When PT Anderson was starting to work on the movie of Inherent Vice, the first thing he did, based on what I’ve read, was to turn the novel into a screenplay — the whole thing — because that’s the form he’s used to working in.

It’s obvious even from the trailer that the film will be a very tight adaptation of the novel. As I said, for pretty much every frame of the trailer I know exactly which scene it’s based on.

But I imagine it’s possible that Anderson’s devotion to the text itself might not have precluded some additional research. One obvious place to do such research would have been the Pynchon wiki, where there is page-by-page (and sometimes line-by-line) commentary on the book.

A bunch of which was provided by me.

So, it is actually possible that the upcoming movie Inherent Vice will be, in some tiny way, influenced by my thoughts on the book.

Wow.

Some days, this World Wide Web thing is pretty cool. 🙂