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Wahlberg tells of his future with Paul Thomas Anderson!!!
Harry here, and personally I would absolutely love to see either of the two projects that Wahlberg is talking about here.... The Musical or the Action Exploitation film. These can't go into production soon enough!
Hey Harry,
Just read that Paul Thomas Anderson will be writting and directing a musical
that he's writing. He'll most likely be doing it with Mark Whalberg.
Check it out.
--JM
UK's Hotdog Magazine has an interview with Mark Wahlberg in their January
2002 issue. He talks a bit about a possible upcoming musical project with
PTA as well as the Sandler/PTA project.
Hotdog - Jordan Riefe: What about a Musical?
MW: Actually, me and Paul Thomas Anderson have discussed it at length. Just
a matter of finding the right thing. He's actually writing one, which is
going to be crazy, a Paul Thomas Anderson musical. A lot of cocaine.
Hotdog: This isn't his next film, the Adam Sandler one?
MW: No, this is a kind of like a weird action drama thing he wrote. Kind of
like the Chest and Brock movie, the characters we came up with in Boogie
Nights, but a real, full-blown action feature with these guys running around
crazy.
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Two of the greatest names in the history of fiction. Is there any doubt that such a movie would be hilarious? NO, THERE ISN'T.
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I think PTA could pull it off. Bring it on. BTW is PTA a cokehead? This is the second reference to cocaine and PTA I heard today. Check out the Punchdrunk Love talkback. (I've only been up for an hour) I also remember an interview with PTA in which he said he did a lot of cocaine. Just curious
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Paul Thomas Anderson is of that very annoying breed of movie directors: glib copycats. He's got a mediocre sense of humor, an eye for stale caricature, and the uncanny ability to splice together the best techniques of 60s and 70s American Directors. Add non-sequitur plot twists, hollow magic realism, and insulting "shock value" subject matter to taste. Voila: a boring movie that's an hour too long that the critics gush over as "groundbreaking" and "unique." If anyone needs me, I'll be over the toilet...
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PT Anderson's "New York New York"? Me not liking the idea of Anderson's rehash of Chest and Brock Landers - this is very...fuck, I don't know, just don't like the idea of a writer or director coming back to old material (albiet great material) and try to make a gimmick of it. The way I'm staking things, a Brock Landers action film it will not be. And all you fucks, saying Anderson is better than Scorsese, why don't you just go ahead and say something like "Oh, Griffiths, who the fuck is that? Hasn't made a film in a while? Dead? Well, he's been replaced, probably sucked anyway." PT Anderson is a very good director at the very start of a hopefully amazing career (the motherfucker is 31) but by his own admission, he rips from the Greats. But everyone does. It's called INSPIRATION because Anderson builds and uses what he's learned from Scorsese's technique. Still, in the tiny galaxy of talented, honest writers and directors, there is no room for ranking. They may have a certain influence on you, you may love another's work over some else's, but don't say one is better than the other. You like another better than the other. You're probably a kid, so get a job, quit it and rent all of Scorsese's films, after that, rent all John Ford, all Hudson, all Hawks, all Mann (Anthony mind you) and the list goes on. See a pattern? Course you do. It's about art, not about childish usurping of some imaginary "the BEST!" ranking. And to those of you who thought Boogie Nights and Magnolia were showy nothings, try your best to find "Sydney" (it will be called Hard Eight though, because of the studio) and come back to the talkback and say that the man is not a hell of a talent. Amazing film. So here's a toast to a love for film, which PT Anderson clearly has. Cheers.
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but have you forgotten all about ZIM! Yes INVADER ZIM! the show that won sevreal promenent awards before it got canned! It sits there dieing from aids amd all YOU people can do is bitch about LOTR not winning any awards WELL FUCK YOU MISTER BEAR! YOU SPEAK LIES! LIES I TELL YOU!
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I don't know about the magazine itself but the information comes from Wahlberg in an interview so it would be Walhberg who is wrong not Hotdog.
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weasel_overcome, that was about the best, most articulate dismissal of PTA's style I have ever read...which is not to say that it isnt total bullshit! The key to understanding PTA's genius is to realize that, while the form of his films may be derivative, the content is uniquely his own. PTA does not hide behind ironic detachment or cold, cynical criticism--his movies are a blast of pure, unrepentant emotion. Now PTA has shown the balls to admit he loves one of the most loathed actors in the realm of filmgeekdom, and I cannot wait until the movie comes out so I can mock ye of little faith.
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Read the quote, its not going to be a Chest and Brock film - just like it.
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Does he?
Famously.
But, I think it just got a little less funny in the wake of Ted's death. Maybe a coke musical should sit on the back burner until it's tasteful again. Meanwhile, I'm writing a kid's show on how black tar heroin gives you magic powers...
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Jan 21, 2002 2:49:36 PM CST
magnolia is one of my favourite movies of all time, and i love B
by a goonie
can't wait. i love Anderson, i love his bold, epic style of direction, and his near-perfect writing... a musical would be divine.
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The PTA/Sandler setpic and this interview have been up at www.ptanderson.com for awhile, where they were obviously swiped from (this interview comes complete with ptanderson.com's original intro). How about giving credit where credit is due?
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Black tar heroin and magical powers? Sounds good. Let me know when it comes out. BTW was Demme's death an OD? I know thats the rumor. (I tend to think so) I hate to bash the guy because he seemed I know he's Harry's buddy. (I don't want to get banned a 6th time)
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Whoever the jackass that just wrote that Magnolia and AI are the two worst movies ever made... what the holy fuck are you on? Magnolia is powerful and great, AI is a tremendous, though tremendously flawed, achievment. Just go see Harry Potter again and stop whining about good movies that are a little bit long and ask you to think a little bit.
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Jan 21, 2002 4:27:48 PM CST
I almost had a heart attack when Wahlberg started singing that s
by cash bailey
Goddamn. The three things that defined my early childhood were Indiana Jones, ROBOTECH and TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. I sobbed like a little bitch when Optimus Prime was killed. I try to imagine the young kids now feeling the same way about Pokemon, but I just can't because Pokemon is nonsensicle bullshit. We were lucky as kids, we had great stuff like ROBOTECH, ASTRO BOY and HE-MAN but these poor tykes now are stuck with Pikachu and those crack-smoking TELETUBBIES.
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And yes, PTA is a total cokehead.
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Hey, I didn't know PTA was a coke head? Is he really? How do you know this for real? Are you 100% sure? Can someone please help me out and give me information and evidence that he IS a cokehead? -- I think it's really dissapointing to see someone with as much talant as Paul be a druggie. Directors get money and they don't know what to spend it on. So it's coke!
Thanks! Be cool!
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you tell em' Fluffy!
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While MAGNOLIA blew BOOGIE NIGHTS out of the water, you essentially have two HIGHLY ambitious films that eventually accomplish nothing. Yes, you can argue that they deal with the "gritty truths of reality," but my retort would be that they only display them, and refuse to deal with them. If you want to see much more "realist" cinema, there are many more talented filmmakers out there. I hate how AICN pays so much attention to PTA, and less attention to people like David Lynch or Michael Mann. And I also hate how no one on AICN seemed to realize what Mann was trying to do with ALI. I think Harry and Moriarty walked in expecting something like WHEN WE WERE KINGS, which is much, much different than what Mann was trying to make. I love ALI to death and put it in my top 5 movies to come out this year. GO SEE ALI, FOLKS! DOWN WITH THIS PTA CRAP!!!! (Harry, couldn't you feel the rush of emotion when Sonny Liston's mouthpiece hits the ground, the drums start pumping, and Will Smith starts screaming, "I'm 22 years old!! I ain't got a mark on my face!! I MUST be the greatest!!!!" ???) What an amazing film...
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This movie broke the bounds of cinema, dealing with subject matter that filmmakers have never dared to touch. Whether you can see through the technical flaws or not, you have to admit that. And this ending was Kubrick's ending. This and Memento are two of the most thought-provoking movies I have ever encountered. I wish AICN would have appreciated A.I. for that reason.
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i liked very much the scenes of cruise's character breaking down, and moore in the pharmacy, and the fact that robards' death scene took the entire movie (can't really think of where that's been done before, but i'm sure some bitter fanboy will rudely point it out for me very soon). i didn't see the actors the way you evidently did according to your whiny post, i saw characters. liked the frogs, too, man--sorry. i think that was anderson's point, that the melodramatic problems of all of these self involved characters were really not that important, that they could all be wiped out by something truly powerful or strange. was the movie flawed--sure, it wasn't perfect. could it have been shorter--hell yes. was some of it just too damn much--of course, but i'll take too damn much over not enough any day. i guess i just appreciate the effort more than you do. your last post about investing visual experience with the story was much more interesting though. i agree that the degree with which we react to the visuals is very much associated with our reaction to the story and the characters, but i think you have to give the visuals more credit that you did. the scene in shawshank that you said was not visually spectacular most definetely was. take a look at what you described--a shot of a phonograph, the shot in the yard of the prisoners looking up at the speaker, tim robbins smiling. that is not only concise storytelling (which is easier said than done) but it's done visually (aside from the music, of course), without characters running around explaing what just happened. by definition i think that makes them spectacular. and the shot of the prisoners in the yard in particular is spectacular, and very powerful, enough so that i remember it seeing it in the preview years ago. and i think you could have restructured the story (purely for the sake of the argument) to start with robbins already in prison and put this scene up front and gotten a very concise picture of him in the context of what life was like in the prison. in exactly the same way you challenged orson to re-evaluate why exactly he thought the visuals were so important, i think that as someone who is obviously more prone to be satisfied by characters and plot that you need to think more about how you derive that satisfaction. in the end, you can't arbitrarily say either plot or characters or visuals are more important than the others--a movie can be driven harder by one or more of them than the others, but you need them all to make a good flick.
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I've always thought of this as a movie fan site, but every time I check out the talkbacks I think there needs to be a new antonym for "fan" to describe AICN. It seems that the purpose of these virtual discusions is for each talkbacker to create a world of his own where his opinion of cinema is law where nobody has anything worthwhile to say, there is no other point of view, and people who don't think similarly so are the scum of the earth. I've always thought that a movie fan would much rather have people enjoy a movie that he didn't rather than the other way around. It's not enough to just not like a movie around here. You must say horrible things about the actors/writers/directors. You must degrade anyone who actually did enjoy it. In fact you must try to convince them that their experience which they connected with and found moving and enjoyable is worthless. You must convince them that they are stupid, uncultured, childish, uneducated morons for having liked the movie. WHAT HAPPENED HERE?????
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...and he paid too much homage to Martin Scorsese, who probably hates being overflattered. For the record, I didn't like Boogie Nights and Magnolia for a simple reason: pretentious and overindulgent. The majority of critics love to eat the shit served by PTA everytime his new movie is released. PTA even had the audacity to diss Rex Reed and Joel Siegal because he called them "assholes" for trashing his movies. Go home to your daddy, pompous first grade show & tell crybaby. It's as if PTA shouts at me and the audience from the screen (TV or projected) "Look at me! Look at how this scene was shot, edited and acted! Look at me, I direct better than direct-to-video trash heap losers making piece of shites starring Oliver Gruner, Gary Daniels, Dolph Lundgren, Jeff Speakman, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Nicole Anna Nicole Smith, the Coreys and Hulk Hogan! Look how I made Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and Jason Robards act virtuoso! Look how I stole the ending of Raging Bull for Boogie Nights in a single shot! Look at the shots rushing and swirling and pacing in long track! Look how moronic critics and idiot fanboy jerkoffs profess love for me, hailing me a genius director among the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman and Orson Welles! Aren't I brilliant?"
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Check out the (excellent) documentary on the MAGNOLIA disc.
For that matter listen to ANY of
his commentarys. You going to
tell me that he ISN'T doing blow?
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I like PTA. But I love that Lovage, baby.
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I hate this turd
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does it bother you that you're assholes?
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I like Tom Tykwer's quote regarding film: "Music plus image is film." Okay, so I paraphrased. Anyway, that's basically all a movie is. Sound and picture put together. Plot, characters, stories, those are all the result of books. People loved reading books, and they wanted their movies to have the same kind of stories. So thus, Hollywood's standard came along and we've been stuck there ever since. I don't think it's a bad thing, but people will automatically criticize something that doesn't fall into that very narrow view of what films should be. "Magnolia" is on the outskirts of that style, where its story does push the film forward, but it takes bizarre chances that pay off amazingly well. The dialogue, "This just happens" is wonderful in that it is so simple, and yet adequately sums up the weird oddities of the film. The frog plague is brilliantly allegorical, and not to mention totally original. I loved the subtle asides that were all leading up to the plague (the Exodus 8:2 sign in the audience, the Exodus 8:2 billboard on the side of the road). Not to mention, the moment when they all break into song is just breathtakingly haunting. "Magnolia" is one of the most inventive and beautiful epic dramas I've ever seen. Sad some people can't see it for what it is.
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Jan 23, 2002 8:50:23 PM CST
Mark Wahlberg was a very convincing monkey in Planet of the Apes
by crazy fresh dj
But making him sing? Surely that's bordering on animal cruelty. What next- make him roll around on rollerskates smoking a cigar? Get him and 1000 chimp mates to bang on typewriters long enough so they eventually produce a Dickens novel? so cruel. And by hte way, PTA and Scorcese are NOTHING ALIKE
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Heywood...this is not bitter, but in Being There, Melvyn Douglas' death scene takes up pretty much the entire film. Or at the very least, his impending death overshadows many of the events in the film, so there's one for you. It was also Peter Seller's last completed film, and his performance as Chance the Gardener is nothing short of fantastic. Highly reccommended drama with touches of comedy (the studio blurb on the video box is tripe). And Fluffy, since you know SO much about the art of filmmaking, why don't you make your own movie, release it, and then you can watch venomous talkbackers with nothing better to do rip you to shreds, ok? The Klaw has clacked!
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I can never understand you people. You spend all this time online reading about movies, talking about them and seeing whats coming out, and yet it is obvious that you are not able to think intelligently about them. I'm sure, from the posts above, that you are not fans of films like Magnolia and Citizen Kane and Nashville- and I know why. Those films are masterpieces. They require active viewing because they were written and directed with intent beyond merely entertaining the audience.
I know what you're thinking-"shut up. movies ARE entertainment". Heres what I say to that. I agree. Most movies that come out are entertainment. But some (the better and more thoughtful ones) are more than that. Take books for example. You read action adventure Tom Clancy type books for entertainment. They're fun to read. What are the great books? I'm sure even you would not say some Tom Clancy thriller type thing. The great books like the Great Gatsby and Moby Dick and Ulysses are the great books because there is more to them than just plot and action. They do more than entertain.
AS FOR MAGNOLIA, IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES OF RECENT YEARS!
Watch it again. See how seamlessly it cuts inbetween the 9 characters. If that were not done as smoothly as it is, with music and good editing and paralell storylines, we would be watching 9 stories instead of one. PT Anderson is a master of the camera. Watch how he uses it. It watches and listens and follows characters perfectly.He does not zoom it around in some pointless David Fincher-like flash of purposeless showmanship, he lets you watch the movie. Pay close attention to the shot that follows stanley (the kid) into the studio. It is perfect. tHE OPENING SHOT TO bOOGIE Nights is childs play compared to it.
Look at the plot. It is brilliantly constructed. The nine storylines running paralell to eachother. They reach levels of emotion at the same time, they flow together perfectly.
Watch how thoroughly it is directed- the magnolia pictures in every room, the 8-2's all over the place, the consistency of characters. And if you think its weird hat frogds fall from the sky, look at it like this: A)Frogs actually DO fall from the sky every now and then. Theyu get picked up by storms and then dropped elsewhere. B) Youre having a horrible day, you're life is coming down around you and then frogs start falling from the sky. It's perfect and well-timed.
If you think movies like that are weird and you hate them because of it, I pity you. If all you want to do is watch the same sort of thing over and over again, you will become truly dull. You must think about movies, and you will realize how most of them are boring and dull, while a small few are complex and thought out thoroughly and well directed, and are art as wella as entertainment.
It really pisses me off how people flock to the box offices to see the same usual blockbuster crap (spider man, starwars, the sum of all fears, the bourne identity) but are afraid of something different, even if it is ingenious.
Think about movies, and you will enjoy them like never before.
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