![]() Well, I know it’s his job and he surely will make some more for you, but I want you to know I’m a sensitive actor and you might remember me from The Master where I played a character who who was spiritually lost. Someone put that spinach in that can, likely in a factory and here you want him to cook more pancakes for you. I’m looking at you, Bigfoot, as if I am witnessing a Nazi war crime, because I drank raw eggs this morning, just like Rocky Balboa in the first “Rocky”. You’re asking for more pancakes because you think they’re spinach and they make you strong like Popeye, but pancakes don’t grow on trees. Off stage, you may think I’m irreverent and too good for you, but here I am defending the the common minority, the line cook behind me as you, Bigfoot, request to be served additional pancakes, “molto panacako,” which means “many pancakes.” Do you want his formal servility? Sounds like it. I will now explain the play-by-play commentary that is occuring in this 1/24 second frame, from the narration of Doc himself. But if it is not so obvious to you, this scene is a veiled commentary for racism and/or supremism. There is little need for me to watch the entire scene, because this one picture captures it all. “He had more life in one fingernail than others had in their entire body.” If you remember Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams) from Rushmore, she said a similar thing about her late husband (shown only as a picture frame in the movie as the character of Owen Wilson). This movie has more things going on in one movie still than an entire B-grade movie put together. Inherent Vice appears to recreate a reality that many people have forgotten or don’t care about. But when the idea and storyline are good, the product becomes a breathing reality. Studios rarely seem to experiment with off-the-wall concepts because the financial risk is so high. Independent filmmaking became a place where filmmakers could retain their creative control but at the expense of lesser mass appeal. What eventually began as organic creative control turned into formulaic screenplay concepts that became less a work of art and more an exhibition of technique or process. He is keeping history alive by putting it on life support. If P.T Anderson were a photo journalist, he would win a Pulitzer. But even into the 70s and early 80s, there was a golden sunset era of exploration with major studio funding of directors such as Stanley Kubrick. Movies back then truly were more exciting, as there was an atmosphere of “frontier” mindset, which was established in literal terms by early giants like John Ford and his Westerns. I haven’t seen Inherent Vice in its entirety, but watching the trailer over 30 times, I knew that I was witnessing a revival of the unfettered funding given to some filmmakers in the late 60s and 70s. Movies that lack excitement today can be due to a number of reasons, but one of them has to be method acting, where the cardinal rule is believing in one’s role. Allen joked “movies”, siding with the idea that sports today offer more excitement in play-by-play. One of the questions he was asked was if he had to choose one, whether he would give up movies or sporting events today. ![]() “Bigfoot” Bjornsen (Josh Brolin – not pictured) in P.T Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice”.Ī few years back, Woody Allen accepted, as they say, a “rare” interview. ![]() Joaquin Phoenix as Larry “Doc” Sportello sitting next to Christian F.
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