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Burt Reynolds Saw Right Through This Rip-off Artist

posted 9 years ago by pretentiousanderson
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Burt Reynolds on Anderson:

“Personality-wise, we didn’t fit … I think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]. I remember the first shot we did in ‘Boogie Nights,’ where I drive the car to Grauman’s Theater. After he said, ‘Isn’t that amazing?’ And I named five pictures that had the same kind of shot. It wasn’t original. But if you have to steal, steal from the best.”

http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/burt-reynolds-didnt-love-acting-for-pt-anderson.html

(Cue the part where the PTA fantards dismiss Burt Reynolds as a hack for pointing out the obvious, then go on to dismiss me as a 'troll' for doing the same.)

[–] vkumar-17764 9 years ago

This really backfired for you huh?

[–] cyberbob (3488) 5 years ago

I think PTA's cockiness/arrogance is pretty well documented

I've read one interview where he was eating a slice of pizza and talking about how porno flicks should have been their own genre, but video killed it. Nothing necessarily arrogant in that statement, but talking about porn as a "film genre" while eating makes me think he sees himself as pretty cool and clever. And Boogie Nights WAS cool and somewhat clever, so I guess he had a right to feel like that

Then, supposedly, after writing Punch Drunk Love, he handed the script to Adam Sandler and said "you're welcome". As if he was doing Sandler a big favor by giving him a "legitimate" acting role or something

And when There Will Be Blood came out, in an interview in which he was asked about being the frontrunner for Best Picture and Best Director, and told that his main competition was the Coens' No Country For Old Men, he supposedly scoffed at the Coen Bros. beating him, which they did end up doing lol

But he is what we call an "auteur", and I'm sure he sees himself this way and is aware that that is how people see him. A visionary, a "true artist" or however you wanna describe it. So I think a certain level of arrogance is sort of necessary to maintain that type of career. He is certainly not the only egotistical writer/director out there

[–] Druff (1800) 10 months ago

Wasn't it in Burt Reynolds' contract that he would talk a lot of shit about everyone he worked with over the last 15 years of his career? Because that's pretty much what he did. "Everyone sucks but me."