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- Boogie Nights is based on a mockumentary short film that Anderson wrote and directed while he was still in high school called The Dirk Diggler Story. The short itself was based on the 1981 documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story, a documentary about the life of legendary porn actor John Holmes, on whom Dirk Diggler is based.
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Boogie Nights is based on a mockumentary short film that Anderson wrote and directed while he was still in high school called The Dirk Diggler Story. The short itself was based on the 1981 documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story , a documentary about the life of legendary porn actor John Holmes , on whom Dirk Diggler is based.
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- Paul Thomas Anderson
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- Michael Penn
Oct 7, 2022 · The story of Boogie Nights is based loosely on that of John Holmes, the adult film superstar of the late 1970s, who himself had a crime-related fall from grace. The homage was somewhat indirect; the 1981 documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story inspired Anderson’s short, The Dirk Diggler Story , which in turn was expanded into ...
- Garin Pirnia
- WAHLBERG INITIALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE MOVIE, BECAUSE OF SHOWGIRLS. At this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries—which is how Anderson discovered him—and was basically an underwear model.
- BURT REYNOLDS DISLIKED PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND THE MOVIE. It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed.
- REYNOLDS AND ANDERSON NEARLY CAME TO PHYSICAL BLOWS. Everybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along.
- ANDERSON THINKS A GOOD PORN STAR NAME SHOULD HAVE TWO “G”S AND ONE “K” IN IT. The director told NPR he’s not sure how he came up with the name Dirk Diggler, but for some reason he wrote the name down on an index card when he was 17 years old.
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Jan 22, 2015 · P.T. Anderson is a major American director, with 2007's There Will Be Blood consistently named one of the best films of the last decade. His new film, an adaptation of reclusive author Thomas Pynchon's shaggy-dog, hazy California detective novel Inherent Vice, is his seventh feature, and Anderson, still a young man (he was 27 when Boogie Nights was made, and two years younger when he helmed ...
- Justin Morrow
Sep 5, 2022 · Boogie Nights ' true story is more about John Holmes, on whom Wahlberg's character is based, but there are figures just like The Colonel operating in the porn world today (and outside of it), just as they were back when Boogie Nights is set.
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk...
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