I like the teaser where he recites some of his poetry:

I love you, you love me.
Goin' down the sugar tree.
We'll go down the sugar tree,
and see lots of bees:
playing, playing.
But the bees won't sting,
because you love me.

Gets me every time.

Oh wait, I may be thinking of another PT Anderson.

Two of my favorite film makers are PT Anderson and Wes Anderson. The two things they have in common in my mind, aside from the surname, are far-out films, and every few years they release around the same time. I'm certain it's the same genius, and he's been pulling one over on all of us this whole time.

No but he did screen it for him and apparently he didn't like it heh.

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/paul-thomas-anderson-has-shown-his-scientology-movie-to-tom-cruise-and-/8060?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

>> ^shuac:

It's about time L. Ron Hubbard got some scrutiny from Hollywood. I wonder if Tom Cruise was approached for this role? <snicker, snicker>

This is an excellent example of a good trailer: gives the tone, piques one's curiosity, but gives away nothing. Another good example on the sift right now is this one.

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>> ^kymbos:

Where's he been for the past five years?


Working on various projects. I believe he was trying to get this made for something like a couple of years before it actually happened. You would think that being PT Anderson would get you an automatic greenlight to make whatever you want, but bafflingly enough, it does not. Clearly, something is very, very wrong in Hollywood. If it weren't for Megan Ellison, it's possible that this movie would have never gotten made.

Favourites

1) Season - Summer. I hate the cold, snow and everything winter stands for.
2) Place in the world - Vegas baby, Vegas!
3) Children's book - I don't know the title, but the one where a bunch of bears have a party and eventually end up filling their house with popcorn. I used to love that one. Good times.
4) TV Series - Seinfeld
5) Word - Shenanigans
6) Film - This changes depending on my mood, but I'm going to say 2001.
7) Curse - The curse of the dog faced woman!
Creature - Eric Estrada
9) Past time - Watching movies.
10)Person - PT Anderson

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Dog
12) Sweet or savoury - Savoury
13) Cereal or Toast - Cereal
14) Tan or pale - Tan
15) Shoes or barefoot - Shoes
16) Desktop or laptop - Desktop
17) Drive or walk - Walk
18) Drama or comedy - Both
19) Sex or food - Both!
20) Futurama or Simpsons - If the Simpsons had ended, say, around season 8, that would be my answer for sure. But they've seriously run that show into the ground. So: Futurama.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - Baby chimp plays a guy's stomach like a bongo
22) A great comment on one of your vids - They're all great! (yes, that's a cop out)
23) Most off the wall member - Choggie
24) Favourite user name - Burdturglar
25) Your most used channel - Comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - Dumbass? Me? Never!
27) Best avatar - Schmawy
28) Partner in crime - I'm a lone wolf, baby!
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Nope.
30) Idea for the site - Pie. Delicious pie.

About you

31) Where do you live - The great white north.
32) Smoker/non-smoker - Non
33) Left or right handed - Right
34) Hair colour - Black
35) Relationship status - Single
36) How tall - 6'1
37) Children - Nope
38) Ever had an operation - Yep
39) Best feature - Everything
40) Use four words to describe yourself - Super duper crazy awesome

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Stanley Kubrick
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Cancer
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Zack Snyder, and he can take all his stupid movies with him, especially Watchmen.
44) Relive a moment in your life - The time I found a twenty just lying on the sidewalk. Good times.
45) Have a superpower - Invulnerability
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Will I eventually put my brain in a robot body and live forever as a super-powered robot?
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Prepare for the inevitable zombie uprising.
48) Be president for one hour - Smite my enemies.
49) Delete a period in history - I can't think of anything I'd want to delete altogether.
50) Achieve one thing - Visit every country in the world at least once.

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1) The "Well, jackass, that's good for Happy GilmOH-MY-GOD!" part from Happy Gilmore.

2) The Dirk Diggler Story (the short film that PT Anderson made as a teen, which later formed the basis for Boogie Nights).

3) The Little Women sketch from SNL with Chris Farley going apeshit in the icy water.

4) A Daily Show segment in which the correspondent (I can't remember which one) talks about movies with chimps in them and makes them seem sinister, somehow. I remember they showed a clip from Dunston Checks In, along with a few other chimp movies. All searches at the Daily Show website have been fruitless, unfortunately.

There are a few others which have also eluded me, but those are the only ones that come to mind at the moment.

Since I have no shame, I'm going to point out that this PT Anderson tribute was edited by the same guy who did this one.

I just checked out the website listed in the video: http://ptanderson.com/. You should have a look! If you do decide to take advantage of their offer, please send me some: I don't smoke, but think highly enough of PT Anderson that I'd like to support him if he really needs the cash that much.

In reply to this comment by Sarzy:
I certainly do! If I had known this wasn't on here already I would have sifted it myself. Good stuff.

Actually, fissionchips, it just seems that way because the songs fit so perfectly with the movie. PT Anderson has actually said that listening to Mann's songs is where a lot of the inspiration for Magnolia came from, and he even used a line from one of the songs as a line of dialogue in the film.

As obsessed as I am with TWBB, I was even more obsessed with Punch-Drunk Love, if you can believe it. I saw that one seven times theatrically. It's still my favourite PT Anderson film, and easily one of my favourite films ever.

It is almost obscenely great. I haven't been this obsessed with a film since... well, Punch Drunk Love (I love PT Anderson). If it's playing in a theatre near where you live you absolutely must go see it.

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