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Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzman, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Boogie Nights |
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Eddie Adams (Wahlberg), a high-school dropout, yearns to get into porn movie acting. Discovered by director Jack Horner (Reynolds) in a bar, Eddie takes the stage name Dirk Diggler and swiftly moves into the partying, cocaine-powdered lifestyle of the industry. One of the people he encounters is Maggie, stage name Amber Waves, a mother struggling to retain custody of her son and quasi-mother to porn actors and actresses new to the business. Other acquaintances are less savory, from a timid homosexual film crew member (Hoffman) to a dancing, singing cocaine addict (Alfred Molina, in a hilarious turn). As the 1970s turn into the 1980s, things take a downturn for many of the characters. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 breakaway film pays homage to the 1970s -- its music, clothing, decor, and social attitudes -- as well as the porn movie industry of southern California before the era of AIDS. It's a challenging, thought-provoking epic about a disreputable business and a disrespected period of American history.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Boogie Nights |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
- really kinky sex!
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Unclothed?
- Full Frontal
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- wealthy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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