You might argue Anderson succeeds because Inherent Vice is the least good of all Pynchon’s books - Hitchcock always said you couldn’t make a great movie from a great book. This ecstatically good version of Inherent Vice not only captures Pynchon’s dominant moods and most of his ideas but also works as a piece of unexpectedly fine and unconventional filmmaking. Everyone believed it would be a hopeless quest to film Pynchon’s surreal breaks with realism, his high style and low jinks, his sophisticated discussions of entropy made flesh with unforgettably wacko characters like Benny Profane, Tyrone Slothrop, or Oedipa Maas.Īgainst all expectations, Paul Thomas Anderson has pulled it off. (These things may be discussed among you, starting now, dear readers.) But what was always assumed to be absolute truth was the sheer impossibility of turning any of his novels into a movie. to Bleeding Edge his rumor-provoking flight from fame into perfect paranoid anonymity and, of course, the widespread critical belief that he is our greatest living American novelist. People know Thomas Pynchon by a lot of arguable facts: his tricky (impossibly complex) books, from V. WHAT’S UP, DOC? Based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice stars Joaquin Phoenix as pothead PI Doc Sportello alongside lady friends played by Reese Withersoon (above) and Katherine Waterston (below).
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