Paul Thomas Anderson and Elvis Mitchel on "There will be blood" Part 2

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[bashthebandello]

PTA = Genuis

[ryanfoley123]

PT is PT and Kubrick is Kubrick.

Another point- Your comment reveals that you know very little about PT and you know very little about Kubrick. The movies of PT and the movies or Kubrick are hardly related in terms of content and impact. It would be more apropriate to compare PT to Robert Altman or Jean Renoir.

[DarkquestDeathhunter]

@ryanfoley123 Yes, but there is something of 2001 in the opening sequence of TWBB....especially when the well is first struck. There is a 'dawn of man' feeling there that is undeniable. If you had to have the closest analogy, TWBB is probably Anderson's Barry Lyndon, without the narration of course. Some of the blocking is also very Paths of Glory-esque. To say that there is no influence is patently absurd and points to the fact that YOU know very little about Kubrick.

[DonRMB]

@ryanfoley123 Disagree. Paul is my 2nd favorite director and IMO His movies totally relate to: Scorsese(The constant moving camera,Boogie nights is pretty much Goodfellas with Pornstars(The style and the strutcture is the same),Altman(The group of characters connecting with each other), Demme(Has taken so many shots from demme, that I wouldnt know where to begin) ,Kubrick(Watch Punch Drunk Love xD),Spike Lee(Has taken lots of shot from Spike too,also he's films have the same type of ambiguity)..

[malows1234]

@ryanfoley123 nah i think pta has kubrick traits u know why?well its because there is a ambiguity to the films, a very "every viewer has a different meaning" type of films, his films dont explain stuff crystal clearly to the audience, no easy answers.

[inrwizards]

id say that anderson does have a kubrickesque touch. particularly in their approach to direction, maybe not so much in the themes their films cover though they are both fond of outsiders, who always make the best characters anyways

[grazingabout]

@ryanfoley123 I read somewhere that There Will Be Blood was a bit of a love letter to Kubrick. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

[dextersmith2000]

Anderson sounding totally in love with the process of creating a wonderful film !

[trulysarcastic]

I thought Platoon was great. I agree with that Full metal Jacket kind of loses it's pace in the second half, they feel like two different movies. I thought Charlie Sheen did a good job in Platoon, but you could argue they could of got someone better

[JesusCristo2002]

mrmovieguide, I've seen your videos I have alot of respect for you. If you loved "Platoon", and psychologically and emotionally made an impact upon you and how you perceptively view film. THat's perfectly fine, I was just dissapointed by the film.

[mrmovieguide]

so you sginificantly talk about the bootcamp segment in full metal jacket which I agree was absolutely brilliant the problem I had was with the other half where they reach vietnam which I thought was not as powerful as the first half and if you think about it platoon is quite different from full metal jacket because platoon talks essentially about the war itself whereas full metal jacket talks more about the process that changes them into weapons of destruction