7.3/10Had a few hearty laughs
>theyPTA is non-binary now? Good for xer.
>>217135222you ain't ever read it
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I read the novel before I watched the film and I don't understand how anyone not familiar with the book could follow the plot. It's a very complicated convoluted story.
>>217136097Because it simplifies it significantly by focusing mostly or at least centering the movie on the love story. It sheds quite a lot compared to the book
>when he looks at the picture of the crack baby and starts screaming
It's not a great adaptation. I've seen this and One Battle and I come to the conclusion that Anderson just doesn't get Pynchon. He goes out of his way to not include any of the more whimsical or fantastical elements like the musical numbers, the Lemuria stuff, the entire fucking subplot in Vegas and Doc catching interdimensional television in a motel on the way back to LA. Nor the actual paranoia Pynchon's famous for, the actual parapolitical insight, that stuff about the racist fraternity in One Battle was just so damn on the nose and half baked. I haven't seen his entire filmography but I dunno, everything about the guy just seems like a massive buzzkill with little imagination or sense of wonder. Only movie of his I Iiked so far was Boogie Nights.Pynchon has this great range of human emotion where he can flip from really dark to really cartoony to very emotional on a moments notice but both movies Anderson made inspired by his books just operate on a level of slightly quirky and overly literal where almost nothing about them is genuinely evocative or really invite you to delve into their parapolitical subtext. Just last year, Eddington was a better Pynchon inspired movie. Under the Silver Lake was a better Pynchon inspired movie. Hell, Chair Company was a better Pynchon inspired show. The best Pynchon inspired movie's probably still Southland Tales, honestly.
>>217136976>He goes out of his way to not include any of the more whimsical or fantastical elements like the musical numbers, the Lemuria stuff, the entire fucking subplot in Vegas and Doc catching interdimensional television in a motel on the way back to LA.Those types of things work in book form but become incomprehensible when you try to translate them into a movie. It’s like how Avengers Endgame and Infinity War bear almost no resemblance to the comic source material because it would make no sense as a movie.
>>217137022I would have let that fly in a world where Everything, Everywhere all at Once wasn't a massive commercial and critical success but no, you can absolutely have some of those fanciful stylistic setpieces and not lose the audience and I'm pretty convinced the reason Anderson avoids them is because he's personally not interested in them, not because you categorically couldn't make them work in a movie. No one ever complained that the musical number in Big Lebowski took them out of the movie. Matter of fact I'm pretty sure plenty of people will tell you it's one of their favourite parts.You could definitely have adapted Inherent Vice without just turning it into a half assed tribute to Long Goodbye. The reason comic book movies pull their punches is because they've got near a century worth of backstory collectively written by hundreds of people that even something like the MCU with three movies and five streaming series a year couldn't catch up with, much less expect the general audiences to keep up with, but the type if people who will watch a Pynchon adaptation in the first place will be able to roll with a more stylized approach just fine.
>>217136976Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love are whimsical and those are my favourite PTA films. He tried to recapture PDL in Licorice Pizza but failed. I agree that both of his Pynchon adaptations suck. There Will be Blood is an acting powerhouse but it's such a 2+2=4 basic movie yet it tries to have such as bombastic scope it really feels like he was thinking he is doing something that was more complex than it is. The Master is...fine. Some people seem to love it, but he really lingers for too long on some things in there, the second half of the film is often a drag. Phantom Thread I like the most of his "serious" films, the relationship he portrayed in it is quite fascinating.
