Fun fact: The documentary is called That Moment because in the script, on almost every slug line instead of day or night, it reads 'that moment' because most of the scenes happen at the same time.
Never will I ever complain about the price of a movie ticket again. This movie and it's cast, story, music score, everything, in my opinion, is a masterpiece.
The fact he made this and Boogie Nights (hell, even Hard-Eight/Sydney is still a really good film even if it's his worst) before he was 30 is crazy to me
I made two films by the time I was 27, and I thought I was so cool... until I found out who PTA was and I am ashamed to call myself a director. Haven't made one since.
Bro i thought the same 😂 The scenes that you watch and then u see it in different angles And the frog 🐸 scenes Fxking hard What a director PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON 👏 😳
pity this kind of making of have become so rare on dvds' extra features menus.I remember before almost every disc included such a jewel or similar stuff on movie crews and their work behind the scene, or at least audio commentary of director and production members.I really miss that stuff and still remember Ridley Scott or Scorsese describing their Job.
True 2012-14 is when they started getting lazy just making some quick 5 minute behind the scenes feature mid 00s dvds would have like hour or two of extras
Everyone is so excited to say everyone's on coke all the time. Most people calm down as they age. PTA talks a lot less than he used to as well. Does fewer interviews, doesn't do commentary tracks. It's maturation, not coke.
@@jon8004 Sorry. It was coke. Anderson has been open about his cocaine problem early in his career, especially while he was dating Fiona Apple from the late nineties to the early 2000s. Fiona Apple just recently said that going on a coke binge one night with Anderson and Tarantino led her to quit doing it. Even with that public information, if you have either personal experience with it, or have been around people who’ve had issues with it, it’s pretty obvious here.
@@lostintechnicolor I've read about Anderson's cocaine usage, and I read the Apple story in the New Yorker. I've also worked in the media industry for two decades. I've been around plenty of people on cocaine. Some of those people are exactly the same on cocaine as they are off of it. (Tarantino, one of his early coke buddies, is a prime example.) Could he be using coke in this documentary? Maybe. But you're seeing cocaine because it entertains you to see it there, not because it "obvious". Sorry.
@@jon8004 Is this the part where we measure dicks over who knows more about cocaine? I, too, have known many people who more than dabbled in cocaine. I don’t take any pleasure in pointing out the painfully obvious more than you take pleasure in denying it. Go to the part of this doc where he’s directing the kid and his dad at the diner and tell me its not really obvious what he’s doing in that shot with his back to the camera by himself.
Magnolia is more like a breathtaking experience than just a movie, and just like the ironing he describes the scene just get better and better. It is an incredible work
supermariofan03 not anymore, but he had a huge coke problem back then and it’s pretty well known. He’s talked about it before. Pretty sure he’s clean now.
@@DuncanUdaho67 If he isn't, then he has learned how to be one seriously chilled out coke head!! You can see it in his movies too though. Back then, he was wildly self confident, but now, it's all quiet confidence. The later is only something you learn after much experience and humility.
@@tomcat1020 Fiona Apple, his then girlfriend, is playing the personification of the movie Magnolia while PT tries to whip it into shape and acknowledging the criticism being talked about the film.
The fact that Magnolia, Eyes wide shut, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Matrix, Fight Club, Being Joh Malkovich, The Green Mile, The Blair witch project, and Notting Hill was released in the same year, 1999, is absolutely mind-blowing. So many movies that will later be deemed classics. Nowadays we are lucky to have even 3 good movies in the same year.
@@freindmaker4473 I wouldn’t say he was totally “privileged.” He started out making short films like a lot of filmmakers. But he certainly did have an advantage growing up around show-business people in California.
omg @ 8:49, PT's creep through the frame. He looks like catering staff after an all-night bender. Gearing up to direct my first film, the dude is true inspiration. I love you PT.
@39:53. Seeing Melinda Dillon and Phillip Baker Hall rehearsing the scene where she calls him out for abusing their daughter.. its just great craft. You can see them getting it together at half-speed. And then ready to turn it up full blast when they go for real.
PTA is such a phnominal artist/director! Given his talent at such a young age, it's truly remarkable! I have to say that having lost my hero, Mr Stanley Kubrick (I absolutely idolize the man), PTA couldn't have come at a better time for me, and has made his passing so much more bearable! Thank you Paul, and I will be looking forward to everything that your future holds! God bless!
Thank you so much for the upload! This is one of the single greatest videos I've seen on RUclips. Does anyone know if there are any other documentaries like this?
PTA had his cadre of actors. Lots of buzz around Tom Cruise certainly and kudos for PSH, WH Macy, Julianne Moore, Robards, Baker, John C and Felicity. And there in credits for the movie at the end is "with Melora Walters". She rocked this part and was the heart and soul of the movie!
Totally fascinating to see how he works and how the filming process in general is carried out. Of course at the time there will have been so much coke flying around, but maybe as he said he was nervous as a director here so probably felt he needed that stimulation. P.S as a final note: it seems most men definitely get better looking with age
That still doesn't justify your assumption. You're still making an unproven accusation. You said "of course at the time there will be so much coke flying around" as if there was. You don't know that regardless of what you know about people on coke.
it's a youtube comment section on a filmmaking documentary not a courtroom lol why are you dedicating so much energy to this. I might understand if you were having a political argument but come on it's just about a guy who we know did coke around this time seeming like he's on coke
What I find so magnolia like is that Tarantino, Anderson and Wes Anderson share an early film trajectory. First films of all 3 were under the radar but critics loved them There sophomore efforts were wildly popular and shot them to stardom There 3rd films were divisive and their fourth films are cultish classics.
This was unbelievably intimate to me. And i don't know, but usually when some says "the making of" you don't really expect it to be the making of haha. Very cool
Listening to this and even his interviews more recently it always throws me off. If I were to guess and I’ve never heard him anywhere before I would think the director of there will be blood, the master, phantom thread etc. would be almost professorial in his speech. He makes some of the most intellectually engaging studio films of the last 20 years and it’s refreshing that he’s not pompous or pretentious about his work.
just to clear things up in the comments he is on record saying (about the coke scenes in Boogie Nights) 'ive done a lot of coke, ive had those talks'. you can even find the exact quote on the Cigs and Vines website...
Thank you, Paul Anderson, for BOOGIE NIGHTS and this, both masterpiece studies of human nature. Watching this, I was right in THAT MOMENT with every character.
I'd HATE to go to the premier of THIS movie. :D Can you imagine how awkward it would be to be in the first crowd for Magnolia not knowing what kind of movie it is?
yeah he was.. he also seems like a really cool guy in some of the little interview things on here where hes just talking like where hes talking about the wild bunch and the mexican lizard or whatever!
knowing Paul had a coke habit in the 90's, and looking at his behavior here, it's a pretty good guess. Kind of like guessing you're a douchebag, I don't know for sure, but I'd but 20 dollars on it
He's admitted so in interviews. His favourite scene in Boogie Nights is when Rollergirl is all coked up with Julianne Moore because it took from his own experience
I always thought Magnolia, even more so than There WBB , was his MasterPiece. They are all masterpieces of course. But you gotta say which one is the Topps- to me its Magnolia. PTA is quite the hands talker
This is for me the pinnacle of great movies. After the 90s we watch the fall of movie making and nowadays you only see a bunch of movies that are the marvel comics series that shows the lack of creativity in Hollywood, then you have the remaking of old movies again the same feeling or no imagination creating new stories and also you have a trend of making the number 2 films, like if there's a movie that it's a success and a blockbuster they milk the cow till the end and will mass produce the movie 1 2 3 etc like scary movie 9 Rocky 11, fast and furious 23 etc... Jesus Christ! That's why I became a fan of Korean, Japanese and East European( not including Russia) cinematography! And of course European movies.
But the actual scene when they fall is magnificent. That shot of them falling silently, followed by the thunderous noise as they reach earth..that's great cinema!
@@GunDaddy818 I can understand why some wouldn't care for that scenario playing out mind you. Personally, I love the film so much up until that point I let Anderson away with it. You have to keep in mind that it was the turn of the millennium. There was talk of changes in the weather, of world ending disasters. All those myths came out then the millennium turned, so having falling frogs in a movie doesn't seem so crazy, baring in mind the times.
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Fun fact: The documentary is called That Moment because in the script, on almost every slug line instead of day or night, it reads 'that moment' because most of the scenes happen at the same time.
Joe Jacques someone else spotted that too! Awesome man
Yes, it took me a long time to find that out. It’s the perfect description though. That’s why he’s a genius.
THAT FACT WAS NOT FUN FUCK OFF
@@tripp8443 haha
Magnolia?
Never will I ever complain about the price of a movie ticket again. This movie and it's cast, story, music score, everything, in my opinion, is a masterpiece.
its
One of the most underrated
@UCh5fMhhphD7yaWhKM8PLqWg tits
Yes and we need more movies like this. Too much crap being made. We are in a movie slump
Sure? Difference is that this is a great movie. Most movies are crap and u have to pay a high price for a ticket :=)
I WANT every movie to employ this practice on every bluray and dvd
Every good movie. We don't need a 2 hour documentary on Transformers.
Harry Stoddard
true.
MMMMaaagnolia movieeee heeeeree => twitter.com/abfd814f64b4d121d/status/822790545076432897
@@HarryS77 yes we do
The fact he made this and Boogie Nights (hell, even Hard-Eight/Sydney is still a really good film even if it's his worst) before he was 30 is crazy to me
to even direct a feature in general, good or bad, before your thirty is huge, let alone how many masterpieces PTA made by then😂
I made two films by the time I was 27, and I thought I was so cool... until I found out who PTA was and I am ashamed to call myself a director. Haven't made one since.
and there will be blood !
Cocaine is a powerful drug man
God, I love PTA. Seems like such a nice and intelligent but also non-pretentious and very humane man.
+Phreaker1997 He was punky
MarkDeMort Back then, nope. Now, absolutely.
sounds like he was more fun and talented when he was on coke
@@beni8ification Whatchu talking about? Magnolia was his last iffy movie. Everything since has been fantastic.
I adore the man more than any other living filmmaker but he was a son of a bitch to a lot of people early in his career
Magnolia looked like it was really hard to make. And the effort showed. Fantastic movie by a fantastic director.
Bro i thought the same 😂
The scenes that you watch and then u see it in different angles
And the frog 🐸 scenes
Fxking hard
What a director PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON 👏 😳
William H. Macy is such a gem. "He developed the film too. He set up a lab in his bathroom and developed the film."
8:54 the way that he uses his real life eyes to imitate the camera movement lmao
I think every director would do that if it didn’t look so weird lol
@@nickshannon8860 directors usually use both hands to make "L"s to create like a frame to make it less awkward lol
I treasure the moments with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul the most. Invaluable footage, what powerhouses.
Greatest Director Of His Generation
Dont forget the coens
Anosh Aibara ehh yeah but pta firstly ;)
probably without tarrantino in that generation
which generation would that be? just to clarify..
@@kanem.s8718 Oh, Tarantino too !!!
pity this kind of making of have become so rare on dvds' extra features menus.I remember before almost every disc included such a jewel or similar stuff on movie crews and their work behind the scene, or at least audio commentary of director and production members.I really miss that stuff and still remember Ridley Scott or Scorsese describing their Job.
Blu-rays don't cost much more but the format is much better.
It’s a disappointing trend.
Here we are 6 years later. Everything is streaming. I lament the death of bts features constantly.
True 2012-14 is when they started getting lazy just making some quick 5 minute behind the scenes feature mid 00s dvds would have like hour or two of extras
@@hamsandwichson If you get the DVD for Twin Peaks season 3, the behind the scenes coverage has multiple 40-50 minute installments.
It’s kind of sad seeing how much effort and stress went into scenes that didn’t even make it into the movie
17:02 Music: "It's not going to stop"
PTA: "Stop"
Hahaha 😂😂😂 LOL
Holy shit, PTA is coked out of his mind in this. The way he acts now compared to the late 90s-early 2000s is night and day.
There’s no doubt coke was needed to make this movie
Everyone is so excited to say everyone's on coke all the time. Most people calm down as they age. PTA talks a lot less than he used to as well. Does fewer interviews, doesn't do commentary tracks. It's maturation, not coke.
@@jon8004 Sorry. It was coke. Anderson has been open about his cocaine problem early in his career, especially while he was dating Fiona Apple from the late nineties to the early 2000s. Fiona Apple just recently said that going on a coke binge one night with Anderson and Tarantino led her to quit doing it.
Even with that public information, if you have either personal experience with it, or have been around people who’ve had issues with it, it’s pretty obvious here.
@@lostintechnicolor I've read about Anderson's cocaine usage, and I read the Apple story in the New Yorker. I've also worked in the media industry for two decades. I've been around plenty of people on cocaine. Some of those people are exactly the same on cocaine as they are off of it. (Tarantino, one of his early coke buddies, is a prime example.) Could he be using coke in this documentary? Maybe. But you're seeing cocaine because it entertains you to see it there, not because it "obvious". Sorry.
@@jon8004 Is this the part where we measure dicks over who knows more about cocaine? I, too, have known many people who more than dabbled in cocaine. I don’t take any pleasure in pointing out the painfully obvious more than you take pleasure in denying it. Go to the part of this doc where he’s directing the kid and his dad at the diner and tell me its not really obvious what he’s doing in that shot with his back to the camera by himself.
Magnolia is more like a breathtaking experience than just a movie, and just like the ironing he describes the scene just get better and better. It is an incredible work
This was through and through amazing. That 'fight' with Fiona/Magnolia at the end.. pure genius
@@AfterSimone Apparently he was kinda abusive, emotionally speaking, and I don't doubt that.
@@mariaclaramoraes3074 They were both on ecstasy and cocaine during their relationship.
I love directors like PTA who are always full of energy. That's usually the sign of a director who cares about trying to make a great movie.
supermariofan03 it’s called cocaine
“Full of energy” LMAO. He was coked out of his mind.
@@DuncanUdaho67 How do you know he does coke? I know he smokes. But what makes you think he does coke?
supermariofan03 not anymore, but he had a huge coke problem back then and it’s pretty well known. He’s talked about it before. Pretty sure he’s clean now.
@@DuncanUdaho67 If he isn't, then he has learned how to be one seriously chilled out coke head!! You can see it in his movies too though. Back then, he was wildly self confident, but now, it's all quiet confidence. The later is only something you learn after much experience and humility.
1:06:36 Is the best scene in any Making-Of doc that I've ever watched.
I just went to this part of Doc- what in tarnation is going on here.
Who is she?
@@commonlogic3646 Fiona Apple i'm pretty sure
@@samheppener7878 thank you
@@tomcat1020 Fiona Apple, his then girlfriend, is playing the personification of the movie Magnolia while PT tries to whip it into shape and acknowledging the criticism being talked about the film.
This looks like such a blast, working with creative people. I want that
The fact that Magnolia, Eyes wide shut, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Matrix, Fight Club, Being Joh Malkovich, The Green Mile, The Blair witch project, and Notting Hill was released in the same year, 1999, is absolutely mind-blowing. So many movies that will later be deemed classics. Nowadays we are lucky to have even 3 good movies in the same year.
Nottin hill? Really?
American Pie? lol
@@filmbuff4they said American Beauty
The year that movies ended and cartoons began
I would settle for one great movie a year from Hollywood, these days.
This is a great example of film production
hard to believe that this dude has such amazing knowledge of people....the balls to have is easy, but this director is of kubrickesque smartness folks
25:52 - so touching, so moving. And what balls to go through something like this.
I learned how many films are ruined by editors and studios by watching the awesome dvd extras like this. Makes one feel like a Tarantino
I was saving up for my first house when I was 28...PTA had already directed Boogie Nights and was filming Magnolia by that age. Mindblow lol
And had filmed Sydney/hard eight as well
His father had a film background
its because he was born in a super privileged place
@@freindmaker4473 I wouldn’t say he was totally “privileged.” He started out making short films like a lot of filmmakers. But he certainly did have an advantage growing up around show-business people in California.
MAGNOLIA is such a huge MASTERPIECE !!! I mean, one of the best movie EVER made !!!
I think i saw Magnolia 3 times when it was at the cinemas. In my early 20s. Watch it about once every year now. Amazing movie and cast.
this is the most human 'Making of' documentary
This Movie changed my Life! It is a miracle
It's my favorite movie. How did it change your life?
This movie was 3 hours???? I watched this the other day and it felt like less. Great movie.
The world needs to protect this man
omg @ 8:49, PT's creep through the frame. He looks like catering staff after an all-night bender. Gearing up to direct my first film, the dude is true inspiration. I love you PT.
How did your film turn out btw? :D
How did you do?
Hope it went well
Kind of surprised Tom Cruise is in NONE of these shots.
He takes his image very seriously, so he probably did not want to look short compared to everyone else considering he is only about 5"8.
"only 5'8"
im 5'8. i felt offended haha. i think tom cruise is 5'6
They shot all of his stuff first and likely didn't want to be a part of the documentary anyway.
I’m sure it’s on purpose. Either his people demanded it or PTA didn’t want to rock the boat
@39:53. Seeing Melinda Dillon and Phillip Baker Hall rehearsing the scene where she calls him out for abusing their daughter.. its just great craft. You can see them getting it together at half-speed. And then ready to turn it up full blast when they go for real.
My favorite bits are PSH and PTA making each other laugh.
I wasn't expecting it to start counting over 79
PTA is such a phnominal artist/director! Given his talent at such a young age, it's truly remarkable! I have to say that having lost my hero, Mr Stanley Kubrick (I absolutely idolize the man), PTA couldn't have come at a better time for me, and has made his passing so much more bearable! Thank you Paul, and I will be looking forward to everything that your future holds! God bless!
Aside from fear and desire and killers kiss. Stanley Kubricks filmography is flawless.
Thank you so much for the upload! This is one of the single greatest videos I've seen on RUclips. Does anyone know if there are any other documentaries like this?
Sage Benner check out the BTS doc for The Social Network
The lighthouse making of..
can't believe i've never seen this before- thanks
This was the DVD of "Magnolia. It's great.
This was fantastic. Thank you.
Watching this is so fkn sad. Philip was such a great talent, gone far too soon.
Just picturing the editing is making my head spin
PTA had his cadre of actors. Lots of buzz around Tom Cruise certainly and kudos for PSH, WH Macy, Julianne Moore, Robards, Baker, John C and Felicity. And there in credits for the movie at the end is "with Melora Walters". She rocked this part and was the heart and soul of the movie!
Totally fascinating to see how he works and how the filming process in general is carried out. Of course at the time there will have been so much coke flying around, but maybe as he said he was nervous as a director here so probably felt he needed that stimulation. P.S as a final note: it seems most men definitely get better looking with age
How the hell would you know? If you weren't there, you don't know much.
I don't know, but I know what it looks like when someone is on coke. I'm mostly just responding to the comments on this video.
That still doesn't justify your assumption. You're still making an unproven accusation. You said "of course at the time there will be so much coke flying around" as if there was. You don't know that regardless of what you know about people on coke.
it's a youtube comment section on a filmmaking documentary not a courtroom lol why are you dedicating so much energy to this. I might understand if you were having a political argument but come on it's just about a guy who we know did coke around this time seeming like he's on coke
Nicholas Saunders How do you know that? Prove it. If you can't, then you're full of shit.
20:30 RIP PSH :'-(
Great documentary. What an excellent film Magnolia is…
After Boogie Nights, Deluca bought PTA an Avid for him to use and keep. At that time, Avids were about 250k. Dylan did a fantastic job on this film!
The PTA movie I've revisited the least. I swear I've seen this doc more times than I've seen the actual movie.
What I find so magnolia like is that Tarantino, Anderson and Wes Anderson share an early film trajectory.
First films of all 3 were under the radar but critics loved them
There sophomore efforts were wildly popular and shot them to stardom
There 3rd films were divisive and their fourth films are cultish classics.
Not sure Royal tennanbaum’s was divisive I think most people would consider it his best work
This was unbelievably intimate to me. And i don't know, but usually when some says "the making of" you don't really expect it to be the making of haha. Very cool
Still blows my mind that he and Fiona Apple dated and a snippet of their relationship exists on film. Haha
8:50 PTA using his entire body as a camera is the creepiest yet funniest BTS thing ever 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Saw this opening weekend. Just fantastic
Greatest DVD extra ever.
Thanks for posting this.
The secret of management is to get out of the way of the project.
What you mean?
May God rest Phil S Hoffman in the heaven carved away only for legends !
Listening to this and even his interviews more recently it always throws me off. If I were to guess and I’ve never heard him anywhere before I would think the director of there will be blood, the master, phantom thread etc. would be almost professorial in his speech. He makes some of the most intellectually engaging studio films of the last 20 years and it’s refreshing that he’s not pompous or pretentious about his work.
This is amazing. Thank you for posting
This was on the DVD as an extra. have watched it many times.
just to clear things up in the comments he is on record saying (about the coke scenes in Boogie Nights) 'ive done a lot of coke, ive had those talks'. you can even find the exact quote on the Cigs and Vines website...
I love Daniel Lupi (the production manager's) final words on the movie and basically everything he does throughout the documentary.
It’s so clear PTA and PSH are buddies with how they are behind the scenes and you can feel it in their movies.
This never gets old! thanks for posting
the irony of child actors being in the film is quite rich.
This is a true gem ❤️
pta really reminds me of dfw for some reason sometime i have nightmares about pta adapting infinite jest into an hbo miniseries
Yes!
DFW was PTA's teacher in a University in Boston, listen to WTF with Marc Maron PTA podcast, it's cool.
That entire little conversation really made me happy.
Steven Cain Me too :)
Jackson Mace DFW was also PTA´s teacher at the start of the 90s!
Pta breaking it down for the kids is the damn funniest thing.
yo john c having a laugh with the frog throwers - "any hits?" 1? 2? nice!"
Thank you, Paul Anderson, for BOOGIE NIGHTS and this, both masterpiece studies of human nature. Watching this, I was right in THAT MOMENT with every character.
He developed the film himself is the greatest line in any movie ever
I love that bit - and that PTA was big enough even then to allow them to leave it in.
End song is Red Vines Aimee Mann
THANK YOU
That song is about Paul
H. Macy @ 1:01:21 - 1:02:08. Priceless,
Love this movie. Looks like it had a decent budget, too. Also I think that gas station was in Jurassic Park 2.
I just love this guy personality
Crazy that he was 29 during this.
When is Paul Thomas Anderson going to be strapped with an oscar? Original stories/original directors never get a look in..
I fucking love how PTA moves as if he was the camera in the actual movie @8:41
Thank you SO MUCH!
Awesome dude. Thanks.
It's funny to hear Jason Robards to say dude lol
Alex Block I seriously thought the same thing lol
I'd HATE to go to the premier of THIS movie. :D
Can you imagine how awkward it would be to be in the first crowd for Magnolia not knowing what kind of movie it is?
Captain Brandon Cinema Lover
Well it is NOW!
But who thought that the very first time they saw it?
PTA THE GOAT even though i've only watched one movie.
Have you seen anymore of his films?
Robard's was awesome in this
yeah he was.. he also seems like a really cool guy in some of the little interview things on here where hes just talking like where hes talking about the wild bunch and the mexican lizard or whatever!
He wasn't even 30 yet when he directed this
You don't need to be thirty to make a masterpiece. We have very few examples of these, sprinkled throughout history
Fuckin' LOVE Moore...lovely awesome person.
what a special time
funny how there's no footage of tom cruise. perhaps he requested there be no bts of him in his contract
Man he was on so much coke
How the hell would you know? If you weren't there, you don't know much.
knowing Paul had a coke habit in the 90's, and looking at his behavior here, it's a pretty good guess. Kind of like guessing you're a douchebag, I don't know for sure, but I'd but 20 dollars on it
Nicholas Saunders Prove that he had a drug habit. It you can't, then you're full of shit.
sd02231 the copy and paste is strong with this one
He's admitted so in interviews. His favourite scene in Boogie Nights is when Rollergirl is all coked up with Julianne Moore because it took from his own experience
Producer: "We've been shooting forever, it's taken 90 days to film!"
Peter Jackson: "Hold my beer...."
God I love Julianne Moore so much
8:55 - that back curve
I always thought Magnolia, even more so than There WBB , was his MasterPiece. They are all masterpieces of course. But you gotta say which one is the Topps- to me its Magnolia. PTA is quite the hands talker
I always thought of PTA as a mellow, level headed dude; looks like he wasn't always that way.
+Jon Forrest Allan cocaine is a hell of a drug
+Aa90 I don't think he's on coke here; just loving what he does.
+Joe Jr. He does love what he does I imagine but, yeah, cocaine
@@tinyturnip7676 He absolutely was. He has been open about having a coke problem in the late 90s-early 00s.
This is for me the pinnacle of great movies. After the 90s we watch the fall of movie making and nowadays you only see a bunch of movies that are the marvel comics series that shows the lack of creativity in Hollywood, then you have the remaking of old movies again the same feeling or no imagination creating new stories and also you have a trend of making the number 2 films, like if there's a movie that it's a success and a blockbuster they milk the cow till the end and will mass produce the movie 1 2 3 etc like scary movie 9 Rocky 11, fast and furious 23 etc... Jesus Christ! That's why I became a fan of Korean, Japanese and East European( not including Russia) cinematography! And of course European movies.
The first two acts of this film are absolutely brilliant. Then come the frogs.
But the actual scene when they fall is magnificent. That shot of them falling silently, followed by the thunderous noise as they reach earth..that's great cinema!
@@davidlean1060 To me it felt like the director/writer's ego was steering the ship. It made no sense other than we were in his world.
@@GunDaddy818 I can understand why some wouldn't care for that scenario playing out mind you. Personally, I love the film so much up until that point I let Anderson away with it.
You have to keep in mind that it was the turn of the millennium. There was talk of changes in the weather, of world ending disasters. All those myths came out then the millennium turned, so having falling frogs in a movie doesn't seem so crazy, baring in mind the times.
RIP Jason Robards
Making movies is HARD sheeesh thank you Paul i mean WOW
If you like Magnolia, I’d highly recommend Altman’s Short Cuts.