- Director Anderson introduced that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon get along very well, and the two seem to have a language that others can't penetrate. Anderson has to always remind them, "It's shooting, don't chat!" The two had previously collaborated on the film. "Walk with the Song".
- Robert Downey Jr. was originally scheduled to play the lead role, but was later replaced by Phoenix. This is Anderson's cooperation with Phoenix again after "The Master". Later, Downey said that he withdrew from the film because Anderson believed that he was too old, not because of schedule.
- The film is the first time the work of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., a master of American postmodern fiction, has been put on the big screen. It is said that Pynchon himself expressed his approval for Anderson's adaptation of the script.
- All the scenes of Reese Witherspoon were filmed in three days. Both the director and Phoenix hope to change the script to increase her role. However, Witherspoon discouraged them.
- The film is distributed by Warner Bros., this is Thomas’s first film released by a major major studio since "Crazy Stupid Love" in 2002.
- Charlize Theron was the one who played the role of Shasta in the film. This role was later played by Katherine Waterston.
- According to Josh James Brolin, the original author of the novel Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. played a cameo in the film.
- The original title of the novel "inherent vice" is a term borrowed from maritime insurance, which refers to the inherent characteristics of the goods themselves that are easy to cause damage, that is, "inherent defects". The insurer shall not be responsible for the losses caused by the inherent defects of the goods, unless the parties have made a special agreement.
- The film will be shot on 35mm film throughout. The photographer will still be the Queen of Paul Thomas Anderson, the Oscar winner Robert Aswitt, and the editor will be the Oscar nominee Leslie Jones (who has worked with PTA in "Master" and "Wild Love") served.
Inherent Vice behind the scenes gags
2021-12-18 08:01
Extended Reading
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Leslie 2022-04-23 07:02:26
The PTA has mastered the art of how to make a movie that is inscrutable and boring
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Elinore 2022-04-23 07:02:26
20180401 revisited and laughed. Pynchon's Elegy of the Times was made into Lebowski 2.0 by PTA, which must be a cult classic ten years later. 20191014 35mm print @ New Beverly, perfect
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Sortilège: [Narrating] Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, "I love him", what else? With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way too overused.
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Michael Z. Wolfmann: I spent my whole life... I spent my whole life making people pay for shelter and all along I didn't realise... I didn't realise it was supposed to be for free. For free.