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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 14, 2024, 08:16:32 AM
Quote from: max from fearless on February 13, 2024, 06:23:10 PMRattle the fckin cages Paul, movies are kinda boring af right now. Pls, Rattle Rattle Rattle and electrocute!     

Now this is art! It wakes us up. It's what we need. Art is the greatest therapeutic tool available to the human soul—if we know how to use it.

Max's excitement! Our excitement! This is why first-rate artists should be fostered and cherished.

Knock it out of the park, PTA! Knock us all out. To give us food for thought, and therein, hopefully, make us better, more thoughtful people.
#52
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by max from fearless - February 13, 2024, 06:23:10 PM
Initially, from the bts clips, i also felt their was a touch of 'comic' 'zany' 'irreverence' (leo's wardrobe?) brewing with this movie (and i'm sure there still is, PTA is a tonal g) but NOW, having scrambled in the dark, with a few more random bits of bts from this week, which i am hyped and grateful for, the movie ALSO feels: frantic (skulking around) chaotic, paranoid, IN MOTION (car chases, running from police) and therefore propulsive! Teyana running from the cops, shiiiiiiii, I hope this stuff makes it into the picture!

The camera set ups for the police chases have been really interesting (a lot of movement) and the Vista Vision talk is cool (some of Poor Things is Vista Vision madness courtesy of Robbie Ryan)

Whether this is Vineland or not, one of my issues with PTA and Pynchon's IV Movie is that it felt a bit stilted, almost as if the movie had happened already and we were picking up some sort of replay feedback fumes (weed blowback?) somewhat like a hallucogenic staged play in parts (which maybe should've been even more trippy? too much loyalty to the text, perhaps?)

Whereas Phantom Thread felt so highly charged (the crackling fire from the off OMG delicious) drifting through rips in space-time with those amazing cross dissolves that pierced the veil to offer up spectral delights, yet with this furious, raw, viscious and delicous English interplay between all the live wire leads. (i've got a friend who is just like woodcock the twat, same freakin energy) But everyone in that movie LIVE WIRE, electric!!!! Locations costumes all so ALIVE and carrying so much of the load story wise....

Scrobby, when you spoke of revengers tragedy, I was hoping for a TWBB vibe with this one - something operatic, epic, highly focused, singular with a propulsive force guiding us out into the nether regions and emotionally violent gushers of its own (maybe cos subconsciously I want this to echo TWBB and be a cultural juggernaut with this budget and interest and TWBB is his 'biggest' movie to date (maaan, i still remember people who weren't PTA fanatics until that movie walking around talking about Milkshakes) But I digress, who TF knows what the hell this is!?!?!?!

I'm hoping it's electrical, full of sparks and shocks, even if it is a scattershot panorama or a more episodic portrait fare like Licorice Pizza, whatever tf it is, please let it be LIVE WIRE PTA!!!!

Rattle the fckin cages Paul, movies are kinda boring af right now. It took Godzilla Minus One to wake my ass up. Pls, Rattle Rattle Rattle and electrocute!     
#53
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 12, 2024, 06:13:19 PM
A fun thought : inside the mind of a putative PTA on the cinematic move as Scroob types : You'all in the Industry are burning energy on the awards circuit, expenditure otherwise channeled into art, while I, thank God, am doing it. You're chatting about the dream over cocktails. Me? I'm inside the dream; I'm burning film. And just wait till you get a load of me.
#54
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by ono - February 12, 2024, 05:08:43 PM
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Heisenberg - February 11, 2024, 02:45:40 PM
If this was the film he had in mind for Haddish when Phantom Thread came out, then he has been cooking this project up since at least 2017.
#56
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by jviness02 - February 11, 2024, 02:28:53 PM
Quote from: jzakko on February 11, 2024, 09:28:34 AMOne thing that just occurred to me is the fact that he's using a Girls Trip alum in Regina Hall. Feels all the more clear that his Haddish enthusiasm has fizzled.

Like all of us, he saw The Card Counter.
#57
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by jzakko - February 11, 2024, 09:28:34 AM
One thing that just occurred to me is the fact that he's using a Girls Trip alum in Regina Hall. Feels all the more clear that his Haddish enthusiasm has fizzled.
#58
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by AntiDumbFrogQuestion - February 11, 2024, 01:59:43 AM
Quote from: max from fearless on February 02, 2024, 02:52:45 PMFreakin love seeing Wood Harris who is incredible, get to play in the PTA sandbox. PTA don't give a fckkkkkk. This is why I get hyped for this boy. His projects are singular af, no pandering to who's hot who's not. There's no fear in our boy! Wishing them all the best for this shoot. WTF is this movie!?!?!

Simply enough, it is always exciting to see an alum from "The Wire" get action in a PTA feature...of course Michael K. Williams as Tariq Kalil was a serendipitous moment for this fanboy.
#59
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 10, 2024, 07:00:48 PM

Vineland Updates
@VinelandPTA
 
10/2/24 LOCATION: BC Project will spend four days shooting in San Juan Bautista, California, at the end of February.
Mission Plaza, Zanetta House, the Plaza Hotel bar and the mission itself have all been named as potential shooting locations. https://benitolink.com/hollywood-film-plans-to-shoot-scenes-in-san-juan-bautista/
#60
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 10, 2024, 04:59:48 PM
Someone must have mentioned the following

Since we're just blueskying here "to pass a piece", to no real effect—Has anyone noticed a vibe of irreverency hovering about the production?

Examples : Leonardo's antic telephone call; and his skulking along the overpass; and his questionable suit; and some of the seemingly light-hearted signage?

Is a comic element explicable in all this?

But since PT is the Triple Tone (a breathtaking rarity in narrative art), Scroob imagines that the humo(u)r of BC Project may be integrated into a more complex mood-engineering. Well, obviously.

Whatever BC Project turns out to be at its premiere, no doubt it'll be far more than that.