Word: characterized
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It's a feat that the writer-director is so utterly successful in conceiving this anti-filmic structure; one of the first rules of screenwriting, mainstream or otherwise, is to surprise the audience by constantly introducing obstacles that prevent a character from achieving his goal. Anderson defies expectation specifically by...
And yet the crosscutting is not a device or a crutch; Magnolia is, in fact, Anderson's most ambitious and assured film to date because he operates without imposing the distance of Hard Eight's hidden motivations or Boogie Nights' campy ludicrousness. There is neither disdain nor caricature in the...
The success of this attempt at full exposure is due in great part to the performances-this is perhaps the most precisely acted ensemble piece ever filmed. Robards, who has mastered the part of the stubborn old grump, is truly great here, shading Earl Partridge with the lowing regret and...
THC: As a character, you tend to give yourself over to your roles. Is it frustrating, as a character actor, that people try to pin you down to the types of roles you play?
THC: The character you play in Magnolia is based on one that you improvised in doing a Cops-parody with Paul Thomas Anderson. But I imagine that it was much more of a caricature at the time.