Can You Make a Comedy About UFO Cult Mass Suicide?
Austin-based filmmaker David Jones is going to try.
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“Cult” Cinema Comes of Age
While Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master provides the latest (and greatest) vantage point, 2011 saw the release of three solid films on the topic. Why now?
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The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”
Instead of setting out to debunk Scientology, The Master is driven by Anderson’s genuine curiosity about religious charisma. The writer-director got the idea for the film after reading that postwar America was a particularly fertile environment for new religious movements. This idea brought together a number of other themes and ideas that had been rattling around in his head for some time, catalyzing them into a coherent story.
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