Despite all these firsts,One Battle After Anothermarks Anderson’s second adaptation of aThomas Pynchonnovel.
The stoner comedy/noir doesnt garner as much praise as Andersons other films.
If we look atVinelands story, we may see a strong link between the two.
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Don’t cry in front of the cowboys.
Pynchon isnt afraid to expose hippiedom’s flaws, but he frames the movement as a tragedy.
Showing how oppressive government regimes triumphed over those who fought to live freely.
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So many characters succumb to drug addiction or fall in with the wrong crowd and end up murdered.
ThoughInherent ViceprecedesVineland, the novel was released almost twenty years afterVinelands publication.
SoViceacted more as a prequel, following the events that set the stage for Wheeler’s journey.
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Inherent Vicefailed to strike a chord with audiences to the same degree as Andersons other films.
This is partly due to the meandering nature of the story and slow pacing.
One Battle After Anothercomes to theaters on September 26.
Based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Inherent Vice is a noir-crime film that puts viewers in the perspective of private eye Doc Sportello during the 1960s, who fully embraces the hippie lifestyle while trying to do his job. When his former girlfriend and her new billionaire boyfriend go missing, Doc immerses himself in the depths of Los Angeles’s crime-laden underworld to solve the cases.
