am dragged in somewhat reluctantly but leave kind of astonished. 
> 
> I went with some friends to see it at this place I liked outside Syracuse called the Manlius Art Cinema. 
> 
> I found the movie totally spellbinding, which is exactly what I ask out of a movie. The scene with the pacing in particular. I'm hard pressed to give too much evidence better than the fact of the IV movie at the moment but I think you're right that Pynchon's work seems genetically integral to PTA's. In a way that is maybe more overt than with other directors I can think of, at least any who are as interesting and gifted as he is, of whom there aren't that many I can think of... (and among those getting the financial resources and broad attention PTA is...he will be one very important way Pynchon's spirit survives and spreads. 
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>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> One major theme (outta Pynchon),  I think,  can be stated this way:
>> 
>> The Master is mostly about that post-war charisma--Hoffman as Master---that Pynchon 
>> warned about at the end of GR. 
>> 
>> A--and, all that "connected in history" together between Phoenix and Hoffman might be
>> Anderson's take on paranoia (outta GR).....
>> 
>> And all of Phoenix's self-destructiveness and cluelessness, his self-dammed erotic drive--- is--tentatively anyway?--overcome  in the last scene. ??                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
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