Boogie Nights, and countless digressions

Shana 2022-01-26 08:06:34

He's a man of passion and mystery. He's a man of lust. I have

n't watched a new film for half a month, so I guess it can be ranked in my personal record. I watched this [Boogie Nights] half a month later, and I watched it in two nights. Since I wasn't on my list wanted before, I didn't have much interest. The only thing that attracts me is the director Paul Thomas Anderson, although his follow-up work [Magnolia] doesn't get such a high rating from me.
After watching half of it, I thought to myself: It turned out to be a film about the ecology of the porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s. The definition of "A-film ecology" seems to be given to him by Cai Mingliang [A Cloud in the Sky]. Unlike this [Boogie Night], which is complex due to its many characters, the meaning in [Tian] is probably to Only the discerning can see. I checked IMDB and found that Comrade Anderson had made a short film about Dirk Diggler as early as 1988 (but he was only eighteen at the time...), which is the character prototype of [Boogie Nights]. It is not difficult to see that the director's interest in this character and even the industry at that time, it may have been imagined for many years before the film was born, of course, it was indeed well received.
To be honest, I didn't and didn't intend to watch this movie carefully (I feel guilty =.=) Let Mark Wahlberg, who was twenty or six, play Diggler, who was seventeen in the film (sorry I have forgotten the original name of this child's simplicity) ), and many other places that made me sweat. Presumably that's how Anderson tells his story, grabbing our attention as perversely as Diggler, the film's rising star, and his adoring Bruce Lee, Al Pacino.
So the chain reaction that Buck got caught in was just like the little story of the shotgun that shot the boy who fell from the building before [Mulan], it was just an ironic coincidence. He can even take the bag of money on the ground quickly and get his wish, and suddenly everyone's story ends with a happy ending. Don't forget, what's really ridiculous is that frog rain in [Magnolia].
But before that, there was a moment of entanglement and pain. What I remember is the phrase I'm an actor that Buck repeated to people after he quit his old job. It's just that in the eyes of the other party, he is at most a pornographer. In addition to the narrated by the camera, Diggler who was crushed, Brandy who broke out on skates, and Amber who cried bitterly, these combined paragraphs almost became a condensed version of [Magnolia]. At least, it is also Zhang Yang, a tight, black smear among the vulgar things.

The number of famous actors is simply outrageous. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore of acting school, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham of Vase, and Philip S.Hoffman (of course, this gentleman has risen to the level of actor), John C.Reilly , William H. Macy...most of them, and then worked with the director [Magnolia].
Anderson, who completed these two critically acclaimed ensembles before the age of 30, was no ordinary person. It was early regarded as the successor of Robert Altman.
Oh, I almost forgot about the long prop-like dick in the last shot, but I just wanted to mention this unforgettable scene here.

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Boogie Nights quotes

  • Dirk: I know fucking karate.

  • Eddie Adams: [to his mother] You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't fucking tell me I'm not!