Reading Inherent Vice

yeah tbh, not holding my breath for it -- seems like a lot of variables that could easily fall through. does anyone know if pynchon has been opposed in the past to film adaptations, or is it that no one in their right mind has thought to try? other than the phenomenal V TV miniseries of course.

Closest thing to my mind mind was the time he was supposed to "appear" on The John Larroquette Show (which fell through):

The show made several passing references to Pynchon, but the most specifically “Pynchonian” episode was Episode 11, airing in 1994 and titled “Newcomer.” Guest-starring David Crosby, the plot had Hemingway’s new girlfriend joining Alcoholics Anonymous and swearing off sex for six months. At one point, reference was made to a “Pynchon sighting,” describing the reclusive author as wearing a Roky Erickson T-shirt[...]

wonder waht happened to pta's scientology film...

Was excited until I saw RDJ's name.

does anyone know if pynchon has been opposed in the past to film adaptations, or is it that no one in their right mind has thought to try?

Well the rights have been sold, right?

other than the phenomenal V TV miniseries of course.

Does this actually exist?

think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thing

wonder waht happened to pta's scientology film...

http://www.movieline.com/2010/09/paul-thomas-andersons-scientology-film-gets-indefinitely-postponed.php

I was really looking forward to this too.

What do you mean you "wonder what happened", pretty sure the Hollywood scientologists with the power made it not happen.

think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thing
haha yeah, just kidding.

it's been so long since i read the word 'hardon' in print, it looks like some kind of CERN discovery

so wait . . . this is filming?

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77484/sean-penn-might-do-pynchon-for-paul-thomas-anderson

That is an excellent cast.

Groovy set pix

Has Joaquin Phoenix ever done comedy? Feel like he's all wrong for this.

After seeing The Master and going solely on Gravity's Rainbow (only Pynchon I've read besides Lot 49), I feel like Joaquin and PTA are a solid pair for a Pynchon adapt. Don't know much about IV, so if it's a different beast entirely n/m.

so excited 4 this

Cast looks solid for the exception of Reese Witherspoon

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/josh-brolin-says-inherent-vice-goes-in-a-direction-that-the-book-doesnt-necessarily-go-20140329

I wish they had gotten unknown actors

https://31.media.tumblr.com/5a9ca5590be6f887581ff143968be338/tumblr_n49kou5MXC1s7e2fco1_500.jpg

after his performance in Her, I am confident JP can bring it

I wonder if we'll ever see a film of Gravity's Rainbow

12-hour anime

I've got it all planned out actually. It's either a 12-hour anime, or a 2-hour episode of Xavier: Renegade Angel, with Xavier as Slothrop

I'm planning a 7-season tv-series called P, combining every Pynchon-novel into one long historical saga. It combines The Whole Sick Crew with the hippie-plot from Vineland, and has Stencil searching through history for the mysterious P, with a lot of help from the memoirs of the Frenesi, Bodine, Cherrycoke and Slothrop families. It's going to be awesome!

You forgot the Traverses!

Oh, crap. Frenesi is the first name, Traverse second. You're right!

Stuck halfway through M&D, don't know how I'm going to finish it (then AtD and Inherent Vice and I've batted the cycle)

I've done all the epics, but can't bring myself to read the shorter ones, or really any other novels by anyone else. It's terrible, and great.

AtD is probably, IMO, 90% as good as GR, and superior to M&D (a controversial opinion perhaps). All three are beyond other literature I may have tried to read.

M&D is so episodic and splintered that it's surely easy to read a chapter or two a day and not lose track? ATD is much more coherent, accumulative, beastly & deranged - good fucken luck with that one ;)

I have Inherent Vice at home and will certainly read it before watching the movie.

Thanks, imago. Maybe I'll just read 10 pages at a time, sounds less daunting! Glad to hear AtD is good

so this is fun

into the inner jacket reflecting pink fluorescent light at me

my favorite parts so far are bambi and jade.

"parts"

oh and saying Denis out loud in a Butthead voice

I read Inherent Vice.

go on

was not so into this one

"It's BONKERS — weird, weird, weird," one person who saw the film told me. "It made me laugh out loud several times, but not in the ways you might expect. The humor is not so much 'Boogie Nights,' as I think a lot of people are expecting. For reals, it tips into, like, Zucker Bros.-level gags and broad humor. But, obviously, mixed with his other sensibilities. Strange, beguiling tone."

Others who have seen it have mentioned that certain moments had a "Big Lebowski" vibe. "It's a sui generis mix of broad comedy, suspense, romance, melancholy and a touch of menace — unlike anything I can think of," said another.

I'm told Josh Brolin stands out in the supporting ranks and that Martin Short's work as a druggie dentist is "batshit insane." Another compared the film to Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye," starring Elliot Gould, "but amped up to 11."

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/expect-a-very-different-paul-thomas-anderson-experience-from-inherent-vice#hDOkvEVrX2pKebXd.99

I wasnt even into this book but that seems perfect

First still leaked. Brolin's flat top is pretty perfect. Looking forward to how his chocolate covered banana obsession plays out on screen. Wish the trailer would land already.

Can't wait to get freaked out and watch this

Here is that flat top.

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2014/08/10/Inherent-Vice.jpg

"According to Waterston and Brolin, the director allowed the magical realism dictated by Pynchon’s novel to flow from a place of possibility and collaboration—if not freewheeling experimentation—on set."

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/16/inherent-vice-josh-brolin-katherine-waterston/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-films-inherent-vice.html

I wonder if we'll ever see a film of Gravity's Rainbow

some people say this is close enough (i haven't read GR, and p much couldn't get anything out of the film)

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/impolex

if PTA is actually trying to do really quick, sharp visual comedy, it might be the hardest task he's set himself yet. looking forward to seeing how well it works.

Filming Thomas Pynchon is an exercise of futility

I feel positively-disposed towards this film adaptation

Looking forward to TP's cameo. Or at least the detective work to track it down.

i try to exercise my futility every day