Holy this kino was boring. Why did PTA pick such a pleb pinecone book...

Holy this kino was boring. Why did PTA pick such a pleb pinecone book. Mason and dixon would have been the patrician choice

Yeah a 2-hour Hollywood version of Mason & Dixon would have been great eh

It feels a little weird that Pynchon approved this to be honest. I haven't seen it (or read IV) but the other Pynchon I've read is very word-based. I can't imagine him working well in movie form

I haven't read the novel but I do enjoy the film. It's like Chinatown on acid.

he was trying to get in on that big lewbowski money

>look at me I'm so patrician.

Both the movie and the book were great

Movie was perfect. You're a disease.

M&D needs a 8-10 episode miniseries or nothing.
That was Coen brothers

It was a fun little movie. PTA is for sure a pleb though. I recall an interview where he admitted that he's never managed to finish Gravity's Rainbow.

he's a kino god

pynchon liked him a hell of a lot more than he'd like you
grow up

yeah marc maron asked him if he'd read gravitys rainbow and you can tell pta was like "dammit whyd you ask me that, im not gonna lie, but i dont relish outing myself as a pleb either" as he said he hadnt.

in the same interview he recalled how he had dfw as a prof at emerson. can there be any doubt that when infinite jest came out he bought it and at least tried to read it? your fav prof from back in the day put out a huge novel that everyones clamoring about... he probably bought it on day 1. furthermore i also like to think that he had infinite jest in mind when he did magnolia. like, here's my american epic, here's my infinite jest, with its multiple characters and intersecting storylines, the 3 hour movie is the 1000 page novel, and so on. and i like to think he was trying to ape infinite jest's blue sky poster when he did the poster in pic related (which, if i recall the making of magnolia correctly, he actually did or had a hand in).

i like to think all this shit because it makes that much more fucked up that dfw wrote to don delillo in the late 90s that hed just seen two movies, the matrix and magnolia, and that the matrix was great but magnolia was garbage, calling it "100% gradschoolish in a bad way"

If you unironically use the word kino in a Veeky Forums post you're in no position to be telling anyone they need to grow up. Besides, I don't think he's a bad director or anything, just a pleb when it comes to literature.

>dfw wrote to don delillo in the late 90s that hed just seen two movies, the matrix and magnolia, and that the matrix was great but magnolia was garbage, calling it "100% gradschoolish in a bad way"
Wow, shit taste much

can't hope for anything but shit taste from the sinceritymeister

>tfw half way through IJ
>i watch some movie called magnolia last week
>holy shit the similarities
it's one of my favorite movies and he very obviously was going for an "infinite jest" movie adaptation.
if anyone is going to adapt infinite jest it's got to be p.t. anderson.

Even Pynchon uses that word, kys

No u, fampire.

Yes I do
t. Pynchon

such*

I'm ten minutes into Magnolia. How could DFW say that about his film? It's a fucking unofficial adaptation of IJ.

i believe he said he wanted to adapt something by pynchon, originally Against the Day, then decided on inherent vice because it had just come out.

the book is entertaining and so is the movie

Coen brothers would've done a much better job

You're fucking crazy. It couldn't have been better. Those guys already made inherent vice anyway

is this pynchon?

What kind of retard do you have to be to think an 800 page book can be adapted into a 2-hour film?

Inherent Vice wasn't a very good adaptation, but l doubt anyone could have made it any better. PTA is GOAT and the film is perfectly fine if you consider its own merits instead of comparing it to the book.

IV isn't your typical Pynchon book. It's probably the only book of his that could have been adapted.

>Still thinking there was a Pynchon cameo

no but here he is on the right

>pinecone book
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Oh my god the madman actually did it