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May 3, 2024 · Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Inspired by Cult ’80s Movie. The plot was originally reported by Deadline as having ”a contemporary setting and it is the most commercial one that PTA has...
Nov 9, 2023 · November 9, 2023. Image Credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube. Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film will reportedly be an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel ‘Vineland.’. Set in 1984 California, the film revolves around an ex-hippie named Zoyd Wheeler, who performs a bizarre annual ritual to secure mental disability checks.
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- Paul Thomas Anderson Got The Idea For The Master 12 Years Before It Hit Theaters
- Joaquin Phoenix Improvised Breaking The Toilet in The Jail Scene
- Reese Witherspoon Was The First Choice to Play Peggy Dodd
- Contrary to Popular Belief, Lancaster Dodd Was Not Based on L. Ron Hubbard
- Paul Thomas Anderson Edited The Trailers Himself
- Joaquin Phoenix’s Parents Escaped from A Cult in The 1970s
- Jeremy Renner Was Originally Cast as Freddie Quell
- Tom Cruise Hated The Movie’S Thinly Veiled Critique of Scientology
- The Master Was The First Movie in Over A Decade to Be Shot on 65mm
- Joaquin Phoenix Spent Three Months in Character
When The Masterhit theaters in 2012, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson told the New York Times that he originally came up with the idea for the story 12 years earlier, which would’ve been in 2000. This was one year after Anderson had directed Tom Cruise – arguably the world’s most famous Scientologist – to an Academy Award nomination in Magnolia...
A few days into the shoot, Paul Thomas Anderson noticed that Joaquin Phoenix would really dive into the energy of a scene and use all the space available to him, even if it was outside the marks. So, the director told the lighting crew to keep the whole space lit in case Phoenix went off-grid and the camera needed to follow him. The actor improvise...
Amy Adams earned an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Peggy Dodd in The Master. Reese Witherspoon was the first choice to play the role, but she turned it down. Witherspoon ended up appearing in Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie, Inherent Vice. Amanda Seyfried and Emma Stone were considered for the part of the Dodds’ daught...
Due to The Master’s commentary on the Church of Scientology, many viewers have assumed that Lancaster Dodd was based on L. Ron Hubbard. However, Paul Thomas Anderson’s screenplay drew influences from a number of different people. RELATED: The 10 Most Memorable Characters In Paul Thomas Anderson Movies, Ranked He brought in elements of John Steinbec...
Without any permissions or supervision from studio executives, Paul Thomas Anderson edited the trailers for The Masterhimself. These trailers were noteworthy for featuring barely any footage from the movie. Most of the footage seen in the trailers was removed from the final cut, so moviegoers were able to go in fresh when The Masterwas released.
The Masteris a movie about the dangers of getting seduced by a cult. Its star, Joaquin Phoenix, was partly raised in a cult that his parents joined — the notorious Children of God — in the 1970s. In the movie, Peggy Dodd announces that the Cause will be publishing her husband’s new book in Phoenix, Arizona, because “Phoenix” symbolizes new beginnin...
When Paul Thomas Anderson first got the funding together to shoot The Master for Universal in 2010, Joaquin Phoenix wasn’t available to play the lead role of Freddie Quell because he was working on I’m Still Here. So, Anderson cast Jeremy Renner in the role. After financing the script, Universal decided to pass on The Master and it spent a brief st...
Out of respect for his Magnolia star Tom Cruise, a dedicated follower of Scientology, Paul Thomas Anderson screened The Masterfor him to get his feedback. The Church itself has not officially commented on the film, but according to Anderson, Cruise objected to a few scenes in the film. RELATED: Joaquin Phoenix's 10 Best Movies According To Rotten T...
Paul Thomas Anderson shot The Master on 65mm using Panavision’s System 65 camera, making it the first movie to be shot on this format in 16 years. The last one before The Master was Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 movie adaptation of Hamlet. It was the first of three movies in the 2010s to be shot on 65mm, later followed by Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful E...
If the behind-the-scenes revelations about the recent Joker movie — which was carried on the shoulders of Joaquin Phoenix’s riveting performance doing overtime with a weak, derivative script— it’s that Phoenix is a fiercely committed leading man. He reportedly stayed in character as Freddie Quell for the entire three-month shoot of The Master, whic...
The Master is a 2012 American psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II Navy veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the leader of a cult ...
Sep 21, 2012 · The Master: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Joaquin Phoenix, Price Carson, Mike Howard, Sarah Shoshana David. A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
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Oct 1, 2012 · Paul Thomas Anderson's new film "The Master" is... ambiguous. What they don't agree on is whether, as we say in the software world, that's a bug or a feature. Is the movie "demanding" and artfully elusive, challenging audiences by refusing to offer a conventional dramatic catharsis or provide an artificially wrapped-up ending; or is the thing ...
Sep 4, 2012 · Anderson has basically been saying—until now, at the Venice Film Festival, where Anderson finally admitted that, yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman's character is inspired by Scientology founder L....
