[i]Makes me want to re-read Vineland</>
This is exactly what I am doing. I liked VL just fine the first time around but now it seems even better. I've never understood why it's not highly regarded. Is it just because it isn't GV2?
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 21 September 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean GR2 of course.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 21 September 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/paul_thomas_anderson_looks_to_adapt_thomas_pychons_inherent_vice_with_rober/
― Number None, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
that could be cool! i am actually reading this right now -- lots of funny stuff, though the plot itself seems to be getting in the way. love all the south bay content -- the book basically takes place right where I grew up!
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this could work really well.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Blimey. Hope this actually sees the light of day.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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[...]
― leTeReL (Leee), Friday, 3 December 2010 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder waht happened to pta's scientology film...
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Was excited until I saw RDJ's name.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 December 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thing
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Friday, 3 December 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.movieline.com/2010/09/paul-thomas-andersons-scientology-film-gets-indefinitely-postponed.php
I was really looking forward to this too.
― Number None, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
What do you mean you "wonder what happened", pretty sure the Hollywood scientologists with the power made it not happen.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
think it's a joek - failed sci-fi thinghaha yeah, just kidding.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
it's been so long since i read the word 'hardon' in print, it looks like some kind of CERN discovery
― j., Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
so wait . . . this is filming?
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77484/sean-penn-might-do-pynchon-for-paul-thomas-anderson
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 May 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
That is an excellent cast.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
Groovy set pix
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Has Joaquin Phoenix ever done comedy? Feel like he's all wrong for this.
― Dan I., Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
so excited 4 this
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
Cast looks solid for the exception of Reese Witherspoon
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 2 August 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/josh-brolin-says-inherent-vice-goes-in-a-direction-that-the-book-doesnt-necessarily-go-20140329
― j., Sunday, 30 March 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
I wish they had gotten unknown actors
― calstars, Sunday, 30 March 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/5a9ca5590be6f887581ff143968be338/tumblr_n49kou5MXC1s7e2fco1_500.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, 20 April 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
after his performance in Her, I am confident JP can bring it
― calstars, Sunday, 20 April 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if we'll ever see a film of Gravity's Rainbow
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
12-hour anime
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
You forgot the Traverses!
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
Oh, crap. Frenesi is the first name, Traverse second. You're right!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, imago. Maybe I'll just read 10 pages at a time, sounds less daunting! Glad to hear AtD is good
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
so this is fun
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
into the inner jacket reflecting pink fluorescent light at me
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
my favorite parts so far are bambi and jade.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
"parts"
oh and saying Denis out loud in a Butthead voice
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
I read Inherent Vice.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
go on
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Monday, 14 July 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
was not so into this one
― the late great, Monday, 14 July 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
"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
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
― Number None, Saturday, 26 July 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
I wasnt even into this book but that seems perfect
― just sayin, Saturday, 26 July 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Friday, 15 August 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
Can't wait to get freaked out and watch this
― calstars, Saturday, 16 August 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
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/
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-films-inherent-vice.html
― j., Saturday, 27 September 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link