Licorice Pizza - Speculation & General Reactions

Tdog · October 15, 2020, 01:55:09 PM

Quote from: wilberfan on October 15, 2020, 01:49:27 PM
I don't know. Invading Russia has proven to be a disaster for everyone who's attempted it.

Well Ridley Scott's gonna give it a shot!

Alethia · October 15, 2020, 02:03:02 PM

Quote from: Tdog on October 15, 2020, 06:31:07 AM
Awesome. So PTA is moving into phase 3 of his career perhaps?

Hard Eight ---> Punch Drunk Love
There Will be Blood ---> Phantom thread
Soggy Bottom --->

And we're breaking his career up into these "phases" based on what? Anamorphic vs spherical? That doesn't work. Period piece vs present day? That withers under the lights, as well. Whip pans galore vs where's all the whip pans...? Nope. Ensemble casts vs single focus character studies? That too gets messy. Great music videos vs I guess that was a song he liked? Well, perhaps...but then ANIMA.

ono · October 15, 2020, 03:57:08 PM

Quote from: Tdog on October 15, 2020, 01:47:05 PM
Side note: but is anybody else disappointed that PTA isnt make Napoleon with Joaquin?

Imagine: PTA's Napoleon drafted from Kubrick's boxes. Joaquin as Napoleon.

Joaquin is too tall. And trying to pigeonhole PTA is unnecessary.

wilberfan · October 15, 2020, 08:58:23 PM

Quote from: wilberfan on October 14, 2020, 12:39:10 PM
In response to this article (and photos), someone on Reddit just made the following supposition/conclusion:

QuoteBased on the images provided, taken at night, and the camera monitors which can be seen, the image frame is a 2.39:1 aspect ratio—4-perf anamorphic, as there appears to be numbers and text, indicating the shutter and frame count, for example, just outside the framing lines, suggesting that there is no extra image outside of those lines; it won't be a 2.39:1 crop of a 4-perf or 3-perf, spherical lensed film.

It may be hard to judge exclusively from these images, but I'm very certain it's anamorphic.

The production company has just asked Alyson to take her article down.

Quotealysoncamus
sorry, I was asked by the production to take this down they say they want to keep a low profile because of COVID-19. I was not even revealing the location, that I found on Twitter by the way.

Lewton · October 15, 2020, 09:45:25 PM

Keeping a low profile because of COVID makes sense. I'm still not convinced they should even be filming this movie at this time but anyway. Also, personally, I think it's not even remotely important or necessary for us to know anything about the movie right now, and it's better to wait for information to arrive through the official channels.

(EDIT: I had a longer post here originally but I deleted most of it because I wasn't sure how my tone was coming across.)

wilberfan · October 15, 2020, 11:19:48 PM

I thought the original post was fine. But I completely get second thoughts.

Drill · October 16, 2020, 12:00:00 AM

I wonder why they went after her when there's already many photos and video out there. I'm not sure her site gets that many hits, either. And she obviously didn't really know anything about the production.

Maybe that was a climatic scene or something.

pynchonikon · October 16, 2020, 02:33:01 AM

Hopefully we will get an official press release once they wrap, sometime next month.

Alma · October 16, 2020, 03:33:14 AM

Hmm that's kind of weird given the article was mostly just a summary of what has come out so far. Maybe they didn't want people knowing about the big crowd scenes or something.

kingfan011 · October 16, 2020, 01:15:12 PM

just drove down Magnolia to a doctors appt. and saw Soggy Bottom base camp. Sort of funny seeing them setting up on to shoot on Magnolia for a movie that sounds kind of like Magnolia

Lewton · October 16, 2020, 05:10:44 PM

Quote from: Alma on October 16, 2020, 03:33:14 AM
Hmm that's kind of weird given the article was mostly just a summary of what has come out so far. Maybe they didn't want people knowing about the big crowd scenes or something.

I actually didn't see the original article but I assumed it indicated where they were filming. Or that the location could somehow be confirmed or estimated from the images. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) If a representative from the production company actually said they are trying to "keep a low profile," doesn't that basically mean they don't want a bunch of outside observers unnecessarily tracking and publicizing the production as they move from location to location? Because that kind of attention might complicate an already complicated situation (re: COVID)?

Another thought...there may be big name actors involved in this movie that we don't know about yet. Those actors may have intensely loyal/active fanbases, and they may not want to attract that kind of attention for the reasons I just mentioned. (Not trying to stoke curiosity by saying this but just speculating.)

Even if there wasn't a pandemic going on, I think they'd be justified in not wanting this movie to be introduced to the world in the form of unofficial photographs or whatever. I'm also wondering if they have asked other sites/people to stop leaking stuff and were simply ignored.

AntiDumbFrogQuestion · October 16, 2020, 06:34:25 PM

Quote from: eward on October 15, 2020, 02:03:02 PM
Quote from: Tdog on October 15, 2020, 06:31:07 AM
Awesome. So PTA is moving into phase 3 of his career perhaps?

Hard Eight ---> Punch Drunk Love
There Will be Blood ---> Phantom thread
Soggy Bottom --->

And we're breaking his career up into these "phases" based on what? Anamorphic vs spherical? That doesn't work. Period piece vs present day? That withers under the lights, as well. Whip pans galore vs where's all the whip pans...? Nope. Ensemble casts vs single focus character studies? That too gets messy. Great music videos vs I guess that was a song he liked? Well, perhaps...but then ANIMA.

I woulda thought "based on composer", but that'd make this, like, Phase 4 if it isn't Greenwood.
Although Penn and Brion have a similar aesthetic vs. Greenwood's more atmospheric sound.
Whatever, Just throwin' it out there.
Maybe from "The Camera moves quickly more often" to "meh, slow it down some".

Alethia · October 17, 2020, 01:24:30 PM

I was going to suggest Phase 1: single title card upfront, Phase 2: title card bookends, but PDL goes and fucks that right up.

Rooty Poots · October 17, 2020, 04:54:27 PM

Quote from: eward on October 17, 2020, 01:24:30 PM
I was going to suggest Phase 1: single title card upfront, Phase 2: title card bookends, but PDL goes and fucks that right up.

It's like the Supreme Court said about porn, you know it when you see it

jzakko · October 17, 2020, 08:09:37 PM

I feel like Punch-Drunk Love is its own phase.

His biggest two shifts are from Magnolia to PDL, and then PDL to TWBB.

Magnolia->PDL is him loosening up and becoming improvisational, which is when his films became more distinctively his.

PDL->TWBB is him calming down, maturing, with his aesthetic becoming more distinctively formal, less 'fidgety' in his own words.