{"id":5032,"date":"2014-10-22T07:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2014-10-22T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:22:05","slug":"i-just-had-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5032","title":{"rendered":"i just had a thought&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When PT Anderson was starting to work on the movie of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4994\">Inherent Vice<\/a><\/em>, the first thing he did, based on what I&#8217;ve read, was to turn the novel into a screenplay &#8212; the whole thing &#8212; because that&#8217;s the form he&#8217;s used to working in. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s based on.<\/p>\n<p>But I imagine it&#8217;s possible that Anderson&#8217;s devotion to the text itself might not have precluded some additional research. One obvious place to do such research would have been the <a href=\"http:\/\/inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Pynchon wiki<\/a>, where there is page-by-page (and sometimes line-by-line) commentary on the book. <\/p>\n<p>A bunch of which was provided by me. <\/p>\n<p>So, it is actually possible that the upcoming movie <em>Inherent Vice<\/em> will be, in some tiny way, influenced by my thoughts on the book. <\/p>\n<p>Wow. <\/p>\n<p>Some days, this World Wide Web thing is pretty cool. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5032&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5032&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When PT Anderson was starting to work on the movie of Inherent Vice, the first thing he did, based on what I&#8217;ve read, was to turn the novel into a screenplay &#8212; the whole thing &#8212; because that&#8217;s the form he&#8217;s used to working in. It&#8217;s obvious even from the trailer that the film will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}