Inherent Vice

[Perknose]

This movie is slated to come out early in January. It's an adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson of Thomas Pynchon's eponymous novel. Pynchon is probably my favorite living novelist, and maybe in my top three of all time. :wub:

That said, I find it hard to believe any movie version could successfully capture the gonzo hyperliterate lyricism of Mr. Thomas Pynchon. Hell, his feverishly inventive mind is barely contained between the covers of his own books.

But, dang, it's got one hell of a cast, and Anderson purportedly did this:

Paul Thomas Anderson reportedly went about adapting the book by typing it up word for word, then preceding from there.

Anderson's perspective of Los Angeles in the Seventies has been shown before in Boogie Nights in all its hedonistic glory, but in the case of Inherent Vice, he manages to capture the mood of L.A. in an earthy, yet naive glow that mirrors the energy and fear that erupted in the wake of the Manson murders and the rise of Nixon's silent majority.

LA in the seventies? I was there, mang.

No matter how you slice it, Anderson's film fits in the tapestry of other L.A. noir classics like Chinatown and L.A. Confidential, but with the comedic antics of a Cheech and Chong film or an episode of Gilligan's Island.

^^^ Do you even gonzo, bro? :biggrin: