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Sexually evil
Hubert 2022-03-25 09:01:10
As early as December 2010, Anderson intended to adapt Thomas Pynchon's "Inherently Evil", but due to the earlier funding of another new film "The Master", "Inherently Evil" was temporarily shelved. "Inherently Evil" has a shell similar to Chandler's detective novels. Los Angeles private detective Doc meets his ex-girlfriend Shasta by accident, and hears an unsubstantiated story from her, a bizarre kidnapping case. , the victim - her current lover - is a "billionaire" real estate developer. Dokmin knew whether "love" was an ambiguous word that could get you into trouble at any moment, or if it had just sunk into Shasta's story, and it got deeper and deeper, surfers, pimps, drug dealers, rockers. Hands, loan sharks who committed murders, all kinds of people, etc., looming...
Extended Reading
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Sortilège: [from trailer]
[narrating]
Sortilège: If it's a quiet night out at the beach and your ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire- developer boyfriend, and his wife, and her boyfriend, and a plot to kidnap the billionaire and throw him in a loony bin...
Shasta Fay Hepworth: [approaches Doc] I need your help, Doc!
Sortilège: [continues narrating] Maybe you should just look the other way.
[pause]
Sortilège: But if you're Doc, it may all start to get a little peculiar after that...
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Doc Sportello: [from trailer]
[stumbling at the top of a staircase with his gun]
Doc Sportello: Did I hit you?