>Glad to see some people actually
>liked Magnolia. Most people I
>know don't have the patience
>for challenging movies. For all
>the good stuff in it,
>I loved it mainly because
>PTA had the balls to
>go through the "hollywood" system
>with that film, warts and
>all (pun intended). There are

i remember reading (wish I could remember where) that Francis Ford Coppola had told PTA that (coming off the acclaim of "Boogie Nights") he needed to make the movie that he's always wanted to make now that he had caught people's eyes and the studios would let him do what he wants.

>flaws in it (some glaring,
>like the false endings and
>the heavy-handed stylistic things that
>take you completely out of
>the moment), but I forgave

word to all of this...

>them all simply on the
>filmmaker's audacity and unity of
>vision. He had something to
>say and he said it
>- so few filmmakers have
>anything to say, even fewer
>stick with their convictions and
>survive to see their vision
>on the screen.

Peace,
Mosaic
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