Listen to his O&A radio episode where he talks about "The Piano Teacher" If you didn't already think of him as a perverted weirdo after his SA allegations coming to light, his take on the film will cement any doubt. That said he does have some interesting commentary and a little experience in film making that gives some insight into the film makers process.
@@FedSmoker64I agree with him being a weirdo but I don’t think that his commentary on the Piano teacher was foreshadowing of that. He was just describing the movie. And the movie was good- I watched it cause of his recommendation. You’re missing a bit of nuance. He did a very bad, creepy, carnal thing. And he is currently suffering from it. Instead of going back in the last look what he says now on recent podcasts. He got arrogant, elitist, and he thought that he was the smartest guy in the room and he tried to intellectualize his deviant behavior as he was doing it. The best one is from a year or so ago when he was on “Theo Von’s podcast” It’s a great listen. I still respect him as an artist- But is he a weirdo- yes. But it’s more complicated and nuance than the public thinks. It’s not defending him it’s just being honest about a very bad thing that another human being did.
@@jonaschamp9894 awww man... ive only recently started watching louis content. Ive found it fascinating watching it all after everything came out. theres lots of stuff that makes me feel like he wasnt really hiding it. but i guess hindsight is 20/20 and all that. that theo von interview sounds interesting but youtube has be spamming me theos stuff recently on auto play ( i guess hes getting really popular) so ive got a bit annoyed. if i watch it its gonna spam me even more. All hail the algo but thanks for the recommendation :) have a good one
@@jonaschamp9894 I think you're right, and his description did peak my interest in the films he talked about but I have no yet seen. I saw his Theo Von podcast and he did a good job explaining his circumstances but as a fellow weird pervert, I feel he is just stable enough to say the things we want to hear. I get the feeling there is a darker side of the story he won't admit to. You don't do something like that without a degree of degeneracy (and the expectation of what happened). It would appear from his perspective that it was done "unpainfully" for a lack of a better word, but that is only his perspective. And an old quote I first heard from Patrice O'neal "There are three sides to a story. Yours, mine and the truth" What he did doesn't seem malicious, but isn't something that should have happened and will leave a stain no matter how many times it is washed. I agree he has been overhyped by his peers and grown an ego from that. His early/mid 2000s work was successful because he was the downtrodden broken everyman. He seems to be losing that. Which may be better for his mental being, but doesn't do much for me as a viewer trying to relate.
@@FedSmoker64Man that was very concise, and I honestly cannot refute a word. Touché my friend. We seem to be of the same animal. When you threw in that Patrice O’Neal quote I thought to myself “Fair enough.” Great response. Can not disagree
@@SkiddlyDoo perhaps hes humble enough to not compare himself to the true idea of a filmmaker, such as PTA and Kubrick. I like to write screen plays, but will absolutely never consider myself a true "writer" in the sense of whats is achieved within said outlet, through the likes of Shakespeare or Hemingway for example. Thats writing, compared to just following a structure and trying to fit in whats already been said before.
I love that this is supposed to be Louie sharing his thoughts, so let him talk. But I love that he never lets the other guy talk. He just talks over him every time he tries to talk.
There will be blood shows you that evil is more complex than first thought of I mean, after all oilman, like Plainview advance the human race in the same way that Tim Cook and others ruthlessly brought about the iPhone.
I think Louie should do these critiques along with his comedy because his intellect and appreciation for the art form is just as interesting as his comedy is funny.
"I think he writes beyond his own intellect." Louie's not right about that, but I understand why he said it. PTA works pretty hard to conceal his intellect these days. In that way, he's Tarantino's opposite. Anything that's clever or self-conscious is sanded down most of the time. Louie's from the Northeast, a region where smart people often signal their intelligence. Education and intelligence are currency. PTA's a college dropout from California who makes an extra effort to say as little as possible about his movies. Louie's a brilliant but needy comic.
Its in the title. The Master. The yearning of an undisciplined man for some map to navigate life, provided by a man with a complete vision for himself and everyone else, however incorrectly. My two cents at least
Ignoring the second half of boogie nights is to misunderstand what the movie is about. It's the same mindset of people that ignore the second half of full metal jacket.
I've always looked at FMJ as 2 separate films compressed into 1. The first and second halves of that picture quite literally tell two separate tales. The first is about a hopeful boy seeing his first glimpse of the vast darkness inherent in the Universe. The second half is his adaptation to the fact that he must now find a way to actually EXIST in this Universe. He comes to understand, and even embrace, the ultimate truth: WE ARE ALL CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS. To live as a human animal in this realm, we must embrace both of these diametrically opposed facets of our existence. All of the time. Every waking moment. Denying this leads us nowhere. The two halves of this film -- two tales -- echo the duality which dwells inside all of us, whether we like it or not.
I never expected that I could listen to Louis CK talk about movies for hours. He's definitely far from my favourite comedian but he has great insights.
I swear John C. Riley is one of the most underrated actors of all time because that guy has incredible range and yet every time I bring him up in conversation it always Step Brothers or Wreck it Ralph that gets brought up first which sucks because while I love Wreck it Ralph I wish people would acknowledge his other roles in movies.
@@miguelmonsivais1474 Can you tell me why Step Brothers is beloved because I remember watching that film for the first time and I really don’t get why people find that movie funny because it’s literally one joke of 40 year olds acting children and it’s also very mean spirited and little too gross out for my own taste.
@@maxtubb oh, I dunno. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Dr Steve Brule on the Tim and Eric show. But even if step brothers is too silly for your taste, it doesn't mean that other tastes are less than yours. Just means it's not your thing and that's ok.
@@miguelmonsivais1474 I do love comedy films and the comedy it’s just I don’t think movies like Step Brothers should be lumped with comedy classics like Some Like it Hot or Blazing Saddles. Regarding Tim and Eric I have mixed feelings on that show because on one hand I will admit that some of their skits do give me a laugh but on the other hand their style humor predicted Gen Z Hunor which is a style of humor I can not stand.
Paul Thomas Anderson is the best writer director around. "There Will Be Blood" was a masterpiece. He was playing around with the idea of broken families. Louis CK sounds great explaining his work. Like a literature professor.
There will be blood is legendary. Don't let the usual cheap cues that movies use to keep your attention. Just pay attention to the characters and you'll be blessed, the soundtrack is trippy and cooky, and Daniel will lead you down the dark road
The patience PTA has with his films is much the same patience the audience must have. For the director, it's letting the story line, acting, and visual cues all fall into place and bring out the essence of the movie; the themes/ideas at its core. The viewer must have the patience and trust that if they are locked in and invested, they will get it. The point in "Phantom Thread" at which Alma and Reynolds each realize who the other truly is and how/why they need each other, experiencing that is just sublime film making for me.
He's a comedic genius because secretly he sees the code and understands art and life in a pure and fundamental way. The guys got weird stuff sure, but so do I, so do you. Louis is a patient thinker, listener and speaker. No one is perfect, but I do think the world is better when Louis can speak freely and share his thoughts.
And I thought I knew movies and directors. Jesus CK is on such another level. He needs to do this way more WITH someone trying to interrupt but stopped. Need that too.
😂 It becomes so comical how many times the interviewer tries to get more than a SINGLE word in on Louis’ rant. I thought maybe they edited them out, but it clearly wasn’t because there wasn’t a break in Louis’ ranting AT ALL
@@LeonSKennedy7777 It was edited so we only hear Lious speak. The other people speaking were cut out in order to focus on Louis and what he had to say.
I thought Inherent Vice was fantastic, but it was apparently less well recieved as some of Anderson's other films. It did meander a bit, but so did Doc the main character...
Yeah…ye……..yeah…… it’s almo…….its almost………..yeah……..yeah……right…….right……yeah…… Wow!! Whoever that interviewer fella was, buddy you did not let that interview get away from you. You lead the conversation…. The. Entire. Time!!!! Great job.
I think Daniel does love his son, just as he loves his "brother" but in a very, very conditional way. It's everything or nothing with Daniel, so their betrayals (as he sees it, both are actually just being honest with him) are all the worse. Louis is right, Daniel isn't a sociopath. He simply views the world in incredibly stark terms.
Hated it. I dated this woman 10 years ago and she said her fav movies were TWBB and the Pianist. I watched them and I said wtf? Obviously not long term
I really connected with what Louie had to say about the death of his mom....... For me my dad died when I was 20, but my mom was such a frail person who depended on him mentally and emotionally that he had made me promise to protect her in the same way. In a single moment I went from having a father and always being protected to having to be the protector to tell my mother of his passing to give the eulogy pick the casket etc no doubt it's been an integral to who I have become as a person, but damn if I can figure out in exactly what way
I don’t think Louie really gets Daniel Plainview. He’s got a world paradigm that he’s putting on Daniel and his motives and instincts. He also gets parts of the movie out of order. He wasn’t a billionaire in the gold mine. He parlayed the mine into his first oil venture. I’ll allow it though. The book Oil! which the movie was supposed to be based on (not really though because the movie story was way better) is a thinly veiled class warfare book that glamorizes unions and the proletariat.
They should have a Round Table discussion on films (comedian's edition) with Louis CK, Bill Burr, Patton Oswald and Bill Hader. All are extremely funny, observant and quite prolific when it comes to reviewing movies.
24 minutes of Louis praising PTA…and not one mention of Punch Drunk Love, which was so masterful. Barry Egan was the opposite character of Daniel Plainview: just a mild mannered guy trying his best to fit into the world. He didn’t want to dominate it, just fit in.
You’d never know it from listening to his comedy, but Louis CK can talk film like nobody else; but try to get a word in edge-wise at your own peril. He just needs an audience so that he’s not just talking to a camera or a microphone.
Daniel play Plainview did have love in him. He was a good person deep down, but that all went away when his son had his accident even when he is blackmailed into joining the church service and given the blood of the lamb he has a kind of release he does have good feelings about it, but he’s only there because he’s blackmailed into it, the fact that his son had a freak accident which should not have happened only crystallizes the darkness in his heart which eventually takes over, I relate to him from the addict inside of me who is only happy when when he’s doing something destructive. When he defends his son’s future wife from an abusive father, and takes the life of a charlatan, trying to make a fool out of him he becomes the perfect antihero, which is something we need more in film.
It ended up winning the Oscar for Best Picture up against There Will Be Blood. They were widely considered the front runners that year and if not for No Country TWBB would’ve taken it.
I've never heard Louie go deep on movies before but I've been doing it now for the last 3 or 4 hours lol. And I've discovered that I love Paul Thomas Anderson much more than Stanley Kubrick. I fuckin LOVE a few of these movies. Not that kind where you say it in from of artistic friends to sound cool but like I've watched them by myself several times and thought "how long has it been since I've seen There Will Be Blood? Is it time again yet?" because once it's been about 6 months I can rewatch a movie and enjoy it thoroughly again
Ain’t that the truth. An absolute master of film maker. You wait for them to emerge, and like a magic act they appear. I so love all the films he makes and the places I’m taken. Not always comfortable, but neither is life and damn if he doesn’t capture the perversion, or joy, obsession, narcissism, disappointment, and aimless insanity that makes up life and those you meet along the way.
Watching there will be blood for the first time was a religious experience for me. Very few movies have had that effect on me. P.s. I was just thinking about it and I’d have to include no country for old men in that category as well. Funny thing is not only where those movies released in the same year but actually where filming at the same time in the same location.
@17:20 Louis CK comes out with one of the most insightful things on relationships I've ever heard. That one person is a white hot heap and the other needs to cool them down and let them grow and then cool them down in a weird cycle.
For me….this went from Louis doing this really interesting film analysis to…..somewhere along the way all I could hear was the interviewer trying (unsuccessfully) to interject but, then settling for saying “right right” over and over again
plainview is the stubborn will of man, born to survive 100,000 years ago. he is what we needed to survive, an unyielding, stubborn man bent on not losing against the world around him--as for 100,000 years, losing meant death. he will never change. he is only meant to conquer, and we owe men like that for our existence...despite the warning they bring: compassion would have been the death of our struggling species in its infancy, but it's absence will bring certain death as we mature.
PTA absolutely has tricks. I’m not knocking him but he’s repeated himself more than a few times thematically. Take a few of his movies and hold them side by side and really think about them and you’ll see that they often have a whole lot in common.
The vast majority of great filmmakers' movies have plenty of themes and ideas in common. Andrew Sarris called it their "golden bar". Another way to say it: All these guys basically just make the same movie over and over and over again. It's a good thing. Most of PTA's movies are about improvised families. In the foreground. There's a lot of varied thematic stuff going on in the background.
I wish I loved P.T. Anderson as much as everyone here. I absolutely adore Punch Drunk Love and Boogie Nights but his recent films haven't been on par to those films, for me. I mean, I do like TWBB and I did really like Phantom Thread, but i can't fall in love with them the way most everyone does. Fyi, I did absolutely love Licorice Pizza. I think thats his best since Punch Drunk Love, imho.
With all due respect to your taste, I think PDL is Anderson's worst, that is, the most uninteresting film for me. Personally, for me it's the other way around, I loved TWBB and Master right away. And Inherent Vice.
Well, what are we gonna do? Movies speak to us both in different ways. No big deal. TWBB I get. But the Master, not entirely. His message isn't entirely clear and the film subject doesn't have enough tension, or conflict, to appreciate its message. It wants to be a comedy. But its awkward imbalances between Phoenix and Hoffman's characters seem to be the only thing funny about it. And you're never too sure what Phoenix's true desire, or end goal is. It was very unengaging. I had to watch some film analysis to get its meaning, and I've come to appreciate it somewhat. But it's nothing like PDL. PDL is a dark comedy that delivers all the way through. I understand Sandler's loneliness. His timidness. His frustrations. He's a good guy but he's hardly understood, and his bottled up emotions are what makes him snap in inappropriate moments. The girl he meets is able to understand him and we're able to see him come out of his own dark little world. I was very engaged all the way through.
I really enjoy PTA films, and recently I've been obsessed with The Phantom Thread. But unlike any other director I can think of PTA's plots and characters and settings are so almost surreal that I often feel like I have no real idea of what is being said to the movie watcher or what any of it means. And yet somehow that doesn't really stop me from enjoying his films. And here we hear a valiant effort by deep thinker Louis CK to make some sense of PTA's films, and I really enjoyed hearing his analyses, with the visual cuts from the movies. Wonderful video, thank you for this.
@@Garrett1240 that is part of it, but it isn't an absolute. every director, every writer, every actor, even every lighting person, had an idea they brought to the production, and thought shaming trying to find those ideas is presumptuous at best, and idiotic at worse
There are a couple of movies.. And this is my favorite one... That my read on is like "this movie is about America... Daniel is American ambition and drive".. I'm not sure that he's a real person.. Were the real Rockefellers or whoever that single-minded? He's been stripped of a real point of view or personal ambition, I think. He's just pure ambition. That's why he's not a person, he's America.
I could listen to Louis talk flix all day
Imagine if Louis had a podcast where he chatted with directors like PTA and Tarantino
@@vilefiend9603tarantino and louis fighting for time to talk would be a sight to see
So could Louis CK
@@colinmichels I think Louie had some coke or meth before that discussion because he never even takes a breath.
@@MrArtdelgado210 He probably hadn't jerked off on a potted plant that day, so he was a little wound up.
It's refreshing to hear Louie talk about film in depth.
Listen to his O&A radio episode where he talks about "The Piano Teacher"
If you didn't already think of him as a perverted weirdo after his SA allegations coming to light, his take on the film will cement any doubt.
That said he does have some interesting commentary and a little experience in film making that gives some insight into the film makers process.
@@FedSmoker64I agree with him being a weirdo but I don’t think that his commentary on the Piano teacher was foreshadowing of that. He was just describing the movie. And the movie was good- I watched it cause of his recommendation.
You’re missing a bit of nuance.
He did a very bad, creepy, carnal thing. And he is currently suffering from it.
Instead of going back in the last look what he says now on recent podcasts.
He got arrogant, elitist, and he thought that he was the smartest guy in the room and he tried to intellectualize his deviant behavior as he was doing it.
The best one is from a year or so ago when he was on “Theo Von’s podcast”
It’s a great listen.
I still respect him as an artist-
But is he a weirdo- yes.
But it’s more complicated and nuance than the public thinks.
It’s not defending him it’s just being honest about a very bad thing that another human being did.
@@jonaschamp9894 awww man... ive only recently started watching louis content. Ive found it fascinating watching it all after everything came out. theres lots of stuff that makes me feel like he wasnt really hiding it. but i guess hindsight is 20/20 and all that. that theo von interview sounds interesting but youtube has be spamming me theos stuff recently on auto play ( i guess hes getting really popular) so ive got a bit annoyed. if i watch it its gonna spam me even more. All hail the algo but thanks for the recommendation :) have a good one
@@jonaschamp9894 I think you're right, and his description did peak my interest in the films he talked about but I have no yet seen.
I saw his Theo Von podcast and he did a good job explaining his circumstances but as a fellow weird pervert, I feel he is just stable enough to say the things we want to hear. I get the feeling there is a darker side of the story he won't admit to.
You don't do something like that without a degree of degeneracy (and the expectation of what happened). It would appear from his perspective that it was done "unpainfully" for a lack of a better word, but that is only his perspective.
And an old quote I first heard from Patrice O'neal "There are three sides to a story. Yours, mine and the truth"
What he did doesn't seem malicious, but isn't something that should have happened and will leave a stain no matter how many times it is washed.
I agree he has been overhyped by his peers and grown an ego from that. His early/mid 2000s work was successful because he was the downtrodden broken everyman. He seems to be losing that. Which may be better for his mental being, but doesn't do much for me as a viewer trying to relate.
@@FedSmoker64Man that was very concise, and I honestly cannot refute a word. Touché my friend.
We seem to be of the same animal. When you threw in that Patrice O’Neal quote I thought to myself “Fair enough.”
Great response.
Can not disagree
No way I'd ever find this in a Jim and sam archive. You're doing great work to bring this to the Internet 🎉
It's from my movie podcast with joe list
Louies got such a gift for discussion, he can paint a picture so well with words it makes me think i thought them
Louis doesn’t consider himself a real filmmaker but he clearly understands the craft.
He’s directed movies and TV shows and produced many films. Louie is a film maker. I don’t know why he wouldn’t consider himself one.
@@SkiddlyDoo cos all his films are shit.
@@SkiddlyDoo perhaps hes humble enough to not compare himself to the true idea of a filmmaker, such as PTA and Kubrick. I like to write screen plays, but will absolutely never consider myself a true "writer" in the sense of whats is achieved within said outlet, through the likes of Shakespeare or Hemingway for example. Thats writing, compared to just following a structure and trying to fit in whats already been said before.
I love that this is supposed to be Louie sharing his thoughts, so let him talk. But I love that he never lets the other guy talk. He just talks over him every time he tries to talk.
I feel the exact same way about PT Anderson and his description of seeing There Will Be Blood for the first time was perfect.
Just had the thought that TWBB is a modern retelling of Cain and Abel.
@@zootsoot2006 definitely there in the subtext
There will be blood shows you that evil is more complex than first thought of I mean, after all oilman, like Plainview advance the human race in the same way that Tim Cook and others ruthlessly brought about the iPhone.
Also, there will be blood give strong nods to French, deconstructive, ism, and Harold blooms. Anxiety of influence ; baskets in a bastard.
"It looks like people in 2020 in stupid clothes" Exactly my thoughts, especially drone shots in Napoleon
I think that shooting in 4k looks bad most of the time. The hypersharp resolution and detail just makes everything look like a Hollywood set to me.
@@doltcart except in parasite. It looked incredible.
DO MORE WITH LOUIS!!!!! These are incredibleeeeeeeeeeee!
I think Louie should do these critiques along with his comedy because his intellect and appreciation for the art form is just as interesting as his comedy is funny.
C.K. is brilliant.
Weird. But really intelligent.
His analysis is spot on.
P.T.A. is one ofvthe greats
"I think he writes beyond his own intellect."
Louie's not right about that, but I understand why he said it. PTA works pretty hard to conceal his intellect these days. In that way, he's Tarantino's opposite. Anything that's clever or self-conscious is sanded down most of the time. Louie's from the Northeast, a region where smart people often signal their intelligence. Education and intelligence are currency. PTA's a college dropout from California who makes an extra effort to say as little as possible about his movies. Louie's a brilliant but needy comic.
I know why I enjoy the Master, but i I'm still not sure why I love it t so much.
I think that's the great mystery of the best movies - no one can quite say _why_ it's so great! (like with any art)
Me too man
Its in the title. The Master. The yearning of an undisciplined man for some map to navigate life, provided by a man with a complete vision for himself and everyone else, however incorrectly. My two cents at least
It's Joaquin and PSH. They're just too damn good that even though the story is disjointed and weird it's still fantastic. The photography was A++ too
Ignoring the second half of boogie nights is to misunderstand what the movie is about. It's the same mindset of people that ignore the second half of full metal jacket.
He’s just saying he dislikes it.
No, you’re free to ignore the second half of full metal jacket because it’s nowhere near as good as the first half.
I've always looked at FMJ as 2 separate films compressed into 1. The first and second halves of that picture quite literally tell two separate tales. The first is about a hopeful boy seeing his first glimpse of the vast darkness inherent in the Universe. The second half is his adaptation to the fact that he must now find a way to actually EXIST in this Universe. He comes to understand, and even embrace, the ultimate truth: WE ARE ALL CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS. To live as a human animal in this realm, we must embrace both of these diametrically opposed facets of our existence. All of the time. Every waking moment. Denying this leads us nowhere. The two halves of this film -- two tales -- echo the duality which dwells inside all of us, whether we like it or not.
this is a really fantastic channel.
I never expected that I could listen to Louis CK talk about movies for hours. He's definitely far from my favourite comedian but he has great insights.
I swear John C. Riley is one of the most underrated actors of all time because that guy has incredible range and yet every time I bring him up in conversation it always Step Brothers or Wreck it Ralph that gets brought up first which sucks because while I love Wreck it Ralph I wish people would acknowledge his other roles in movies.
Yeah, you're right but, honestly, Dr Steve Brule is a worthy mention. It's silly but his performance can't be replicated by anyone.
@@miguelmonsivais1474 Can you tell me why Step Brothers is beloved because I remember watching that film for the first time and I really don’t get why people find that movie funny because it’s literally one joke of 40 year olds acting children and it’s also very mean spirited and little too gross out for my own taste.
@@maxtubb oh, I dunno. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Dr Steve Brule on the Tim and Eric show. But even if step brothers is too silly for your taste, it doesn't mean that other tastes are less than yours. Just means it's not your thing and that's ok.
@@miguelmonsivais1474 I do love comedy films and the comedy it’s just I don’t think movies like Step Brothers should be lumped with comedy classics like Some Like it Hot or Blazing Saddles.
Regarding Tim and Eric I have mixed feelings on that show because on one hand I will admit that some of their skits do give me a laugh but on the other hand their style humor predicted Gen Z Hunor which is a style of humor I can not stand.
@@maxtubb ok, that's fine. But Riley's performance as Steve Brule is worth mentioning. That's all I'm saying.
Greatest American film maker for me, he’s only gonna get better.
What? He has been making films for many many years
@@acooksla he’s young to be in his prime for film
It's loosely based on Upton Sinclair's big book called Oil! Like the bones of the story is from there.
Awesome, thanks...now I'm psyched to go rewatch PTA's films
Paul Thomas Anderson is the best writer director around. "There Will Be Blood" was a masterpiece. He was playing around with the idea of broken families.
Louis CK sounds great explaining his work. Like a literature professor.
I must see these movies especially “there will be blood”after watching this
How'd you like it
hope you got to see there will be blood. truly one of the best films ever made.
It's absolutely brilliant. The restaurant scene is just fantastic.
There will be blood is legendary. Don't let the usual cheap cues that movies use to keep your attention. Just pay attention to the characters and you'll be blessed, the soundtrack is trippy and cooky, and Daniel will lead you down the dark road
There will be blood is like a very dark Beverly Hillbillies
How so?
This is edited in such a funny way that it sounds like Louie is just going on tangent and never lets the interviewer say anything. its very amusing.
I like listening to Louis and Patrice talk about films.
Fugg i love louie yammering on about film and culture- specifically on emotion and hard things!
Boogie Nights was a spectacular film. The ending was appropriate and true.
Appropriate, fitting >> comfortable, reassuring
@@mrkeoghpenis>>>>big penis>>>>> downfall.
I just re-watched it the other night and still couldn't remember the ending.
I had to look it up after your comment.
I absolutely agree with him on how authentic PTA makes period pieces look.
"It's like a love affair between a block of ice and a hyena" what a great way to put it hahaha Love Louie's take on movies
The patience PTA has with his films is much the same patience the audience must have. For the director, it's letting the story line, acting, and visual cues all fall into place and bring out the essence of the movie; the themes/ideas at its core. The viewer must have the patience and trust that if they are locked in and invested, they will get it. The point in "Phantom Thread" at which Alma and Reynolds each realize who the other truly is and how/why they need each other, experiencing that is just sublime film making for me.
He's a comedic genius because secretly he sees the code and understands art and life in a pure and fundamental way. The guys got weird stuff sure, but so do I, so do you. Louis is a patient thinker, listener and speaker. No one is perfect, but I do think the world is better when Louis can speak freely and share his thoughts.
No one talks about Licorice Pizza. I’d love to hear Louis’ take on it
No one talks about Inherent Vice or Licorice Pizza for a reason.
Because it was PTA's worse movie (still pretty good compared to most movies though).
@@AgentGrimShortsi didn't know he did punch drunk love. Can't stand that movie. Licorice is entertaining and has some rewatchability value.
@@Nifavalicorice pizza is better than phantom thread and inherent vice. Maybe better than the master too. Those are all great but LP is sublime
Because it wasn’t very good. Phantom Thread was perfect to me and the Master is a masterpiece.
And I thought I knew movies and directors. Jesus CK is on such another level. He needs to do this way more WITH someone trying to interrupt but stopped. Need that too.
I feel his sentiment about there will be blood. I think about the movie at random times and watching is like some soothing experience.
Dude, Louis CK is like a graduate level education on film
Rob ager is
Longest run-on sentence in human history.
😂 It becomes so comical how many times the interviewer tries to get more than a SINGLE word in on Louis’ rant.
I thought maybe they edited them out, but it clearly wasn’t because there wasn’t a break in Louis’ ranting AT ALL
@@LeonSKennedy7777 it was indeed edited
@@watchfighting571 ah, I see. Very well done then because it’s hard to notice big jumps in Louis’s trains of thought
😂 LOL
@@LeonSKennedy7777
It was edited so we only hear Lious speak. The other people speaking were cut out in order to focus on Louis and what he had to say.
Where is the og interview with him talking about film?
I thought Inherent Vice was fantastic, but it was apparently less well recieved as some of Anderson's other films. It did meander a bit, but so did Doc the main character...
Yep, it was good. Beside TWBB and Master is my favorite PTA movie.
I loved Inherent Vice.
We need a Louis CK podcast :(
Would rule
Check him out on the mssp podcast if you havent, talkin about Presidents for hours.
I liked Louis more when I didn't know his politics.
Greatest filmmaker and comedian our time
Pootie Tang is an underrated gem!! Not even joking I love that stupid damn movie.
What is the long form origin of these interviews? Would love to hear more
joe & ranaan talk movies episode 25
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Wow!! Whoever that interviewer fella was, buddy you did not let that interview get away from you. You lead the conversation…. The. Entire. Time!!!! Great job.
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It's edited you retard
Thank you for attempting to quell Ranaan's incessant interrupting of Louis.
The master was my favourite
If I heard this live, I'd be like omg just let Louis talk, everyone shut up please thanks. This video is great
Such a great score. Wasn't it Johnny from Radiohead?
It is!!
This is so much better than the original podcast. The two hosts were annoying.
More so one of the cohosts* which you can hear Louis admonish repeatedly
So in short, I think Louie is saying PTA is the greatest director of all time.
what a great intro by Louis. I miss his show
Same here
I wish there was more content like this, film makers talking in long form about movies they enjoyed and why
I think Daniel does love his son, just as he loves his "brother" but in a very, very conditional way. It's everything or nothing with Daniel, so their betrayals (as he sees it, both are actually just being honest with him) are all the worse.
Louis is right, Daniel isn't a sociopath. He simply views the world in incredibly stark terms.
Edgewise - The Louis CK interview
well, he sold me. I need to watch all PTA movies.
Where was this sourced from?
Hey look, it's creepy uncle Louis. 😂🤣
Loved the master. I grew up with crazy people like that.
I could never ever see There will be blood again. It’s so intense and crazy and dark.
Hated it. I dated this woman 10 years ago and she said her fav movies were TWBB and the Pianist. I watched them and I said wtf? Obviously not long term
@ oh I loved them both, just couldn’t see them again, too intense. But TWBB was one of the most incredible movies ever. The acting… wow
Louie should do a special about movies with visuals and jokes. That would break everything
turns out CK is better than 95% of film critics that do this for a living.
I really connected with what Louie had to say about the death of his mom....... For me my dad died when I was 20, but my mom was such a frail person who depended on him mentally and emotionally that he had made me promise to protect her in the same way. In a single moment I went from having a father and always being protected to having to be the protector to tell my mother of his passing to give the eulogy pick the casket etc no doubt it's been an integral to who I have become as a person, but damn if I can figure out in exactly what way
its pretty funny that louis said to his mom 'i dont want to lose you', and she basically said, 'get over it and don't be a a baby'😆 savage
I don’t think Louie really gets Daniel Plainview. He’s got a world paradigm that he’s putting on Daniel and his motives and instincts. He also gets parts of the movie out of order. He wasn’t a billionaire in the gold mine. He parlayed the mine into his first oil venture.
I’ll allow it though. The book Oil! which the movie was supposed to be based on (not really though because the movie story was way better) is a thinly veiled class warfare book that glamorizes unions and the proletariat.
More Louis, more often.
One thing is certain, it wasn’t a conversation.
Never is with Louis
Haha was thinking the same thing
@@watcherofthewest8597 I say let him hog the airtime. he's way more interesting to listen to than any of these 2-bit podcast people
You know this is edited, right? This episode was over two hours long.
You know these clips are edited right
Louie Explains why I like Daniel day Lewis
This is one of the better things to enjoy on the internet. LCK on PTA was an absolute home-run!
Does he say that Plainview is already rich/a billionaire in the beginning of the film? I thought he was just trying to make his first money…
Nope, just a driven billionaire 1897 and his hole
Louis is the best critic. period
I wish Louie would go through all PTAmovies or maybe even all Wes Anderson movies.
They should have a Round Table discussion on films (comedian's edition) with Louis CK, Bill Burr, Patton Oswald and Bill Hader. All are extremely funny, observant and quite prolific when it comes to reviewing movies.
I agree, but Burr is the odd one out in this list, I'd replace him with Adam McKay maybe
Patton Oswalt would set himself on fire before he risked his twitter cred by appearing on a fun roundtable with Louis CK.
Bill Burr doesn’t know fuck about movies.
Holy shit, imagine Louis and Bill Hader working on a movie together.
Don’t really need Patton on that table. He’s really gone the way of the spineless over time.
All this is 100% correct but, you can't go wrong when you surround your self with A+ level actors, and crew behind the camera, you can't miss.
We need another round of Louis CK movie talk, if podcasters will still have him on. Other than that unfunny sourpuss Segura, I mean.
24 minutes of Louis praising PTA…and not one mention of Punch Drunk Love, which was so masterful. Barry Egan was the opposite character of Daniel Plainview: just a mild mannered guy trying his best to fit into the world. He didn’t want to dominate it, just fit in.
That one is so hard to watch. The characters; storyline; lighting; production, everything about it I can't stand. Music probably stinks too.
You’d never know it from listening to his comedy, but Louis CK can talk film like nobody else; but try to get a word in edge-wise at your own peril. He just needs an audience so that he’s not just talking to a camera or a microphone.
Daniel play Plainview did have love in him. He was a good person deep down, but that all went away when his son had his accident even when he is blackmailed into joining the church service and given the blood of the lamb he has a kind of release he does have good feelings about it, but he’s only there because he’s blackmailed into it, the fact that his son had a freak accident which should not have happened only crystallizes the darkness in his heart which eventually takes over, I relate to him from the addict inside of me who is only happy when when he’s doing something destructive. When he defends his son’s future wife from an abusive father, and takes the life of a charlatan, trying to make a fool out of him he becomes the perfect antihero, which is something we need more in film.
Why did he bring up No Country for Old Men? I’m not aware that PTA had anything to do with that movie.
It ended up winning the Oscar for Best Picture up against There Will Be Blood. They were widely considered the front runners that year and if not for No Country TWBB would’ve taken it.
@@billycrystals9185 ahhh, thank you. Now I’m tracking.
I've never heard Louie go deep on movies before but I've been doing it now for the last 3 or 4 hours lol. And I've discovered that I love Paul Thomas Anderson much more than Stanley Kubrick. I fuckin LOVE a few of these movies. Not that kind where you say it in from of artistic friends to sound cool but like I've watched them by myself several times and thought "how long has it been since I've seen There Will Be Blood? Is it time again yet?" because once it's been about 6 months I can rewatch a movie and enjoy it thoroughly again
Ain’t that the truth. An absolute master of film maker. You wait for them to emerge, and like a magic act they appear. I so love all the films he makes and the places I’m taken. Not always comfortable, but neither is life and damn if he doesn’t capture the perversion, or joy, obsession, narcissism, disappointment, and aimless insanity that makes up life and those you meet along the way.
Holy condensation edit!
Why is there an executive producer on a video that's just audio and clips from movies? Lol
Watching there will be blood for the first time was a religious experience for me. Very few movies have had that effect on me.
P.s. I was just thinking about it and I’d have to include no country for old men in that category as well. Funny thing is not only where those movies released in the same year but actually where filming at the same time in the same location.
@17:20 Louis CK comes out with one of the most insightful things on relationships I've ever heard. That one person is a white hot heap and the other needs to cool them down and let them grow and then cool them down in a weird cycle.
he is pretty fucking good at analysis not gonna lie, i wanna go and re-watch all those movies
Wow what a fascinating take
Punch drunk love is the greatest RomCom ever and is the debut of Adam Sandler as a serious actor.
For me….this went from Louis doing this really interesting film analysis to…..somewhere along the way all I could hear was the interviewer trying (unsuccessfully) to interject but, then settling for saying “right right” over and over again
plainview is the stubborn will of man, born to survive 100,000 years ago. he is what we needed to survive, an unyielding, stubborn man bent on not losing against the world around him--as for 100,000 years, losing meant death.
he will never change. he is only meant to conquer, and we owe men like that for our existence...despite the warning they bring: compassion would have been the death of our struggling species in its infancy, but it's absence will bring certain death as we mature.
Joe and Raanannananan talk movies
PTA absolutely has tricks. I’m not knocking him but he’s repeated himself more than a few times thematically. Take a few of his movies and hold them side by side and really think about them and you’ll see that they often have a whole lot in common.
The vast majority of great filmmakers' movies have plenty of themes and ideas in common. Andrew Sarris called it their "golden bar". Another way to say it: All these guys basically just make the same movie over and over and over again. It's a good thing. Most of PTA's movies are about improvised families. In the foreground. There's a lot of varied thematic stuff going on in the background.
I wish I loved P.T. Anderson as much as everyone here. I absolutely adore Punch Drunk Love and Boogie Nights but his recent films haven't been on par to those films, for me.
I mean, I do like TWBB and I did really like Phantom Thread, but i can't fall in love with them the way most everyone does.
Fyi, I did absolutely love Licorice Pizza. I think thats his best since Punch Drunk Love, imho.
With all due respect to your taste, I think PDL is Anderson's worst, that is, the most uninteresting film for me.
Personally, for me it's the other way around, I loved TWBB and Master right away.
And Inherent Vice.
Well, what are we gonna do? Movies speak to us both in different ways. No big deal.
TWBB I get. But the Master, not entirely. His message isn't entirely clear and the film subject doesn't have enough tension, or conflict, to appreciate its message. It wants to be a comedy. But its awkward imbalances between Phoenix and Hoffman's characters seem to be the only thing funny about it. And you're never too sure what Phoenix's true desire, or end goal is. It was very unengaging.
I had to watch some film analysis to get its meaning, and I've come to appreciate it somewhat. But it's nothing like PDL.
PDL is a dark comedy that delivers all the way through. I understand Sandler's loneliness. His timidness. His frustrations. He's a good guy but he's hardly understood, and his bottled up emotions are what makes him snap in inappropriate moments.
The girl he meets is able to understand him and we're able to see him come out of his own dark little world.
I was very engaged all the way through.
Thank for for cutting out Ranaan
Wow! Stream of consciousness… he doesn’t stop
"Right"
Extremely deep insigt on PTA's films. One can't not reflect that to CK's own troubles.
Bro is NOT letting the other guy speak at ALL 😂💀
If you listen to the full podcast, you'll be grateful for this
@@simontaylor2525 oh fair enough ahah what’s the full podcast sorry? I’ll have to check it out
I really enjoy PTA films, and recently I've been obsessed with The Phantom Thread. But unlike any other director I can think of PTA's plots and characters and settings are so almost surreal that I often feel like I have no real idea of what is being said to the movie watcher or what any of it means. And yet somehow that doesn't really stop me from enjoying his films. And here we hear a valiant effort by deep thinker Louis CK to make some sense of PTA's films, and I really enjoyed hearing his analyses, with the visual cuts from the movies. Wonderful video, thank you for this.
Art isn’t proscriptive. There’s nothing to “get”. It’s up to you find meaning.
@@Garrett1240 that is part of it, but it isn't an absolute. every director, every writer, every actor, even every lighting person, had an idea they brought to the production, and thought shaming trying to find those ideas is presumptuous at best, and idiotic at worse
I agreed with every single work Louis said during that diatirbe.
i'm FINIIIISHED
Insightful commentary but I wonder if CK knows that TWBB is based on Oil an Upton Sinclair novel. That's where PTA's movie comes from.
Still waiting for someone to make a good modern movie out of "Der Untertan" by Heinrich Mann
I just realised all these films are about his father. These great, accomplished, flawed men.
There are a couple of movies.. And this is my favorite one... That my read on is like "this movie is about America... Daniel is American ambition and drive"..
I'm not sure that he's a real person.. Were the real Rockefellers or whoever that single-minded?
He's been stripped of a real point of view or personal ambition, I think.
He's just pure ambition.
That's why he's not a person, he's America.