Now I am a massive fan of Paul Thomas Anderson, absolutely love him, now I was thinking to myself, I bet this director has a fantastic producer to pull all the team together and advertise it... However it was to my surprise, he didn't only direct films, he wrote and produced them! that is just inspiring...
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I think researching him has been most beneficial for me, I really enjoy producing and I really enjoy directing... It is only now I realise that I could potentially do both! which I am now over the moon over. I feel that since he produces his film he can really sell it more because he is the director and the writer and will understand exactly what he wants, sometimes it is best to have one man doing both roles, I saw how well he understood and sells 'The Master' in... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UgL2gJrQLA I also think they will connect with the actors more and get the best out of them, this is obviously evident in Paul Thomas Anderson's work as Daniel Day Lewis won an Oscar for his acting in 'their will be blood' which PTA probably played a part in.
From his interviews I can honestly say he is a really intelligent passionate man and I think the main thing I take from this is his passion for film! He is a truly inspiring man. I spent about 40 minutes researching him, watching interviews and such about his films.
I also managed to find the original dirk diggler story on youtube! I was really pleased I found this, it was around 30 minutes long and was essentially a shortened version of Boogie Nights but it was so fascinating to watch, I know that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the script to this when he was just 17! That for me was incredible, it gives me hope that I could actually get involved in serious film making right now! if i just put time and effort into it.
I have already seen every feature lenght film Paul has ever done.. or at least I thought I had but the first feature length film he did was 'hard eight' which I hadn't seen. So I gave it a watch, it was 102 minutes and was such an amazing film. I love films which aren't predictable and I have to say, watching this with no prior knowledge of it was really enjoyable as it was just so un-predictable. I really got a sense that directors and producers like to work with the same actors. John C. Riley appears in so many PTA films, It had a 3 million pound budget which shocked me to be perfectly honest as it was his first feature lenght film and 3 million is actually a reasonable budget and all Paul had done previously is two short films. I don't know how he produced it, but he must have been a bloody good one. I think, or at east presume it had something to do with the fact he wrote it too, this means he probably had a clear vision of what he wanted his films to be and what he wanted his films to look like. So when he communicated it to others he could let them in on his vision. I am such a fan of PTA and am so excited for inherent Vice.
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