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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  February 2013 #2

  "The Master" didn't follow the conventional story line with a heroic character. Both characters were awful human beings. I kept waiting for Joaquin's character to kill Hoffman's character. A study in dysfunctional codependency.

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,311 Senior Member

  February 2013 #3

  Given that "The Master" is about a Scientology-esque religion, and how many of Hollywood's elite are Scientologists, the chances of that movie doing well at an awards show are pretty nil. It's all part of the Scientology hegemony of the entertainment industry. There should be an independent investigation.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  February 2013 #4

  I nominate Ed!

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• ouzelpro Senior Member Posts: 5,361 Senior Member

  February 2013 #5

  I haven't seen it yet, but plan to. My wife refuses to see it, she suspects that she has known a few people like the characters.

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• yatahey Senior Member Posts: 5,605 Senior Member

  February 2013 #6

  Is Salty in this movie?

  "When the goin gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson

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• creekguy Senior Member Posts: 4,371 Senior Member

  February 2013 #7

  The Master opened in Denver at a few main theaters, and then quickly was only at one of the Art theaters, and then was gone. I wonder if that was because it didn't draw crowds, or because the theaters didn't want any trouble from the scientologists?

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• Shawn C. Senior Member Posts: 7,027 Senior Member

  March 2013 #8

  I saw where it only grossed about 1/2 of what the movie cost to make (per IMDB), so maybe it just wasn't a popular film. The scientology parallel was pretty obvious, but I don't think the writer/director went out of his way to make it about scientology. It wasn't even a movie about cults per se.
  
  Is scientology that large of a "religion" that it would draw trouble from its members? I don't know much about them other than they believe in lizard people or some ****.

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,311 Senior Member

  March 2013 #9

  You really need to look up "Scientology."
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Beliefs_and_practices
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices

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• ouzelpro Senior Member Posts: 5,361 Senior Member

  March 2013 #10

  Kind of a freak show, huh?
  I kept looking for context; context to each scene, to the behavior of the characters, and it struck me that that was the point of how the story was told. There was no core or coherence to what the Master was doing, it was all meaningless gibberish, presented with conviction and charisma. Yet, this guy held the attention of his followers, especially the ones that are drifters and seekers, like the Joaquin Phoenix character.
  I think the director nailed that type of control that cults depend on. I can't say that I enjoyed the movie, but its an important story, done very well.

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• dryflie Senior Member Posts: 1,442 Senior Member

  March 2013 #11

  Just watched Argo and frankly wondered how that was selected best picture over Lincoln. OK it's a well done sort of thriller but when you understand the actual story the movie was just a Hollywood invention. Watch it for the nail biting but bear in mind the only relationship between it and the true story is that they are both about Iran. I still want to see Zero Dark, I understand they have real drones.

  “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” - John Kenneth Galbraith

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