The Master

[clown]

PTA loves his gummy bears

[bankhead]

when punchdrunklove came out pta and sandler came to our tisch screening. it was clear we were all there to see pta because despite billy madison love at that point it was like fuck adam sandler. but the dean of the school introduced them for their q&a and spent five minutes listing sandler's accolades/box office because he's an actual nyu grad. then she intros pta by quipping "we can kind of claim him because he attended for one week before dropping out" and that was it. pta was kind of our hero at tisch because during his first week he'd famously thought his 1st year screenwriting workshop was bullshit and turned in a scene from the (recently oscar-winning) mamet screenplay to Hoffa as his own. he got a C+ and dropped out the next day, got his tuition back and you know, became pta. sort of a stupid hero for us because none of us had the balls to do that now that we were "in".

they were bro-ing out the whole time, like that candy clip, it was really a great q&a. then they opened it up to student questions, and the first guy they called on, one of our more embarassing compatriots, gushes about how magnolia changed his life etc etc and expresses a desire to find out what the frogs truly meant. pta just kind of shrugs and is like "fuck i don't know man i have no fucking idea," and implied heavy cocaine usage. most of us cheered. pta said "fuck" more than anyone i've ever encountered outside of that american juggalo video.

[Baby Museum]

is jonny greenwood doing the soundtrack for this one?

[bankhead]

yeah that's his stuff in the clip

[Baby Museum]

excellent. glad to hear

[Phil]

Gangs of New York is an abject horror show, and his performance in that film is similarly outrageous, however it's believable and functions within the film.

This basically gets at why There Will Be Blood is the only DDL movie I'd have much interest in watching again. Everyone else he's worked with is totally on board with his hammy method thing, and Scorsese, who owes more to Kazan than anyone else, is the pinnacle of that (which is why when it was directed in the right direction in Age of Innocence he was so good). So Gangs is Scorsese flailing, trying his hardest to make a fin de siecle studio disaster which is fundamentally about his belief in this romantic idea of megaproduction and of course part of that is the idea of the mega-performance; it's not that DDL is any more or less believable than he usually is, it's that the belief in the hugeness and ridiculousness of what's around him is as hysterical as his own.

TWBB takes DDL and sticks him in the middle of a Kubrick movie that's all precision and because there's no effort or interest in placing him in a method-realist scenario you end up with the primary fact of his performance being that he's a cartoon, one that's as outsized and effective as the best Chuck Jones. Its line are all that clean. It's the only one of his performance that feels like it's finding anything like a new mode of expression rather than humping the corpse of something that was exhausted by the late 60s. His proportions to the rest of the movie - the extent to which everything is an extension of his internal conflict - are directly related to whatever political thought it has.

I haven't seen TWBB since it was in theaters, and it impressed me the way a movie like that is bound to impress a 20-year-old, so I might feel entirely different now.

[Juggly D, The Posting Maniac]

you remind me of my dad on his kindle. thanks for the posts

man the thing about george is he makes the best posts when called out

[manvstrees]

seriously i think totally's analysis is stuck on the mustache and some gangs of ny related stuff
shit's deep

[Totally]

Man all my little nobody fans are back from the dead itt!

[Feech La Manna]

I knew this thread was gonna be good

[bankhead]

the age of innocence is a masterpiece

[manvstrees]

Gangs of New York is an abject horror show, and his performance in that film is similarly outrageous, however it's believable and functions within the film.

This basically gets at why There Will Be Blood is the only DDL movie I'd have much interest in watching again. Everyone else he's worked with is totally on board with his hammy method thing, and Scorsese, who owes more to Kazan than anyone else, is the pinnacle of that (which is why when it was directed in the right direction in Age of Innocence he was so good). So Gangs is Scorsese flailing, trying his hardest to make a fin de sicle studio disaster which is fundamentally about his belief in this romantic idea of megaproduction and of course part of that is the idea of the mega-performance; it's not that DDL is any more or less believable than he usually is, it's that the belief in the hugeness and ridiculousness of what's around him is as hysterical as his own.

TWBB takes DDL and sticks him in the middle of a Kubrick movie that's all precision and because there's no effort or interest in placing him in a method-realist scenario you end up with the primary fact of his performance being that he's a cartoon, one that's as outsized and effective as the best Chuck Jones. Its line are all that clean. It's the only one of his performance that feels like it's finding anything like a new mode of expression rather than humping the corpse of something that was exhausted by the late 60s. His proportions to the rest of the movie - the extent to which everything is an extension of his internal conflict - are directly related to whatever political thought it has.

I haven't seen TWBB since it was in theaters, and it impressed me the way a movie like that is bound to impress a 20-year-old, so I might feel entirely different now.

god every phil post

[manvstrees]

Man all my little nobody fans are back from the dead itt!

he goes straight to this every time
magritte level boarding

[Phil]

The fact that you and Frank are, to the best of my knowledge, the only people on this board who have a problem with me is reassuring.

[Baby Museum]

i liked that phil post. it's what i was thinking but couldn't put into words other than, "he sticks out like a sore thumb, that's sorta the point *fart*"

[Baby Museum]

not sure if it is proper to quote a fart

[manvstrees]

The fact that you and Frank are, to the best of my knowledge, the only people on this board who have a problem with me is reassuring.

i mean those aren't two boarders who have things in common
i guess that it's only two is a good sign, sure

[chapin]

i might go buy some gummy bears now

[Gehrig Industries]

why yall so mad

[Broncobama]

hey guys did you know that i go to tisch

[bankhead]

it was a long time ago and not a point of pride

i just loved seeing pta and sandler friendship threading it out live

[bankhead]

or did you think i'm still at tisch after ten years

we also had your avatar in for a q&a and she told a guy to go fuck himself because his question was so douchey

[husbands]

if PTA stayed in school maybe he wouldn't have made magnolia

[Baby Museum]

husbands what does the caption say in your avatar

[bankhead]

if PTA stayed in school maybe he wouldn't have made magnolia

Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell is that you

[husbands]

husbands what does the caption say in your avatar

[Mesh]

His proportions to the rest of the movie - the extent to which everything is an extension of his internal conflict - are directly related to whatever political thought it has.

You'll have to say more on that, because right now I don't know what it means. TWBB is a movie about making an audience feel love, hate, and fascination with a terrifyingly focused man (not to mention a caricature that's ludicrous now and then). You get to/have to be H. W. Plainview for a while, everything looks mythic, old, and vaguely scary, and you have to sit and witness your driven father evolve into an unhinged monster. Its industrial and economic concerns are set dressing for the straightforward task it sets itself.

edit: I deleted the results of my own moronic misread. Apologies, Phil.

[ecto]

you remind me of my dad on his kindle. thanks for the posts

man the thing about george is he makes the best posts when called out

yeah this was ill

never change george

[seriesfinale]

Me, I'm just thankful I haven't heard an "I drink your milkshake" reference or worse, impersonation, in a few years.

[andrei]

well that singalong cmon

Man you gotta post the scene if you're going to reference it.
I'm still not sure if this is the lowest point of cinema or the absolute pinnacle.

it laid the groundwork for like gray's anatomy basically, but i guess i'm still kind of ok with it