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IAteFire, yes, but most directors at 27 do not make their first movie an instant classic and a masterpiece. This is one of the rare movies where everything comes together, a perfect storm of and strike of genius by the director, amazing script, and perfect casting. This very, very rarely happens, and Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't, and probably never will top Boogie Nights.
valgehiir, Boogie Nights wasnt his first feature... he had quite a bit of trouble securing his vision for his debut Hard Eight/Seymour, which is what theyre joking about at the start of the interview
Wahlberg's most riveting performance was in this movie. He didn't say a word, his expression said it all. It's where him and his 2 buddies are at a cokeheads house and Jesse's girl was playing on the guys stereo. Amazing stuff.
That whole sequence was a case study in film making. The moment the shot goes inside, and Sister Christian starts... it's like the entire movie shifts gears ENTIRELY and goes into a rabbit hole. It's difficult to describe. It's bizarre to the point you actually feel "high" or somewhat drunk by the time you get halfway through it. Then all the stupor feeling alleviates the moment they get back out the door... and we're back to the "Boogie Nights" feel.
When I first saw that scene my jaw dropped because I couldn’t believe how simply it was put what Dirk was thinking without any words being said. Riveting!
That scene was incredible! As was the whole series of scenes where everyone was falling apart from the limo scene, to the donut shop to the gay bashing scene. All with that ominous chime playing the whole time.
It's not because he regret it, he said that he will never make a movie like that again since he doesn't want his kids to see their dad in that kind of role.
Thomas-Anderson directs Boogie Nights at 27. The Beatles broke up when McCartney was 27. Hendrix dies at 27, having changed the face of rock music forever. Took me until 27 to get my first serious girlfriend. FML.
Luv his statement about film school and how they shame you from writing "Terminator 2".........like duh, we're all inspired by great movies including T2
A strong script can make anyone a star I grew up in that time frame and this movie scarred me not for me personally but for how lost so many people were in that time frame a brilliant piece of writing not a pleasant movie but an accurate movie
Can't believe he is the same person who made "There will be Blood". Literally one of the best movie of 21st Century+ Once in a lifetime performance by DDL. ❤
I love how he talks and does this interview like he's a seasoned vet, and not the new sensation who literally had done ONE other movie. Still pretty crazy that he's like 27 or 28 here. "I like to approach my friends and ask them what role would you like to do... I have the power as a director who's done one other movie to give that to them". LOL
It's kinda cute to see Paul gloat about what a great time they had making this and how much actors love his long takes when burt reynolds (r.i.p.) later said he absolutely hated everything about it. Still love him and this masterpiece of a film.
That would've been similir experience to wolf of the wall street. Both movies share tragic rise and fall theme of the Protagonist. And both are extremely hilarious with strong plot.
@@pzez2781 well actually, GoodFellas also directed by Scorsese was a fantastic and tragic rise and fall story only this time focused on gangsters! It’s actually the big influence for Boogie Nights and then for Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
@@andrewburgemeister6684 Ohh I didn't know that, it's been on my watchlist though. Now you mentioned it I need to check it out. Did you watched "Raging Bull". It also shares same theme and is pretty good movie. If you know more movies with this same theme let me know!
@@pzez2781 yes, Raging Bull is a masterclass in filmmaking and method acting from Robert De Niro! Taxi Driver is up there as well as a irreplaceable masterpiece!
I love what he said about actors and how he just let them do their job how THEY want it. He just writtes the characters and they develop them with their own style
I love these old Charlie Rose interviews. So intimate and well done. Charlie got caught up in a very tolerant culture, that clamped down quick. I’m glad he’s back and I’ll bet he’s smarter and better than ever, with a newfound sensibility and sensitivity
This was the only role where Burt Reynolds actually took chances. I mean this was a Deniro/Keitel kind of role but Burt Reynolds got it and it was his best performance. And look at all the actors who went on to become sterling actors. Moore, Hoffman, Cheadle, Reilly, and others who've had solid careers. The story was great you had what were really a bunch of kids who came from nothing, and broke apart primarily from drug abuse who realized all they had was each other and they reunited in the end as a family. The soundtrack was perfect especially in the pool party scenes. And God only knows was the perfect way to end this masterpiece.
Props to Leo for suggesting Mark though, he could see that this movie would be gold, but that he was busy with Titanic and also that the role needed that extra bit.
I dunno if this is a well known fact or not, but PTA stated in an interview with Marc Maron that DFW was his english professor at Emerson college but left soon after; but not before being called by PTA to discuss a paper the young filmaker was writing. An even more interesting connection is that not long after the release of Boogie Nights, DFW writes an article called "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" about his visit to the AVN Awards, an annual ceremony referred to as the Oscars of Porn. In the lengthy article, DFW quite briefly mentions Boogie Nights young up-and-coming director by name and and wonders whether he "will make an appearance." I think these two had a stronger connection or relationship then is let known.
That film teacher should've said, "if you're here to make Terminator: Salvation, Genisys or Dark Fate, please wait for me after class & do not tell any of your loved ones where you're at"
Boogie Nights has a great ensemble cast, Mark, Burt and Julianne are phenomenal, and the others including the late and great PSH, John C Reilly, Don Cheadle et. al were all perfectly cast and turned in great supporting performances to complement the leads.
PTA grew up in the Valley himself knowing about the ins-and-outs, and actually watched a heap of cheesy 70’s skin flicks on 8mm lol. And to think he was only like 7 in ‘77 when the movie starts, yet he nailed the era!
So interested to see the story of a great director (really a great organizational leader of any kind) discuss how the key contributor to their successful project was somebody they initially didn’t want and now can’t believe how they didn’t see it from the start.
To be fair, acting actually IS a pretty brutal job in many ways. It can sound really glamorous, with the constant traveling and making films with seriously movie stars and premieres and such - it’s actually really, really kind of rough. Especially if you’re naturally very shy and hate traveling and then there’s learning copious lines, which for some can be almost impossible. People constantly coming up to you and harassing you, they feel like they know you - it can be flattering but also really scary. You spend hours and hours onset waiting for your shot to be set up and depending on the director you may have to do 10 or maybe even 50 takes. You’re often yelled at for no reason, and the humiliation can just tear you apart inside. Everyone has their own formidable egos, and you have to have a really thick skin in order to not be absolutely crushed. The really kind and compassionate actors can also be pushed around and there’s a really fine line between kindness and confidence. It’s a daily struggle - and if you’re a woman, it’s an even more cruel struggle in terms of aging and how crazy it makes you. I loved the craft of acting so much but I just couldn’t handle it. I just had to stop. You have to be tough as nails and put up with an enormous amount of bs. Then there are all the insane temptations of serious drugs and so much destructive stuff that become so available to you. Yeah the money is just silly, and there are some amazing people you get to work with (if you’re lucky enough), but generally speaking, I’d have to agree with the above commenter - it is pretty brutal. Or it sure as hell can be. (This guy seems reminiscent of David Foster Wallace, who was really enamored & influenced by the film world, & directors such as David Lynch. Film is the most magical medium and so important as an art, but often for some much much healthier to enjoy at a distance. This director is absolutely correct about film school - IMO anyway. A total waste of money & it can kill your inspiration. Learn by doing, doing, doing.)
Not to mention, super competitive. There's so many good, well established actors already and then so many new good 'up and coming' actors.. It's too much. I can only imagine getting to be a successful actor and getting to live that lifestyle all day, everyday. I'm sure you get used to all of it at some point. Once it's your World and you live it and breathe it for so long.. You own it. At least you took a shot at it, that's awesome that you got to see it all for yourself and decided it just wasn't worth it in your eyes 👍
Agree completely about school for arts especially today with the internet where you can learn pretty much anything they would teach you in school for free. I have a BFA that I can wipe my ass with if I run out of TP that cost me 30k I will never be able to repay. They get you if you want to go into teaching art like I thought I wanted to. Never need to have a BFA to have success and make money though. Biggest mistake of my life.
His microphone attached, has buckled the material. I know what this is like, because I just went through a half hour interview on our local television here, near my hometown...
His tie looks to be a small checkerboard pattern. High-contrast small black and white gradients are problematic with analog video. It has to do with the chroma/luminance signals interfering with each other, trying to reproduce the imagery. On a tube TV in the old days, it didn't look that bad. Later, especially when off tape (second or third generation), when digitized it really freaks out the analog-digital converter trying to make the pixels. So you get this moving moire effect. You'll see this all the time when there are small black n white patterns in old video.
Mark Whalberg has got the "athletic cool guy" down pat in most movies he has starred in. Unfortunately most of those roles were different variations of the same character. Boogie Nights is one of the only movies that saw Mark Whalberg surrender himself to a well written character that allowed him to show a vulnerable side that hasn't been highlighted since... in my opinion, his best. The Fighter is a close second, in "roles they were born to play"... but I still have to give Boogie Nights the edge, just because it is the part that seems the furthest from mark's actual personality. Which in turn further highlights and informs his work on this classic film.
I didn't know Paul did "Boogie Nights"! I just got onto screenplay writing and now I know the directors and am paying attention to film making. I want to write a few cameos for someone like Daniel Day-Lewis. He gets too absorbed and it hurts his head to work like that for a long time. I'll give him a little part and he can tell a short story and go home to the shoes or whatever Daniel is into. Unless he likes it so much that he won't do a small role. This would be a very good use of Daniel which will not annoy him for the length of the film is 1 month and done. Would he do that? I have something in mind. I worked on many historical thesis after college. My graduate work went very deep on several subjects. American Expansionism, Vietnam War and the CIA Assassination program - The Phoenix Program, Psychoanalysis in Literature and Freud's "Interpretation of dreams" and "The Schreber Case". I want to use Daniel to tell a part of the story in Vietnam. The commanders who really cared in Vietnam. The people who really believed that inside every Vietnamese, there was an American trying to emerge. This kind of talk from back then. That we were there fighting communism. Commander of 1st Infantry Division US military commander Lt. General Jonathan O. Seaman. I'm going to shoot My Lai. I'll use resources from my scholarship to make the film. It goes all the way to 1975 and then the mafia died in Palermo, Italy. In 1967, Seaman returned stateside and assumed command of First United States Army at Fort Meade, Maryland. Seaman was the deciding official in cases of 13 officers involved in the failure to investigate or cover up the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. And a new commander took over after the My Lai Massacre. 16 March 1967. The Phoenix Program was a blaze and so was Vietnam for the next 5 years they fought tooth and nail in every situation. It got more and more violent until 1972 when Nixon passed the new drug code and CIA assets started getting picked up for drug trafficking. Some Italian mafia men got a deal with the FBI to come to America and leave the Mafia behind forever in 1981. They were trafficking in heroin during the whole Vietnam War. They set it up in the 50's. After the war French Corsicans met about the Heroin trade it was time to start again because the war was over. It wasn't until they had a war in Palermo that the mafia in Italy came to America. There was only 2 left and they procreated. Now there is 4 brothers with kids. Everyone else is dead from the war. They are completely out of that business and as American as apple pie. My fraternity brother's family was there at the beginning of what we call mafia. At the very beginning. I have not interviewed this family yet because it is a very touchy thing me bringing out one of the biggest crimes in history. I have a lot of information. They were the mafia and now they are normal every day people and don't associate with gangsters at all. But they have all the characteristics of Italian Mafia. They live by Omerta. Looking at another man's wife is still a rule. If you have an affair they look at you like they want to kill you. You are a scumbag if you act like one. It is still Omerta with them. A very young Paul Thomas Anderson. I am "informed" by Paul. Thanks Charlie. 😊
and Leo has not appeared in any PTA movies to date. Leo went for super stardom role instead of for me a top 10 movie of all time. Boogie Nights. And Mark W was brilliant in the role.. the whole cast were on point.
Don’t get me wrong, Leo is fantastic himself and actually really selects his roles and connects with great directional talent, but I don’t know if Dirk would have been a fit for him. Mark was great though, and it was for the best he did this and Leo shot to stardom and eventual acclaim from ‘Titanic’.
@@andrewburgemeister6684 Leo is too polished and - sorry - small for this role. Mark was perfect because he can play really doofy and innocent and he can play really mean and wild. Plus he just has the look. I believe he's this Eddie kid from Torrance. The casting is just spectacular, even Heather Graham, not a great actress, was perfect for Rollergirl
@@cpellett0821 yeah, I have to sorta agree. Mark was the perfect choice for Eddie playing a naive California kid sucked into the dark world of the 1970’s porn industry. And I agree about Heather Graham as well, all of my friends said they sorta had a crush on Rollergirl haha
I think it would've been a mistake. Titanic is Titanic, and it basically gave DiCaprio free rein for the rest of his career, and then he got to do Boogie Nights several times anyway but with the OG, Scorsese.
@Ari Acevedo Burt Reynolds stated in his autobiography that he wasn’t comfortable with the subject matter in the film and even asked his family and friends not to watch “Boogie Nights”.
