9/15/15


What I expect, having not seen Inherent Vice:

Boogie Nights : Reservoir Dogs
Magnolia : Pulp Fiction
Punch-Drunk-Love-type-material : Kill-Bill-type-material
The Master : Inglorious Basterds
Inherent Vice : Django Unchained

Tarantino is the career-arc standard with which to compare, for some reason, in my mind, and Paul Thomas Anderson is the one being analogized, despite his being at the top of my canon.

Tarantino evidently doesn't have a There Will Be Blood.

Notice the trajectory of the analogy as being a great step down in humanism-- in some cases a step up in pleasure.