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The couple had a rather untraditional wedding, which suited them perfectly. Mike and Catherine welcomed their family and friends to the ceremony together, and once everyone was situated the groom walked his bride down the aisle.
After eating some good ol' Cajun food there was lots of dancing; dancing that included a rendition from footloose. As the evening progressed the karaoke machine was brought out, that's when the real fun began. The wedding day ended with a game of Magic among close friends.


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Hello pleb here. I have finally got round to buying some wheels for my '93 breadvan, they are 13"x6J BBS offset is 33. wondering what the best bet for tires is and not having problems with scrubbing, car is not lowered at all. cheers for any help, again sorry for being dumb.
I was looking into where my front wheels were rubbing after putting some larger wheels on that friend lent me to try. Turns out it was rubbing on the drivers side arch because that wheel sits about an inch further back than the passenger side wheel. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should investigate first, it's not the wheels themselves. Could worn bushes cause this? My initial thought was that the wishbone could be bent but it's never had a bump or anything.
wheels What wheels do people have on their Mk2/mk2f's?
Having a really hard time trying to find wheels that will go with my Mk2f, was just wondering if you could show me what wheels you have or recommend some?
I have bought some steel wheels from a bmw e30, they fit well but was wondering if they need to be balanced. They already have weights on and not too sure if that counts.
g60 Are these genuine G60 wheels??
1st post didn't show? so hope this doesn't duplicate. Just got a Mk3 Polo and after replacing both rear bearings, have discovered the horrible noise coming from the back was due to flat spots in the tires. Not a fan of 13" anyway but looks like it might be cheaper to buy a 2nd hand set of wheels than replace 3 tires (1 on the front is bad too). I have been offered these wheels shown in photo off a Mk2. They are been sold as 14" G60's but i have heard there is a VW winter wheel? that looks similar. Can anyone identify if these are genuine G60's? Also, what's the going rate £££ for the wheels in the photo? Wether they be G60's or otherwise. Thanks.
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Q: Pandas Merg and Calculation in Matrix I have problems with a matrix search and calculation.
I have a df1 with different year values for each indicator and country.
I have a df2 with combinations of countries and yearly values.
The desired output is df3 where each country combination has a new column with the product of the indicator created and calculated.
I tried several things with loc and splitting but was not able to achieve it.
Df1
df1 =pd.DataFrame({'Country':['Armenia','Azerbaidjan','Belarus','Armenia','Azerbaidjan','Belarus'],\
             'Indictaor':['G','G','G','H', 'H', 'H'],'2005':[3,4,5,6,7,4],'2006':[6,3,1,3,5,6]})

Df2
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'Year':[2005,2006,2005,2006],
                    'Country1':['Armenia','Armenia','Azerbaidjan','Azerbaidjan'],
                    'Country2': ['Belarus','Belarus','Belarus','Belarus']})

Df3
df3 = pd.DataFrame({'Year':[2005,2006,2005,2006],
                    'Country2': ['Belarus','Belarus','Belarus','Belarus'],
                    'Country1':['Armenia','Armenia','Azerbaidjan','Azerbaidjan'],
                     'IndictaorGProduct':[15,6,35,5],
                      'IndictaorHProduct':[24,18,28,30]})

A: You can do like this. It is only one of many ways I think.
df[df['col'] == hoge] which returns match hoge.
Add new column with a list to dataframe.
G = []
H = []

for i in range(4):

    rowlist = df2.iloc[i].to_list()

    year = str(rowlist[0])
    country1 = rowlist[1]
    country2 = rowlist[2]

    # make G list
    tmp1 = df1[df1['Indictaor'] == 'G']
    row1 = tmp1[tmp1['Country'] == country1].index[0]
    tmp2 = df1[df1['Indictaor'] == 'G']
    row2 = tmp2[tmp2['Country'] == country2].index[0]
    G.append(df1[year].iloc[row1] * df1[year].iloc[row2])
    # make H list
    tmp1 = df1[df1['Indictaor'] == 'H']
    row1 = tmp1[tmp1['Country'] == country1].index[0]
    tmp2 = df1[df1['Indictaor'] == 'H']
    row2 = tmp2[tmp2['Country'] == country2].index[0]
    H.append(df1[year].iloc[row1] * df1[year].iloc[row2])

df2['IndictaorGProduct'] = G
df2['IndictaorHProduct'] = H
print(df2)

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While you might think swimming in a tub of chocolate sounds like a dream, you might want to think about it again. Think back to the scene where Augustus Gloop fell into the River of Chocolate. Well, two employees working at the M&M plant in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, experienced this nightmare themselves.
Employees were trapped for more than an hour and according to a report in Food & Wine, workers became trapped in the chocolate that was waist-high. They said they had been wading through chocolate that was "kinda dry" for about an hour before firefighters showed up to rescue them. However, the rescue mission was not so simple. It wasn't just about getting them out of the chocolate. Lancaster County 911 Dispatch Communications Supervisor Brad Wolf shared: "The fire brigades have gotten rid of pulling them straight out of the tank. They have to cut a hole in the side of the tank to get them out." Firefighters came to rescue workers from chocolate after a giant chocolate mess, Lancaster County 911 Dispatch Assistant Superintendent Nick Schoenberger told CNN: "One patient was transferred [to a hospital] By road and one person was transported by helicopter." It remains unclear how the workers ended up stopping in the first place, nor is it clear if they sustained any serious injuries before or during the rescue mission. This is not the first time In 2018, Westönnen, Germany, was flooded with chocolate after a leak from a storage container at the FreiMeister factory.The streets were completely covered, and before firefighters could shovel the chocolate, hot water had to be poured into Streets to lubricate spilled chocolate. What might sound like a dream was actually a nightmare
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NOC website: The shame of a nation of sports-loving people
It is unpardonable that the website of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, in an Olympic year, and five years after the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has nothing about the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, but is replete with articles related to an event that took place half a decade ago. We can only hope that this lapse and other blunders noted in this video that cost Team Nigeria dearly at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be corrected before the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Man City fans 'proud' to welcome 'top signing' Grealish to club
Manchester City fans react to the news that the club has signed Jack Grealish for a British record fee reported to be £100 million. "I think it's a fantastic decision," one fan says, while another adds, "I think it's a top signing."
Fans react as Simone Biles takes bronze medal in women's balance beam final
Team USA's Simone Biles took to the Olympics podium after winning bronze in the women's balance beam final. It was Biles' first taste of competition in Tokyo since standing down during the women's team final last week to focus on her mental health.
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Bucks fans were seen in front of the official team shop outside the home stadium of the Milwaukee Bucks Fiserv Forum on Wednesday in downtown Milwaukee after their side won the NBA title the previous night. The Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in 50 years with some fans having waited their whole lives to see the team.
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Thai artist paints beloved dead anime characters for mourning fans
Anime lover and artist Jinnipha Nivasabut has painted 50 portraits of her favourite dead anime characters to explore the impact of the death of fictional characters on the audience. The oil paintings caught the eye of a curator and fellow anime lover who commissioned Jinnipha's work and launched the '2D Afterlife' exhibition. Here, anime anime fans can pay respect to their beloved heroes and villains with a twist of Thai funeral rituals where sandalwood flowers and red Fanta are used as offerings to the dead.
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Home » News and Trends » And now, Moderna signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur
And now, Moderna signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur
By Philip Hemme
Moderna is the Biotech company that raised the biggest VC round ever ($450M) and which signs deals almost every week. It signed a $50M deal with Merck two weeks ago, and now signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur from Paris through its new Venture Valera.
Moderna is developing a proprietary mRNA therapeutics platform. Instead of producing the drug to inject it into patients, it injects mRNA which penetrates into cells and will be expressed to produce the therapeutics locally. Moderna is frankly one of the most impressive Biotech company I have ever seen, during LaBiotech Tour Boston. Here is the entire interview:
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This January, Moderna launched its new venture Valera which focuses on infectious diseases. At the same time as the launch, it announced a $50M partnership with Merck. The director of research form Merck Roger M. Perlmutter stated in Forbes "We had the opportunity to really get in under the hood. Moderna is a company that we've talked with and known for quite a long time. So we had the opportunity to look at them carefully and to look at the data that they've produced pre-clinically, and frankly, it's enormously impressive." I've been used to American exaggeration but not as excessive, the data they have must be very solid, as the one they published in Nature Biotechnology.
Now, Valera signed a strategic partnership agreement with Institut Pasteur, the prestigious French research institute founded by Louis Paster 125 years ago after his discovery of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. Institut Pasteur has extensive expertise in infectious diseases and it will collaboration with Valerna to work on pre-clinical and clinical programs based on Moderna's RNAm technology. An entirely new way for Institut Pasteur to pursue their fight against infectious disease and a solid academic partnership for Moderna.
Now, I am just wondering when the next deal of Moderna will be announced.
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Well the first thing, so cliché, is I would just want them to be so happy and have happiness in their life whatever that means for them. And you know its difficult for me to say for different kids because they can be at all sorts of different levels but generally speaking I would want them to have all the tools in their toolbox just to approach life, whether they have special needs or no special needs at all. Just having all the tools possible to access their greatest success and greatest goals and really feel proud of themselves in whatever capacity that is. I think there are, of course, people who would define it by success in a job or success monetarily which can of course add to a good life as well, but I feel very strongly about happiness and having all the things in your life that bring you happiness.
Baseline, providing an environment for students that is safe where they can go to school and feel like they can make mistakes and figure things out and problem solve at their speed and feel successful. In conjunction with whoever is raising the child, social emotional learning needs to be a huge component of every child's curriculum, every day. If we aren't meeting those needs then nothing else is going to be accomplished effectively. If we want good global citizens that are passionate about anything and are caring and want to take care of the next generation then we need to be doing those things and focusing on those things first.
Do you think everyone agrees with you about the role of schooling within that?
I think its probably divided I think some people think the role of schooling is to learn academics and then all of the social emotional stuff and all of the behavior should be taken care of by the parent and the other half thinks it should be in conjunction with the school.
In the past 10 years or so I've seen a huge switch – when I first started teaching I didn't see social emotional learning embedded in curriculum - if it was there it was because it was innately there within the teacher and now schools and districts are starting to pay attention to it and starting to see the value in it and they are taking baseline data on how students feel at school and those emotional roles are played everyday. I don't think that piece of education is growing fast enough but I do see progress.
Many different things – I think that we need to be, all of us, everyone in the community, needs to be taking part in raising children that will be impactful citizens in the world and in their communities and that means academically, social emotionally, behaviorally – all of those things need to be in line. Students need to learn how to be adults and that is the role of school, like how are you going to function as an adult in this world and contribute to society in a meaningful way.
What does meaningful mean to you?
I think it has its own definition within education. Meaningful in that whoever it is about – whoever is using the world meaningful or whoever it is being used for – that that person is experiencing something and they are really critically thinking about that experience and being impacted by that experience, whether it's a lesson or how they feel when they arrive at school every day.


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A. A woman was seen stripping off her clothes, down to her bra and shorts, as she walked along Maple Street from Williams Street at about 10:13 p.m. Jan. 27. When confronted by police, she claimed she was hot and denied using drugs or alcohol. She also declined medical treatment.
B. A woman reportedly pulled a knife on security personnel at Menards, 2315 Bluemound Road, at about 2:01 p.m. Jan. 31 after she was confronted for shoplifting. She fled the store shortly thereafter. Police conducted a search at neighboring properties, including The Home Depot across the street, but she was not located.
C. A 37-year-old man injured his hand in a confrontation with individuals whom he said fraudulently used his credit card. The incident happened in the 500 block of North East Avenue at about 8:53 a.m. Jan. 27.
D. A homeowner found his garage door open and saw a suspicious vehicle take off and three men run through neighboring backyards when he emerged from his house in the 500 block of Century Oak Drive at about 1 a.m. Jan. 28. Police dispatched four squads and located a vehicle fitting the description nearby, but it was unoccupied. No suspects were identified.
E. A 16-year-old boy grabbed some cigars and ran out the door of Phillips 66, 1505 E. Racine Ave., at about 7:38 a.m. Jan. 28. The station said the youth may live in the neighborhood. Store officials were going to review store video for more information.
F. A woman's purse was stolen by another woman at Donnie Boy's Tap, 362 W. Main St., at about 8:32 p.m. Jan. 28. The woman searched the downtown area looking for the suspect, but did not locate her.
G. A woman reported her boyfriend pushed her and hit her in the back of the head while she was in the shower at her residence in the 500 block of Oakland Avenue at about 12:48 p.m. Jan. 29. The man told police he would come to the police station to discuss the matter. He was not immediately arrested.
H. A driver was arrested for intoxicated driving following a traffic stop in the 400 block of West Sunset Drive at about 11:45 p.m. Jan. 29.
I. The back door of a residence in the 1900 block of Harvest Lane was kicked and a safe was taken prior to 9:14 a.m. Jan. 30.
J. Two rings were taken from a residence in the 2700 block of Northview Road between 4 and 4:30 p.m. Jan. 28, possibly by a man who claimed he had bumped a water main outside while clearing snow and had to come inside the victim's house to check something.
K. A vehicle was broken into in the 2300 block of Patrick Lane overnight Jan. 30-31. The owner was unsure if anything was taken. The driver side window was smashed.
L. A checkbook, a wallet and some change was taken from a vehicle in the 2400 block of Pebble Valley Road prior to 8:05 a.m. Jan. 31. Also, a catalytic converter was removed from a vehicle in the 2400 block of Pebble Valley Road prior to 3:22 p.m. Feb. 2.
M. Carroll University requested police issue a trespassing citation to a man who was trying to buy books from students in the 200 block of Wright Street at 1:45 p.m. Jan. 31. According to security, video surveillance showed the man walking through various campus buildings. The man reportedly had been warned to stay off the campus last year. Police indicated a letter of warning would be sent out indicating the man would be arrested for trespassing if he returns to the campus.
N. Two women were arrested for disorderly conduct after one of them allegedly tried to punch an employee at Walgreens, 230 Madison St., at about 6:12 p.m. Jan. 31. According to reports, the store suspected the woman of shoplifting. When they were confronted, an argument ensued.
O. A woman was arrested following a domestic incident in which she allegedly threw a glass at a man and hit him with a phone in the 1600 block of Legend Hill Lane at about 10:44 p.m. Jan. 31.
P. A two-vehicle accident — one that crashed into a tree and one that ended up in a ditch — resulted in one arrest for intoxicated driving at Highway 59 and South Grand Avenue. The accident, with injuries, was reported at 8:14 a.m. Feb. 1.
Q. About 300 DVDs were stolen from a residence in the 400 block of North Moreland Boulevard prior to about 5:46 p.m. Feb. 1. A man said suspected a woman who had been staying with him for a week. One person was subsequently arrested.
R. One driver was arrested following a road-rage incident in the 2500 block of North Grandview Avenue at about 3:52 p.m. Feb. 2. The driver, a man who reportedly threatened the caller, allegedly recklessly pulled into traffic, blocking the southbound lanes and almost causing an accident. After confronting the caller, he reportedly sat on his vehicle's rear bumper and challenged the other driver to get out and fight him.
S. A driver was arrested for intoxicated driving following a hit-and-run accident near Main Street and West Avenue at about 12:26 a.m. Feb. 3. A witness recorded video of the scene and saw two people walk away from the damaged vehicle.
T. A speeding driver was arrested following a 11-mile pursuit by police and sheriff deputies that began at Bluemound Road and Springdale Avenue in Waukesha at about 1:53 a.m. Feb. 3 and continued at speeds up to 95 miles per hour on Interstate 94. The vehicle was eventually disabled by spike sticks near Moorland Road in Brookfield at about 2 a.m.
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The Rus' initially appeared in Serkland in the ninth century, traveling as retailers along the Volga trade route, promoting furs, honey, and slaves, in addition to luxury goods similar to amber, Frankish swords, and walrus ivory. These goods have been largely exchanged for Arabian silver cash, called dirhams. Hoards of ninth century Baghdad-minted silver coins have been present in Sweden, particularly in Gotland.
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As I start writing this I haven't read any reviews or comments on THE MASTER yet, but I'm betting there's alot of this:
1. It's a masterpiece, if you don't get it you're dumb, why don't you go see some mainstream movie like whatever that one movie is called, the one that you like, I don't know the name because I don't watch that kind of crap or know what it is
2. It's pretentious nonsense that is pretentious, if you like it it's Emperor's New Clothes. It's totally meaningless. Boring. The critics! Fuck!!!!!
Probly heavier on #2.
I would like to propose a third view, which is B. Kind of in the middle of the two. But in a separate column I think.
This is not a normal movie, so my thoughts could change after more time for digestion, or after a second viewing, which I don't necessarily foresee happening, but life is full of surprises. It is easily the least entertained I have ever been by a Paul Thomas Anderson joint. But it's good.
Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix from 8MM) is a Naval veteran who comes back from the war with his brain not quite in one piece. He's a raging alcoholic, the kind that mixes his own concoctions out of chemicals and paint thinner if he has to. He's some kind of sex maniac, introduced humping a sand-woman he and some buddies made on the beach. Ha ha, just jokin around, right guys? But then he can't help but run over to the shore and frantically jerk off.
He has a problem with his temper. He gets into fights. The drunkenness and the fights make it hard to keep a job and a girlfriend.
But one day he drunkenly stows away on a yacht where Lancaster Dodd (P.S. Hoffman, THE GETAWAY) is holding court and having a wedding for his daughter. The credits assure us this is unrelated to any real persons or movements, but you'll notice he and his book/group "The Cause" have a few totally coincidental similarities to L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology. Freddie hangs around and witnesses various "processing" and "applications" where Dodd asks questions and instructs people on focus exercises and talks about past life regression and things. Especially in these early scenes these people seem to be speaking a different language, you have no idea what the guy is talking about and he says things that make everybody laugh knowingly but we, and Freddie, have to just nod our heads politely to fit in.
But also Dodd seems to be a charismatic leader, he enjoys a good drink, smiles and says encouraging things that make people feel good. Like, before he goes to bed he announces to everybody "What a day! We fought the day, and we won. We won!"
I think some people might've been expecting a full on nut-punch of Scientology, but that's not this. Like the movie itself it's not 1 or 2, it's B. Dodd is no saint. He can't always control his rage. He's suppressing something that is only talked about ambiguously. He's left behind a string of ex-wives, and his current one Amy Adams is fierce and loyal but in my opinion underappreciated. His own son thinks he's making it up as he goes along. When one of his greatest supporters (Laura Dern – good to see her in a movie again) asks about a part in his second book which seems to contradict what he's told them for years he flips out on her.
On the other hand he's never shown to be a deliberate fraud, he seems to really believe what he's saying. When Freddie beats up or even just throws food at the movement's enemies Dodd gets pissed, lectures him and compares him to an animal eating its own shit. And he seems to really like Freddie, a man with very few likable qualities. When his wife, daughter and son-in-law get paranoid about Freddie's motives Dodd disagrees. A friend pointed out it might be a crush, but I think it might be a genuine friendship. Or a fascination with not being able to control him. He's used to people getting in line behind him, listening to him intently, sitting next to him uncomfortably silent when somebody questions their beliefs and he has to call them a "pig fuck."
My favorite part of the movie is when the Chicago police show up with an arrest warrant for Dodd. It shows a funny contrast between the two main characters and how they channel their anger. Dodd goes into grandiose prick mode, throwing around words like "silly" and "farce" and asking things like "What honor do you serve? What code?" Freddie chooses the other route, the one where you start fighting and four cops have to drag you all the way to the station and to your cell as you wiggle around like a fish. Then there's a long, unbroken take of both of their side-by-side cells. Dodd leans casually against his bed, not saying a word or flinching as Freddie screams, bangs his head against his bed, tears off his clothes and crushes his toilet. I'm sorry, Cinerama audience, that I laughed during this scene. I thought it was appropriate laughter, I thought it was deliberately funny, but I think you disagreed.
Freddie is the reverse of Dodd. He's dumb and unfocused and uncontrolled, he can't let go of his memories of an old girlfriend instead of not being able to stick with one wife. He's traveled around and experienced different jobs and cultures, but probly saw most of it blurry or in doubles. He always has to run off 'cause he attacked a guy or accidentally poisoned somebody with his moonshine or something.
Another great scene is the real uncomfortable one where a skeptic publicly confronts Dodd and gets into a big argument with him. I love the long stretch of the guy saying "Excuse me" and Dodd ignoring him. Might be the 21st century version of that kid throwing firecrackers in BOOGIE NIGHTS.
This has less of a story arc than most P.T. Anderson extravaganzas. I saw a couple walk out about 20 minutes in, which seemed ridiculously early to give up on a movie like that, but I guess they wouldn't have liked it anyway. Not sure how they ended up in that theater but I suppose they made the right choice in leaving. I'm not sure they would've shared my view that the faster paced cuts in the section where Freddie has to repeat a couple different exercises endlessly made it seem like a training montage. They probly would've needed a Survivor song.
Obviously I don't believe in Scientology or this fictional Scientologyesque deal, but still you're rooting for it to work on this poor bastard, because something's gotta. It seems to give some kind of discipline and stability to most of these people, but never gets Freddie off the booze or the anger or the boners. Dodd claims it can cure some forms of leukemia, but even combining forces with Amy Adams it can't stop Freddie from chugging his whole flask first thing in the morning. It's probly why Dodd is so hooked on him, and why the end of the movie is intentionally frustrating. All that and he's still left passed out, nuzzling a sand boobie.
The filmatism is great, very quiet, sometimes heightened by an eerie and unique score by Jonny Greenwood. If you're thinking THERE WILL BE BLOOD and 70mm though you should know this is not trying to be an epic. If it is it's epic intimacy: giant heads talking to each other. Alot of it is confined to one house or wherever they're living. It skips around a bit in chronology and some time does pass but most of it is in less than a year I think, since Adams stays pregnant the whole time.
Not surprisingly, the best thing about the movie is the acting of the two leads. Hoffman perfectly embodies this intelligence and arrogance, charisma and fury, this controlled craziness. Phoenix is more of a weirdo, very physical, with a weird hunched over posture. You know how he has that scar above his lip? You try to ignore it when he's playing Johnny Cash, but in this one he seems to emphasize it, talking only from that side of his mouth, looking like Jonah Hex at times. And sometimes like Popeye. He's even a sailor. No pipe, though.
Kevin J. O'Connor has a small part, nothing too memorable but I'm happy for him because he was also in THERE WILL BE BLOOD. He will be the only member of the p.t. anderson players who's also in all the Stephen Sommers movies.
It was filmed in 65mm (the first non-documentary to use it since Branagh's HAMLET in '96) and Seattle's own Cinerama theater is showing it on an actual 70mm film print. It looks great, of course. Having recently seen SAMSARA at the same place though I can finally admit that it's the filming on big ass film that makes the difference, not the projecting. SAMSARA looked at least as good and probly better projected digitally. (That's 4K though which I understand is higher than Imax's digital projectors. If they call it Imax stick to film prints only.)
Like some of the hi def stuff, 70 mm closeups give all kinds of detail on the faces, you see all the pores and bumps and scars. At one point I realized geez, that freckle is bigger than my fist. And in one part I noticed that Joaquin's ear was pierced. That's out of character.
I mean this… I thought it was really, uh, interesting. And I don't mean that as lukewarm praise. But I wouldn't recommend it for everybody. If it bores the shit out of you I get it. I'm not sure I understand specifically what Anderson is going for with this one, I just think he has two great actors playing two interesting characters and bouncing off each other while he slathers them in topnotch filmatism. Alot of people will be disappointed that there aren't any great in-jokes about milkshakes and shit. Or after one of the various jerking off scenes somebody could've yelled "I'm finished!" That would be a real crowdpleaser, you know.
SPOILERS? A buddy of mine asked if I thought the end was supposed to be a dream. I hadn't thought of it that way. Yeah, it's really surreal that he's alone in a movie theater in a small town in the middle of nowhere and is handed a phone with Dodd calling from London. But I just took that to mean that was how impossibly connected the guy was by that point. What was more significant to me about the ending is that Dodd finally tells him where they met before… and it's some past life bullshit. This whole time he's been mentioning it and you keep wondering if there's gonna be some kind of twist or something, how these guys are connected. Nope. In the end he's got nothing to offer. No need to stick around. Back to the sand boobies.
things I learned while researching this review:
* L. Ron Hubbard spent some of his childhood and more of his adulthood living in Bremerton, Washington. He also went to Queen Anne High School in Seattle for a year. More importantly it turns out Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace, went there.
* In 1982 Hubbard composed a soundtrack album to his book Battlefield Earth, called Space Jazz and featuring Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. I kinda want to get this, actually.
* Rex Reed hated THE MASTER but says it "might not even be the worst movie ever made" in comparison to "such hollow, juvenile, superficial trash as" THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (by "the dismally overrated, no-talent Charlie Kaufman")
VERN has a new action-horror novel out called WORM ON A HOOK! He has been reviewing movies since 1999 and is the author of the film criticism books Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal and Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics as well as the crime novel Niketown.
Related shit to check out:
Amy Adams Joaquin Phoenix Kevin J. O'Connor Laura Dern Paul Thomas Anderson Philip Seymour Hoffman
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80 Responses to "The Master"
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The movie theater telephone sequence is a dream… the rest of the movie is not. There's a quick cut after Dodd hangs up that shows Quell waking up in the same theater… plus he tells Dodd later in England he's there because of a dream he had. The cut from the dream in the theater is very subtle and Quell mumbles alot, so its easy to see why this is confusing. I think "The Master" is probably the film of the year: Paul Thoms Anderson has made the father-son relationship complex a recurring theme in many of his films, whether subjugated within his multi-storyline narrative ("Magnolia") or tangentially within genre ("Hard Eight", "Boogie Nights"), but "The Master" may be his most pointed and raw effort yet. From the first time stunted, angry seaman Freddy Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and learned doctor Lancaster Dodd (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) meet, the overtures of the father-son relationship are overt and tense in the way Dodd says "alright…" in that fatherly tone of a man siting behind a large desk, patiently accepting his sulking son's presence either good or bad. And from there, "The Master" gels into a sublime series of scenes where father and prodigal son connect, disconnect, argue, love and work through repressed emotions caused by post-war stress. For those that have called "The Master" pointless, I humbly disagree. Not only is it probably one of the most touching examinations of the push-and-pull that separates and joins people, but it reigns as a subtle miracle of the three act structure, revealing everything in small glances and a technical cinematic prowess that feels unmatched in current cinema. I could go on for days about this film….
October 1st, 2012 at 12:39 am
Yeah, this movie can go fuck itself. I guess I lean more towards Vern's idea of reaction #2, which is a shame because, well, most of you guys know how thoughtful and over-analytical I can get about some movies and because I used to be a PT Anderson fan.
I feel like I "got" most everything there is to get about this movie, but I won't expend the energy here diagramming scenes, parallelisms, period piece details, the gulf between Freddy's pugnacity & his fighting ability, the status of Freddy as representative of WWII sailors/veterans, the "drifting" imagery & diction, the comparison between Freddy's "poison" concoction (He runs away from his victim, unsure if dead or alive, leftward across a dirt field.) and Dodd's poisonous nonsense philosophies (Freddy rides a motorcycle away from Dodd, rightward across a desert field.), the connective "Freddy trying & failing & soliciting & failing & having the tide dissolve his second sand girl & then finally getting to have sex with a human female" thread, the inversion of Master as cult leader versus "master" in terms of being an independent man, etc..
I know a thing or 2 about filmatism, and I'm an observant, perceptive, smart guy. I see all this stuff. There's a "there" there, no naked emperor. I appreciate all this stuff. And I wish I hadn't spend money & time on it. I feel like a worse person, a person with an unrecoverable 2 and a half hour hole in his life, after seeing THE MASTER.
Any which way I figure it, no matter how positive I try to be, no matter how much I give others the benefits of my many doubts, I arrive at the conclusion that the director is laughing at us, insulting us, & deliberately putting onscreen as much ugliness & incompetence & simple-mindedness as he thinks he can get away with (and all, as Vern sorta mentions, in a not-entertaining manner).
And a lot of the reviews are painful to read, with people desperate to grasp something to praise. Dude made an ugly movie full of ugly, stupid characters who have ugly, stupid notions of entertainment & a taste for horrid fermented beverages. Describing it that way kind of reminds me of CALVAIRE more than any other movie. That's not a good thing. I'm certainly not going to compare THE MASTER to any good movie I can recall. Maybe HAPPINESS, but without the jokes or the edgy discomforting material. Not interested in this kool-aid.
Also Amy Adams is hideous in this movie. What a fucking anti-accomplishment.
TELF
Holy shit. First two responses couldn't have been more sincere and well thought out examples of Vern's potential-audience-reaction juxtaposition. Nice work boys.
I enjoyed the climatic fight scene on the roof. Jet really paid back that asshole who beat up Uncle Tak.
Well, I find this all kind of depressing. Not because I'm a huge fan of PTA, but because I keep trying to be but never quite managed it. I've dutifully sat down and viewed all of his movies in an honest attempt entertain myself but somehow each and every one of his movies just failed to click with me. I can't even articulate why that is and it's always bothered me, his movies all have the look/smell/taste of greatness – I should be into this shit! So you'd think I'd be happy that some people seem to be agreeing with me this time out, but I'm not. I'd always assumed that I was missing something and if I kept trying maybe I'd grow to love the works of Paul T Anderson but It's starting to look like that ain't gonna happen, which is a shame.
Captain Aktion
Space Jazz is amazing.
Sternshein
If you hate The Master you should cleanse your pallet with a viewing of Miami Connection. I don't know. I think hatred of The Master seems completely unwarranted.
Mr. Majestyk
I just can't see myself getting much out of a movie where somebody smashes a toilet and I'm not allowed to laugh at it.
Inspector Li
You can laugh. The filmmaking is mucho serioso and stately, only once I sank into the movie, there were a few points where I laughed. Alone, but whatever – if the walkouts didn't take me out of the movie, people can stand me chuckling. Maybe people get stony because the movie takes work; you rarely know where it's going even on a scene-to-scene basis, so you've got to absorb the straight-faced weirdness and put the story together on the run (or on the walk – it ain't fast-paced.) It's like a puzzle; maybe even designed to throw you off-balance like one of the processing sessions. Yeah, I liked this a lot – more than most/all of PT Anderson's other stuff.
Wound up in a 4k screening of this, which really did look remarkable. Which might have made some of the difference for me – I was really drawn into the movie just on a visual level.
Dan Prestwich
One thing I suspect is throwing people off about this movie is they are expecting some sort of biography/takedown of Scientology, but then it turns out to really be more about an unpleasant weirdo and his bizarre, intense relationship with a cult leader. Personally, I loved it, definitely one of my favorites from this year. I saw it over a week ago and it's stuck with me, different scenes and images and ideas keep rolling around in my mind.
Mr M:
Recently I believe you hooked up a groom-to-be with a few copies of MCBAIN to give to his groomsmen. I was actually the best man at that wedding. Thanks and I am looking forward to watching it.
FWIW, I found THE MASTER to be frequently very funny, mostly due to Dodd's constant pomposity and Freddy's inappropriate reactions to pretty much everything. That's just me, though. I hear a lot of people say they thought the film was boring or slow, and I just didn't feel that way at all. I found in constantly weird, fascinating and compelling. I guess I was just more into what the movie was doing.
That's awesome, Dan. I'm glad that copy of McBAIN went to a good home.
ShootMcKay
Are we talking about THE McBain ,the movie that is also known as "Christopher Walken-invades-South America-and-shoots-down-fighterjets-with-a-handgun"?
That's the one. It's so good, I kind of want to get married just so I can give it out to my groomsmen.
Okay, wow, sounds like I need to watch MCBAIN ASAP. The groom also got me an amazing, 18-year-old bottle of scotch, yet I'd say I'm equally excited about both gifts.
Yeah, Dan, I guarantee you'll get a kick out of it. Walken gets into a knife fight with Bolo's non-union Vietnamese replacement in a bamboo thunderdome in the first five minutes, so you'll know you're in good hands right off the bat.
You simply can´t go wrong with a Glickenhaus-movie. Paul Thomas Anderson however, you can.
Filmmakers just don't strive for excellence the way they used to.
I highly recommend BLUE JEAN COP for any motherfuckers out there. New York really looks like a gritty shitty cesspool in that one. Not exactly touristfriendly, but definitely action-cinema friendly
The Original... Paul
"Magnolia" is one of my all-time favorite movies, but I'm honestly not sure which way I'd go on "The Master". If only there were some way to find out if you'd like a movie or not, before you actually went and, y'know, saw it.
I know one thing though: "Dredd" has finally put an end to the two-month-long depress-a-thon that I've had. I'm not in any great hurry to go back there. Even for the great P S Hoffman.
Amazing Larry
October 1st, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Based on the collective enthusiasm 'round here, I just ordered a used DVD copy of McBain. That's one thing I've learned over the years about obscure Christopher Walken movies: they're usually either hidden gems or utterly inert. McBain sounds like it's the tits.
I gave up on PT Anderson quite some time ago. Boogie Nights— fuckin' loved it. Absolutely kinetic filmmmaking. Doubled back and watched Hard Eight on VHS, and was again impressed. But since then… it always seems like he's panning for gold where there's none to be found. Plus any director who thought he could mold Adam Sandler into a serious actor has to be at least a partial nutter.
Having not seen THE MASTER, I can only assume that its message, conveyed in intimate closeups and subtle gestures, is "Y'all seriously need to watch McBAIN."
Important update: I've liked all of P.T. Anderson's movies, but PUNCH DRUNK LOVE is the only one I ever feel like rewatching. It's trippy and funny and sweet and isn't 17 million hours long. I approve.
Darth Brooks
October 1st, 2012 at 2:05 pm
The son said it himself (and it's about this movie): "He's making it up as he goes along."
The performances are great, but there is less than nothing to the story.
Amazing Larry -You did the right thing.I´m not sure I would recommend it solely on Walken. The movie was pretty light on weird Walken-esque theatricalities if I remember correctly. But it is an awesome fucking action-movie nonetheless.
"but there is less than nothing to the story."
Darth Brooks – You make this sound like DREDD.
"You simply can´t go wrong with a Glickenhaus-movie. "
Unless your name is Jackie Chan.
But yes, applause to SHAKEDOWN.
Scientology is one of those fascinating as hell train wrecks that just keeps on giving, whether its Hubbard's ridiculous story of pulp sci-fi writer into cult leader thousands of poor bastards look up to or the recent fiascos for the Church or their concentration camp* for members in the outs, their theology, chiseling every Hubbard writing/lecture into gold plates and locked into a steel vault that can survive a nuclear blast, Operation Snow White, etc.
*=Ah yes "The Hole" where punished members reportedly have to march in endless circles around a palm tree for hours daily, regardless of weather. (Or if you're wheelchair handicapped.) Really sounds like something from RIKI-OH.
RRA – speaking of scientology have you seen this site created by those damn geniuses at Rockstar:
http://www.epsilonprogram.com/
I found this fascinating piece after THE MASTER premiered, where a former Church of Scientology executive (enforcer really) reviewed the movie.
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/a-scientologists-take-on-the-master/
RBatty024
Anderson's a bit hit or miss for me as well. I honestly just can't stand Magnolia, despite some fine moments. The film as a whole just doesn't work for me, and I think there are some much better "we are all connected" films out there. Boogie Nights is pretty great. I also liked the Adam Sandler one. But I appreciated the look of There Will Be Blood more than I actually enjoyed the film. Although, maybe I need to revisit that one. Sometimes I feel like he has trouble drawing compelling characters. A lot of people compared There Will Be Blood to Citizen Kane, but where Charles Foster Kane was a fascinating character throughout the film, Daniel Plainview didn't really work for me.
Vern mentioned SPACE JAZZ, I found this at Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3B5yH5sJo
According to wikipedia, Hubbard also produced this cheese-monstrosity that somehow poor Edgar Winter was corraled into performing. (So cheesy, it would turn Wisconsin lactose intolerant.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVtjiP0-LU&feature=relmfu
I was one of those people that was expecting a nut-punch of Scientology, because Scientology deserves every nut punch it can get, but when I read The Master really wasn't that, my interest waned, I'll still probably check it out on blu ray though
let it be known that I think Magnolia is a great damn movie though
p.s. Joaquin Phoenix's character reminds me of my late grandpa, who was also a surly WW2 sailor that had a drinking problem (and here's an interesting fact, he was there personally when they nuked the bikini atoll islands)
I hope we don't have to wait another half a decade for the next PTA joint though
nabroleon dynamite
I agree with Amazing Larry. Hard Eight and Boogie Nights are the shit and each movie afterwards got less and less enjoyable.
When The Master comes to the almighty Redbox I'll fuck with it…
The Giggler
Despite what the others in your theatre felt, The Master is quite funny. (P.T. Anderson is a lot of things, but humorless isn't one of 'em).
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:25 am
they killed The Giggler maaaaan…
on the topic of Magnolia, to be fair it's been a long time since I've seen it and it was the very first "everything is connected" movie I ever saw and the whole idea was mind blowing at time since it was new, but I have no idea whether the movie holds up today or not though
October 2nd, 2012 at 5:27 am
Magnolia really divides people. I have a lot of friends whom I normally agree with about movies who will defend that film, but for whatever reason it doesn't really resonate with me. It has a great opening sequence and an interesting turn by Tom Cruise (in fact, all the actors are pretty good). I just remember thinking that they were using that everyone is connected theme as an emotional cop out.
I was really blown away the first time I saw MAGNOLIA but I don't think time has been kind to it. It's a movie absolutely packed with great scenes, great acting, great filmmaking, but what does it all add up to? The theme of "Everything is connected" is superficially intriguing but not really all that interesting when you stop and think about it. It's like how Edgar Allen Poe described chess: "What is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound." Yeah, everybody in the movie has some connection to everybody else, but so? What good does it do them? Are any of these connections particularly meaningful? So that guy's dad produced the game show that guy was on 30 years ago. And I'm supposed to get what out of that exactly? You can Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon everybody on the fucking planet if you want, it doesn't mean you and Nelson Mandela have a real powerful spiritual connection. The whole theme of the movie is like some stoners watching the Discovery Channel and realizing that all matter comes from the Big Bang: a mind-blowing revelation that isn't particularly useful or descriptive of life as we human beings actually know it.
The frogs are still pretty cool, though.
Tuukka
Magnolia is a story about people who can't see the forest for all the trees. They are all miserable, when they don't really need to be. They could be happier, but they don't see how, even when it's painfully obvious. In other words, they are very similar to a lot of people we all know.
The ending is a big wake-up call to all of them. Look out: There is a big, magical world out there. Anything can happen. Anything is possible. So stop dwelling in your own misery.
One of my favorite movies.
I agree with everything you said except for the part where you said "MAGNOLIA is a story." I don't think it is. I think it's a bunch of character vignettes juxtaposed together to create the illusion of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. A story has a beginning, middle, and end. It builds to a resolution of some kind, etc. Each of MAGNOLIA's individual subplots might fit that definition, but the movie itself doesn't. A singalong montage does not a climax make.
I'll do you one better and say that I actually dislike/disagree with MAGNOLIA's "everything is connected" worldview. That's a wonderfully romantic conceit and a sometimes enjoyable fantasy and all, but it's also a bunch of phoney baloney horseshit. Based on my experiences, the world tends to be random and disorganized and inherently meaningless, except in whatever order and meaning we project on to it. I've never experienced a moment of emotional synchronicity with a group of random strangers, and I suspect I never will.
It's one of the things I love about Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS, which is basically like MAGNOLIA if you took all that crap out of it. It's a bunch of characters who interact with each other and effect each others' lives in important ways… only none of them have the perspective to realize any of this, have no idea who they've effected or who has effected them, and don't necessarily come out of it with some great spiritual catharsis. It posits an idea that I kinda like, which is: maybe we're all connected, but so what?
As Stu would say, all this MAGNOLIA talk is why we have a forum.
As for THE MASTER, PTA missed a marketing opportunity by not advertizing this with the Masters golf tournament. Confuse those old white men!
also if THE MASTER, criticized by some as awards bait, does well and score truckloads of awards and Oscar nominations….does this mean it's a Master Baiter?
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:51 pm
"…create the illusion of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts." for me pretty much sums up PTA's entire output. Magnolia was a strange experience since it really seemed as though I should have been feeling SOMETHING (the way the score crescendoed every five minutes tipped me off) but I just didn't give a shit. This is unusual since I'm usually a giant pussy that gets all teary-eyed at the slightest provocation – I cried when Data's daughter died on Star Trek and they were both robots. And don't even get me started on UP, just thinking about that movie puts a lump in my throat.
Anderson is undoubtedly a very smart guy, but I get the impression that he really only understands people on an intellectual level. His characters all seem like really good simulations of people rather than actual people. They would fail the Voight-Kampff, in my opinion.
October 2nd, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Mode7,
It's funny you say that, because I actually see Anderson as maybe overly emotional view of human beings, as opposed to an intellectual one. Like, to the point where I've wondered if he's bi-polar. Every one of his films since after BOOGIE NIGHTS seems to wildly vacillate between emotional extremes. Everything is either a manic high or soul-crushing low. One of the things that turns me off about MAGNOLIA (which I would say is a film I like overall, at least in terms of technical appreciation) is that I watch those characters and I don't relate to them because I just don't have extreme emotions all the time like those people do.
I think in a way we actually kind of agree, except that my take on it is that he puts overly emotional people up there on the screen because that's how he sees other human beings, not because that's who he actually is. I get the feeling there is very little of PTA in the characters he writes, just the end result of keen observation and a firm grasp of psychology. At a certain point an artist has to empathize with the characters they create and I think this is where PTA falls short – he just hasn't got it in him.
M. Casey
I pretty much love PT Anderson, ever since seeing BOOGIE NIGHTS fourteen years ago or whatever it was. Anyone whose worst movie is MAGNOLIA is doing a pretty good job I'd say.
But this is his worst movie now. The acting's great, it's shot great, but either the script was a mess or there's 25 minutes of cut footage that I'd like to see sometime.
So Freddie's a piece of shit, basically, but although we see him wise up and give up on the cult, he'd never hit any particular low beforehand (at least no worse than his time in the service) that would give us in the audience any sort of satisfaction. Is Freddie finally woken up by that ridiculous "Pigeon Post" speech? If so the punch doesn't really land. And what's with the "unpublished work?" The Amy Adams sink handjob that doesn't really address much that's shown in the film? What's the purpose of the daughter?
So, all right, I'm willing to hear other opinions but this was a beautifully filmed stinker. It's okay, all the great directors have one now and then, but hopefully it will light a fire under PTA's ass to direct something again before 2017.
Also, was that next-to-last scene meant to evoke the ending of THE LONG GOODBYE?
Yeah, there's a few interesting-looking films coming out, both in multiplexes ("Looper") and in the art film world, so I'm gonna give "The Master" a miss. Sorry.
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:58 am
Keep us updated, Paul.
October 3rd, 2012 at 1:28 am
I do gotta admit that PTA still has pull with me. I'm gonna go see his goddamn new movies in the theatre no matter what, due to my love of his early works and due to, you know, being part of the culture and, most importantly, due to not being Paul.
Even if you're not a fan, I think you'd concede there's at least one moment in each of his films that tries damn hard, sometimes with too much build-up & meandering around it, to take your breath away, earning your attention &, in most cases, your ticket money —
the moment we have to decide with Don Cheadle whether to take the money after the serendipitous tragedy of the failed hold-up in BOOGIE NIGHTS,
Ricky Jay narrating the freaky intro in MAGNOLIA,
TJ Mackey's collision with reality & his own misogyny in MAGNOLIA,
or Donnie Fisher's "I have love to give" confessions,
Adam Sandler with a motherfucking tire iron in PDL,
maybe "I drink your milkshake" in TWBB (very overrated movie),
can't remember HARD 8 well enough at the moment to list one from that movie,
and the "processing" confrontation in THE MASTER or any scene where PSH is acting his ass off, which is all the scenes, as he's trying to grow a rose in the crack of the barren boring sidewalk that is PTA's latest script.
Jareth Cutestory
Not to be a dick, Paul, but I hated LOOPER. If you go in expecting SURROGATES rather than 12 MONKEYS you might be pleasantly surprised.
"Everything is connected" was a marketing tagline. Does the film ever state that theme such manner? I don't remember. But I don't think a movie should be faulted for it's poster. It's usually the marketing department that comes up with that stuff.
Anyway, every storyline touches common thematic ground. All the characters need a wake-up call, which is delivered in the end. I don't see why the separate storylines would need an stronger connection than that. I think you people are too much concentrating on the marketing aspects of a film.
BTW, I think it's pretty easy to point out the reason a lot of people don't connect wit PTA's films: Almost all of his characters are miserable people. Like, really really miserable. A lot of people have a hard time connecting with miserable movie characters. It's completely different from most movies, where you have a normal character, who just happens to go through miserable circumstances. John McClane goes through a lot of misery, but he is not a miserable person.
In PTA's films the characters are victims of their perception of the world. They are not acutely suffering of misery because of exterior circumstances. They have just been raised bad, without the kind of love that a child should have. They are misguided losers. They are deceiving themselves, either knowingly, or unknowingly. They are angry at others, and especially angry at themselves. Some of these characters might even seem prideful and self-satisfied, like Daniel Plainview, but in reality they hate themselves.
I've known a lot of people like that in my life. The world is full of people like that. So it's relatable to me. PTA has a lot of affection towards seriously flawed characters. A lot of audience members don't have that affection.
Magnolia is one of the handful of movies that have ever made me cry. PTA is one of the greatest filmmakers I have ever seen. And I don't think he will ever enjoy mainstream success, because he loves the kind of characters that most people hate.
jeremy09
Magnolia has great moments, but it's not a great movie. It's too fuckin' self-indulgent, too aware of it's SUPER-IMPORTANT MESSAGES, too much everything after awhile. It's three hours of people losing their shit, with a throbbing tense soundtrack so prominent that Hans Zimmer would tell PTA to tone it down a notch. The Master is just the inevitable conclusion of PTA's race to godhood. It's a perfectly-directed film at the expense of being a good movie.
The cult of PTA believe him to be God. Unfortunately, one of the members of that cult is Paul Thomas Anderson himself.
I actually am glad you'll keep watching, Mouth. PTA is one of a handful of directors that I feel oddly, and stupidly, protective of. It's hard to defend this script but I just want to be like, "come on guys, it wasn't that bad, look at the pretty pictures, boy Joaquin Phoenix sure played an excellent dirtbag, it might not have been good but at least it wasn't boring," etc…
["It's a masterpiece, if you don't get it you're dumb, why don't you go see some mainstream movie like whatever that one movie is called, the one that you like, I don't know the name because I don't watch that kind of crap or know what it is."]
I simply found it a bore. There wasn't enough narrative in this tale to guarantee a running time of two hours and 30 minutes.
And frankly, I find it disgusting that you set out to insult anyone who might disagree with your opinion of this film by calling them "dumb" at the beginning of your article.
Check out ole "Reading Comprehension Rosie." Rosie the Ripper.
Vern was clearly pre-addressing the presumed expectations of most "reviews & comments," as he stated in the opening:
He's mentioned on many previous occasions that he wades into the cesspool underlining IMDB, aintitcool, etc., and so he and everyone here are aware of the likelihood of the existence of his #1/#2 dichotomy of reactions to THE MASTER. It has nothing to do with insulting those who would disagree; it's merely an observant summation of the current sociological pattern of internet movie talkbackers vis-à-vis an obviously polarizing major film.
You mean we've gotta read every single little word now before we're allowed to become outraged? Can't I just pick and choose the ones I like?
How dare Mr. Majestyk call all of us "little" and "outraged"!
Now I'm not sure if I'm the dense one, and Rosie was being facetious. Very dryly facetious.
So I shouldn't be so harsh. Either way, she has a right to her opinion, especially since she agrees with me on how boring THE MASTER is.
Chopper Sullivan
I finally got around to seeing this, and I'm not sure what the difference is between this and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, why that one gets the thumbs up and this gets some dirty looks. They're both long, meandering, exceptionally filmed and performed character pieces without any obvious plot or any kind of satisfying resolution. I like both quite a bit, and I doubt I'll watch either one again.
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February 2nd, 2014 at 11:33 am
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God dammit!
Knox Harrington
What? Who died? I only get a "Page Unavailable" when I click on the link.
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Found in his apartment. Apparent O.D.
Man, the Oscar montage is gonna be a total fuckin' bummer this year.
February 2nd, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Well this ruined my Super Sunday.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is fucking dead? Jesus tap dancing Christ
He fought against the day, and he… did not win today.
I just watched Synecdoche, New York this afternoon. It ends with him saying he must die. Fuck.
Shoot McKay
Sweet Zombie-Jesus!This was unexpected and certainly most unwelcome news. Another one bites the dust…
I really did like him a lot, I remember a Conan interview with him once about a decade ago that was hilarious
His character in BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOURE DEAD is gonna draw some contrasts in light of this.
CrustaceanLove
Even in the most minor roles the guy would walk in, throw the movie over his shoulder and walk off with it. And when given enough room to really shine, well, see the above review. Holy shit, this sucks. R.I.P.
I thought his Freddy Lounds was one of the few, if not the only improvement RED DRAGON had over MANHUNTER. I watched THE MASTER recently and while it had it's issues as far as I was concerned, none of them revolved around what he and Phoenix were doing. He did some of his best work with Paul Thomas Anderson, and it's utterly sad that relationship ended here.
February 4th, 2014 at 10:37 am
PSH's character Scotty J is legend. I bought THE MASTER on blu ray about a week or two ago but haven't gotten around to it. And now it sits by my TV like a fucking ghost. It's like the Mitch Hedberg album DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOSH in that, I've got it and I've had it for awhile, but I never listened to it, because if I don't, then there is always that one little bit of the performer left to discover. Or, more appropriately, Gandolfini's ENOUGH SAID and his turn in KILLING THEM SOFTLY. I know I'll get around to all of it, but it's going to be a bit of a bummer, and even more so if I really enjoy them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQkdprJso0&feature=youtu.be
I found this conversation with Philip and philosopher Simon Critchley on another site and am feeling compelled to share it wherever I can. It's very prescient now, and is probably the best explanation of an actor's motivations that I've seen in awhile. All this "dark last days" bullshit being shoveled to us by ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT and TMZ is made utterly irrelevant here, because you could tell he was someone so still utterly engaged with what he was doing. As well as speaking fondly of the roles in the PTA movies and other things like HAPPINESS and SYNEDOCHE, NEW YORK.
And I really appreciate THE MASTER much more, for how he interpreted the primary relationship of the film. It is sitting there the whole time staring at you in the face, but done in such a way that could easily sidetrack anyone. I'm no exception, but I totally and utterly get it now.
renfield
https://youtu.be/UuXGDFw8qDQ
I'm not sure it's possible to cram more thoroughly dull and tired elements into a single plot synopsis than the one attached to that trailer. A rich silverfox who's a genius in his field but just needs to lighten up? Check. Set among British royalty? Behind the scenes of the fashion industry? Check. Self-consciously "important" period trappings? Check. Life reinvigorated by a much, much (much) younger woman? Check. Then you watch the actual trailer and it's like a parody of a screenwriter's midlife crisis. Good God. This could be a late 90s Hugh Grant movie, but golly aren't those insert shots filmed sumptuously! That's how you know it's art. Did you see that guy's sock? They had 14 separate meetings to decide what shade of puce most symbolized that character's ennui. Give it all the Oscars!
At this point it's safe to say P.T. Anderson and I have parted ways permanently. I wish him luck with his middlebrow wankery.
Fuck, I forgot he directed INHERENT VICE. I kind of liked that one. Okay, you get one more chance, P.T. Don't fuck it up.
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October 23rd, 2017 at 10:29 am
B.. But he films on actual film like a true artist does not on digital like some commoner!
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This migration has been an important factor in the development of numerous new inter-company agreements, or "deals," between traditional insurance companies and mid-market specialists, as these companies try to find new ways to secure new premium growth and increased profitability. Some of these inter-company arrangements end up becoming traditional merger and acquisition deals, but many others are marketing partnerships or consultancy arrangements of one kind or another.
These kinds of arrangements, though not new, do seem to be picking up a lot of momentum. The increasing interest in these inter-company deals has led to the emergence of many traditional insurance companies swimming in new waters, and these ventures into a new way of doing business are always easier when they're aided by personal relationships and personal networks.
It's not news that industry organizations and conferences help foster these kinds of relationships and networks. For me and my firm, and for many others like us, the Inter-Company Marketing Group (ICMG) is one such organization. As the name suggests, their reason for being is to foster relationships that lead to inter-company marketing arrangements, and their annual meeting is one of the best for the purposes of networking.
If you're unfamiliar with the way inter-company deals might work, there are actually many, many ways that a deal can develop — as many ways as there are companies with different business approaches. Likewise, there can be many reasons why a specific deal might develop in the first place. In general, these inter-company deals happen when Company A has a product or market or distribution system in place, as does Company B, and the people at the two companies see the value in putting their heads and resources together to complete a marketing agreement that will benefit both firms.
These new inter-company collaborations are typically forged by a chief executive officer or a chief marketing officer who is seeking to expand the opportunities available to his or her known brand. For example, the chief marketing officer may have a very strong critical illness product, but his or her company has no annuities for the firm's producers to sell. If he or she develops a relationship with another marketing officer and learns that the second company has a great series of annuities and a field force that would love to have a solid critical illness policy to sell, the value of a marketing partnership between the two becomes clear.
But it takes time to learn what companies have to offer and what they're looking for, and it takes time to build the kind of trusted relationships that enable all the players involved to feel comfortable entering into an inter-company agreement.
I personally have been involved in a full spectrum of these kinds of arrangements over the years, in association with the largest of institutions to mid-sized family owned businesses. One of our more successful inter-company deals was with a major United States insurer that was looking to supplement its worksite business with direct sales. Within 12 months, we added 20 percent to their in-force premium and achieved response rates from existing policyholders of somewhere in the range of 5 percent to 40 percent, depending upon the type of product offered.
Admittedly, that was one of our bigger successes. On a smaller scale, in another of our inter-company relationships, a mid-western company with a handful of state approvals and an unusual product was seeking a good method to upgrade coverages. This company, like ours, was and is still a regular attendee at the ICMG annual meeting, and we originally met them at that conference. We got to know one another — and our mutual strengths — and we have since created a program that is doubling the face amount owned on 30 percent of the company's policyholders.
Like all business decisions, inter-company deals can bring potential problems as well. For my firm that I recently retired from, there are always two primary concerns when we consider entering into an inter-company marketing arrangement — channel conflict and information technology (IT) resources. Both concerns are usually surmountable, but institutions have to open their eyes and see the potential of the new business before they will commit.
Sadly, many companies hide behind these kinds of walls, doing themselves a great injustice by limiting their own potential for growth. Often, for many companies, an attitude that looks down upon products or marketing ideas that are "Not Invented Here" can be a major stumbling block to growth and new levels of success.
For companies that do decide to enter into these kinds of inter-company marketing arrangements, everyone involved can benefit. These kinds of arrangements can bring in new premium and profit for the insurer, new leads and commissions for the intermediaries, and much-needed improvements in coverage for consumers. Almost everyone in the insurance business recognizes the severe underinsurance problem among their policyholders and the general population. The kind of marketing partnerships our company and others have made with one another have gone a long way to help resolve this issue to the satisfaction of all — in particular to the benefit of the consumer.
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12 September 2019 | London
Herbert Smith Freehills partner May Tai has been included in the global HERoes 100 Female Executives list for the first time. Alternative Legal Services (ALT) manager Plaxedes Makura was also recognised for the second consecutive year on the HERoes 50 Female Future Leaders list.
Announced today 12 September in London, the lists recognise female leaders who inspire and drive gender equality within their organisations and professions.
May was appointed Managing Partner of Greater China in 2017 and is a leading arbitration lawyer in Asia. Under her leadership, the firm has introduced agile working arrangements for employees and a groundbreaking parental leave policy in Asia. May also championed the firm becoming a signatory to the Code of Practice against Discrimination in Employment on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation in Hong Kong 2018.
Plaxedes was appointed as the most senior lawyer in the firm's Johannesburg ALT practice when it launched in August 2017. She now runs a team of approximately 20 legal analysts, and deals with work that is cross-border, large-scale and commercially complex. Plaxedes was involved in the establishment of the ALT Johannesburg Diversity Committee and the ALT Johannesburg Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.
The list is now in its third year and comprises three categories - 100 Women Executives, 50 Women Future Leaders and 40 Advocate Executives. These lists recognise women who are leading by example and driving change alongside male advocates who create a more diverse and inclusive business environment for women.
Executive Partner Justin D'Agostino was also named on the HERoes 40 Advocate Executives list for the first time, recognising his role as a personal sponsor and mentor to a number of high-performing women across the firm.
"The landscape has changed a lot since I started my career and I'm pleased that I can help improve workplace equality and inclusion," said May. "There is still a way to go for all, but at Herbert Smith Freehills, we are working to create a workforce that demonstrates to all would-be lawyers and those rising up the ranks that there is no glass ceiling."
"I am delighted to see both May and Plaxedes recognised as leaders and role models for women across our business and the legal profession," said Justin. "I take great pride in the work we are doing at Herbert Smith Freehills to build an ever-growing inclusive culture and their contribution to that has been significant. It is also an honour to have been recognised for my role as an ally, and I encourage my male colleagues to continue to join me in this vital work."


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