Awesome fucking topic. So I was browsing on the guest list and saw this. I’m not going to read the topic so if someone already mentioned this, you can just go to hell. So one thing besides both of them quitting school (College/High school) and having been brought up by the VCR era they also share similar mannerisms in the way they gesture their hands and speak with such fervor whenever they are discussing their favorite films and inspirations. One thing about PT Anderson is that he doesn’t really like exploitation, I mean yes he loves porno movies, but he’s not a genre filmmaker, yet his artisitc vision as a director and his writing really make him one of the best filmmakers out there, I love PTA’s films almost as much as I love QTs and it’s weird how they’re sort of like from the same generation, I know QT is a little older, but they kind of have that same background. I’m not going to go into all of it, cuz no one is probably reading this.
Anywho I remember PTA was telling this cool story, QT invited him over to see Reservoir Dogs, and RD had been banged down into 16mm scope, and they saw the film that way! I remeber hearing this from an interview and PTA said it sort of felt like a film student had redone Dogs. And by the way for those of you who wonder why it was raining frogs in Magnolia: here it is. If PTA had a larger budget it would have rained actual cats and dogs. That is all. Good Night and Good Luck.
