One Battle After Another (General Thread)

[PinkTeeth]

Score be like:

[Find Your Magali]

Interesting font/typography. Everything's just a little off-kilter, like it's our world, but not QUITE our world.

[max from fearless]

In a recent chat with Collider, Regina Hall spoke about the film, One Battle After Another, being complete and that she's happy for viewers to see it.

Oh yeah, it's wrapped. I am really excited for everybody to see it. PTA always makes something unique. He always makes something unique and different and it's always in his voice, but it's a stand alone and. It's great. The entire cast is great. So, I'm excited for it to come out.

[Find Your Magali]

So, without giving any book spoilers, I just started reading the book and I wonder if anyone has any predictions on whether the bonkers opening vignette will be in the movie.

[ono]

Some people here have seen it.  Lucky bastiges.  There's so much discussion going on in Discord, lending to why this place is such a ghost town.

[HACKANUT]

Most of that talk is NDA-breaking so discussions will hit the forum when we're able to publicly talk.

[Find Your Magali]

This week's 2-minute trailer should make it easier for folks who haven't seen the film to speculate about things like characters, plot points, in what year the movie is set, divergences from the book, etc.

[Alethia]

What a goddamn trailer!

[Heisenberg]

Yeah this looks like it's going to be his funniest film yet

[Find Your Magali]

Yeah this looks like it's going to be his funniest film yet

But also dark.
And grim.
And timely.
And subversive.

A film for 2025 that still, from this trailer, appears to be set in 1985.

[Find Your Magali]

OK, I'll admit that some of the background vehicles add murkiness to the year/decade of the setting, but there are no dead giveaways that this is set "today." It feel like we're catching up with late 1960s revolutionaries in the 1980s, sticking with Vineland on that front.

[RudyBlatnoyd]

That trailer is giving me flashbacks to when everyone at early screenings of Licorice Pizza was saying that it was PTA in a more audience-friendly mode - and then it came out and was as deeply peculiar as all of his late work.

Anyway, this looks very fun - and strange. I'm sure it'll be divisive but I'll be there opening night.

[Alethia]

Spoiler: ShowHide

It's definitely set today, guys. No question. Begins in flashback, fast forwards to a pretty recognizable now.

[Find Your Magali]

Some interesting thoughts from Ethan Warren (some spoilers if you don't want Vineland conjecture): https://between-art-and-life.ghost.io/one-trailer-post-after-another/

[jzakko]

Some people here have seen it.  Lucky bastiges.  There's so much discussion going on in Discord, lending to why this place is such a ghost town.

Not too familiar with Discord, is there a PTA specific community on there?