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Summary: A must for the fans
Review: If you were a fan of Magnolia, this book is definatley needed in your collection. Not everyone appriciated it's length, it's complexity, and it's insight, but hey, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, right? Well this book makes a wonderful counterpart to the movie (although the soundtrack is the first thing you should buy). The script is the original shooting script, so you see some minor changes and additional scenes that were apparently cut from the film (i.e. an extended storyline involving Stanley, The rapping kid, and "The Worm"). There's plenty of behind the scenes pictures, and a forward by pta, as well as an interview that offers some insight as to not only the meaning behind the title behind the film, but the stunning climax. This book could help you answer some of the questions you may of had leaving the theatre about the film.
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Summary: Operatic
Review: In the bonus features of the Magnolia DVD, Julianne Moore calls the screenplay she's been reading for the last few minutes operatic, with big emotions that require sincerity to work. "Otherwise they wouldn't sound true," Moore says. That earnest praise is on display in PTA's astonishing cinematic masterpiece, but the film works so well not only because the director ensured sincere emotions from his actors, but because scope and power were already there in the script. PTA as a screenwriter , in my personal view, is more attuned with the charisma of cinematic medium than PTA the director. This screenplay, unconventionally, verbalizes the complex mechanics of a shooting script in advance, so here you will find everything on how the camera ought to maneuver, symbolic layers ought to be folded--from most superficial to the most arcane written out in advance--and it's a pity that not all of those details find their realization in the movie. The script is therefore more illuminating in terms of visual storytelling than even the movie by itself. When held next to one another, each one points out to the dissonances between the realm of the imagined and the realm of the possible. Magnificently grandiose, operatic screenplay--I recommend it to every moviegoer.
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Summary: Best Published Screenplay EVER
Review: Luckily for me, Paul Thomas Anderson dropped by my favorite bookstore to sign copies of this publication a few days ago. I got a chance to shake the man's hand and tell him what an incredible influence he was on me wanting to write and direct my own films. "Magnolia : The Illustrated Screenplay" has to be the BEST published screenplay EVER. Not only do you get the actual shooting script (as opposed to those cheesy transcriptions of finished movies) but you also get a lengthy, fascinating interview with Anderson as well as a bunch of full color photographs taken behind the scenes of the shoot. But, of course, the best part of the book is the actual writing itself. This screenplay reads more like a complex and quite brilliant novel. As you read, you will undoubtedly be struck with genuine awe at just how Anderson managed to jump back and forth so many times between so many different, multi-layered storylines while still preserving a coherent narrative under the umbrella of a singular underlying theme: redemption. Although he'd be the first to deny it, the man's quite simply a genius.
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Summary: Great!
Review: Magnolia is one of the best screenplays that I have read in the past few years. It's very enjoyable and a great read.
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Summary: BEST FILM OF THE CENTURY ROBBED OF BEST SCREENPLAY OF YEAR
Review: MAGNOLIA is the brilliant 3-hour intimate epic of Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director-genius-walking God-auteur-idol.It's the story of redemption, loss, lonliness and apocalyptic cataclysm over the course of one day but you can't begin to describe in words anything about what it's truly about even after seeing it. MAGNOLIA was a brilliant film. At 3 hours and 8 minutes, MAGNOLIA is a vast film of such brilliant and breathtaking vision, it makes you wish they gave an OSCAR for BEST SCOPE. I've read the screenplay by ANDERSON and bought the book and it too is brilliant, just like the film. But I suspect because of the publicized editing in the film, ANDERSON'S SHOOTING SCRIPT that is the book is actually more in depth in the nature of certain characters and scenes. The film neglects to explain fully some of the plot threads and the script scoops them up and cradles them in light. It's a self-affirming jolt of a movie that is sure to be unpredictable by everyone. I do recommend both to everyone who can understand the pain of the characters.
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Summary: Pure Excellence
Review: Magnolia is the only film that made me cry last year. The way the characters fall apart bit by bit makes this an amazing look into the lifes of people who appear to be strong. Every character in the script is amazingly ordinary and fasinating , and the actors who played them did a PERFECT job. Also how the film builds in tenison of saddness makes you wonder what will happen next. And then something you forget and unexpected happens. It is brillant, moving film.
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Summary: MAGNOLIA: BEST FILM/SCREENPLAY/ETC. OF THE 20TH CENTURY!
Review: MAGNOLIA, the new epic from BOOGIE NIGHTS director Paul Thomas Anderson, is an incredible fete. It has the distinction of being the most intimate epic ever. It's the funniest and saddest and most affecting epic ever. And it's an epic that is the absolute best film of the 20th Century. It intertwines 9 people over one day in L.A. and not the way you'd expect. The ending is so incredible but critically questioned it's worth seeing to believe.
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Summary: Recommended for film students and movie buffs.
Review: Magnolia: The Shooting Script offers insight into the imagination of film maker Paul Anderson and shows how he translated his ideas into a cohesive film. In addition to the complete shooting script, Magnolia includes an informative introduction by Anderson, an extensive interview conducted by Chuck Stephens with the writer-director, a full-color section of more than 40 photographs, as well as complete cast and crew credits. Magnolia is will prove a highly prized acquisition for film buffs and for film school libraries.
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Summary: I loved this movie and book.
Review: Man this is perhaps one of the best movies and books to come along in some time. Personally it should have been movie of the year in 1999 and is on my all time top 10 list for sure.
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Summary: I loved this movie and book.
Review: Man this is perhaps one of the best movies and books to come along in some time. Personally it should have been movie of the year in 1999 and is on my all time top 10 list for sure.
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