@@shen-long9082 That was uncalled for - then again this is the RU-vid comments section so this kind of behavior is somewhat expected. Nevertheless please get help. When you engage, be kind. When you have something to say, express yourself without tearing people down. It can be done. Good luck.
I remember amidst a PTA interview binge reading on the Late Night IMDB that Conan interviewed him. I HAD to see this footage…but nobody could find it. There were no VHS recordings uploaded or anything. I’m so glad they finally uploaded it!
Maybe it's a cliché i don't know, but I've noticed from my experience that people who are that brilliant don't care much about their external appearence or how they're perceived by others, it's usually the ones who lack in that department of brilliancy who try to compensate for it by acting loud and trying to sound clever and alert so people wouldn't see through their imposture.
Cruise's performance in this is one of his best. It's also one of the last movies he made where he shows real vulnerability. He would never do a role like this now. He's a great actor but chooses not to show it.
Funny how Conan was saying how disposable all his Late Night episodes are compared to film, yet here we are 23 years later watching a random episode and it's on the Internet forever.
I love PTA. Shocked when I found out he's married to Maya Rudolph... It's like seeing those funny weird Animal friendships. Some how it just works and I love it. 😂 Cannot wait for Licorice Pizza.
Licorice Pizza was a record store chain in southern California. I would go to the one on Topanga Cyn. Blvd. The hub bub is that PTA grew up in the Valley and was familiar with the store, hence, the title. He has children with, but has never married Maya Rudolph. As for the movie, coming of age/crush by boy on teen girl movies are overdone. So, this one's success will solely rest on whether that loaded cast blows our skirts up, because that storyline is beat to death and 100% predictable.
Tom Cruise as Frank TJ Mackie, will be forever immortalised in cinematic history for uttering the words “Respect the co€k, tame the cu%t!”. Cruise should have got more than a Golden Globe for his stellar performance; denied an Oscar!
He’s not kidding about movie latex props breaking down… I have a box of the frogs from Magnolia slowly turning to soup. Thankfully I separated the best looking one and put it in a display and that one is holding up better.
@@JPMJPM years and years ago a friend got them from a prop reseller online as a gift. They’re a few different shapes and all dark gray… they’re the texture of those sticky arm toys you slap on the window.
When Boogie Nights came out, I thought Paul Thomas Anderson was actually Paul Thomas, a popular and well known adult film actor and director. I could not believe the good things I was hearing about him as a director of a mainstream film, even if it was about the porn industry. Imagine my surprise when I learned the truth! PTA in no way comes off as a porn actor LOL
@@shen-long9082 While I can only imagine how well versed you are on moot comments, you did read the comment and felt moved to reply to it, typos and bad grammar be damned, so by your own very actions, you have decreased the validity of your point. Thanks for that! I appreciate you taking the time to add your, well, two cents might be a tad high, but we'll give it to you for the lack of a better commonly known phrase...
@@pauljoedominic do you truly believe that tom cruise would have won over heath ledger that year? not to mention rdj was already nominated for that movie...
Just curious here, is PTA getting back at Conan @6:09? He mentions that people who don’t like Magnolia immediately bring up Boogie Nights and “that scene” which is exactly what Conan did. Thoughts?
I think he got it. Conan was being passive aggressive and just dismiss of PTA the whole interview and im glad PTA gave a little back at end. Either way- what an interesting interview. Their chemistry was god aweful. I'd love to hear each of their views on this retrospectively.
Even comparing him to Kubrick is doing a disservice to Kubrick. I don’t think PTA has made a revolutionary movie like 2001 and I don’t think he ever will
@@anom6707 the master, there will be blood and punch drunk love are all masterpieces. He's definitely in the same league as Kubrick, MartinScorsese, kurosawa, fellini etc..and he writes and directs his films as well, unlike Kubrick who adapted from other source material for every film he made. They both have their merits and flaws, but for sure Kubrick had a better filmography.
Aww, RIP FSH who is amazing in this. Along with Julianne Moore. And William H Macy. Not forgetting John C. Reilly. Philip Baker Hall was excellent. Luis Guzman great as always. Little Jeremy Blackman (Stanley) was great too.
@@sameerahmed-gx8js I think Magnolia is the most PTA film there is. I think it's his most personal film, and his most meaningful. TWBB is meant to be a certain kind of film, and because of that there is a distance between the director and the film. I don't think pretentious is the right word, but it's close. That distance isn't there with Magnolia.
This interview made it seem like Magnolia about the sleazy Tom Cruise character. If wouldn't see it based on that description, if I didn't know PTA's work.
I couldn’t wait for it because I loved BN so much and when it finally arrived in theaters I thought it was junk, a few scenes aside. I revisited it for the first time last year thinking to re-evaluate it and everything I disliked the first time, I felt the same twenty years later
Loved MAGNOLIA when it came out. It may not have aged that well, but it will always have a special place in my heart. Also, Tom Cruise was robbed at the Oscars.
There is no comparison between him and Tarantino. He is a genius making movies for clever people, Tarantino is a smart ass making movies for idiots,it's all about publicity.
It's simple, really: "Short Cuts" by director Robert Altman depicts a dozen or so main characters whose lives oddly interact in phenomenal ways; all of it chance, one might say, and none of our human stuff is predetermined. Anderson's "Magnolia" was clearly a response to "Short Cuts." Tons of main characters? Check. These characters interacted in odd and unusual ways even though they lived totally different lives and a betting person would bet a lot of money that they really should never meet? Check. Add to that the scene where hundreds of frogs falling out of the sky just happened to save one of the main characters, and then on the screen were the words, "It happened once; it could happen again," or something to that effect. Which is an allusion to one of the nine plagues sent to the Egyptians by the one and only God, the Hebrews' God, and these plagues were sent to convince the Pharaoh to (as Chuck Heston once so eloquently put it) "Let my people go!" Altman was saying it's all chance, there is nobody up there pulling strings, and Anderson was replying: "No, Altman, you're wrong. There is a God." I will leave it up to you to watch both movies, and then tell me I'm wrong.
Oh, and I forgot one other similarity: both films were just over 3 hours long. There were a few other similarities, but I've given you enough to chew on for the time being.
@@SallyMankus130 To judge the currency of your comment, J B, I'm sure I'd have to rewatch both films in the next few days. Yours might be more to his point, or mine might. Also, it helps if you've seen both, too, and not just PTA's contribution to this debate.
