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When Paul Thomas Anderson discovered that Brazilian lands were fertile and green, he wrote a sketch of a script about the saga of “a thief who, after applying a super scam, decides to kill the two comrasas to get all the money.” This was the starting point of the film that the California director, then 23, stated that he would run in Salvador. The revelation was made in an exclusive interview with the reporter Neyse Cunha Lima, published in this Court on September 6, 1993.
Yes, for exactly three decades, one of the greatest filmmakers of today, today with 11 cumulative Oscar nominations, fell in the ebórnia on the Tuesday of the Blessing, in the Plyo, fell in love with capoeira, for the city, and assured that he would return to rotate in such a plot, which would develop as follows: “One of the guys, in fact, did not die and, to get revenge, attract the traitor. The struggle, of course, is the capoeira of Angola, preferably in slow motion, according to Paul, "the reporter wrote about the description, already with technical details, made by the Paul Anderson, after a chat at the Victoria Marina hotel in Vitória.
Smoking a Hollywood and drinking coffee, PTA had been in the capital of Bahia for almost a week, where he landed to participate in a show of American short films in the Walter Room of Silveira. To match the scene recorded by the reporter, his short film was ‘Cigarrettes & Coffee’, a film that would give rise to his first and acclaimed feature, ‘Risk Play, released three years later.
The work had a large cast, with names like Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Gwynethth Paltrow, but the cast that PTA would climb to Bahia would not be owed at all. “As he always does when he starts a script, the director has even thought about who he would call the lead roles: John Malkovich, the unforgettable Viscount of Valmont, of Dangerous Links, and Gary Oldman, the Dracula of Coppola. It’s waiting to see,” wrote Neyse, who still expects.
In fact, it doesn’t even wait, because it barely remembers that day, and I didn’t even know that the ambitious Paul Anderson had gotten a Thomas in the middle and became director of classics like ‘Black Blood’, ‘Magnolia’ and ‘Boogie Nights’. “What cool! I did not remember this matter. And to tell the truth I still don’t remember,” admitted Neyse, who has lived since 2004 in Barcelona, Spain.
“I remembered that I had interviewed a kid who got money for his project playing in Las Vegas, but not that he was a filmmaker, let alone that he was PTA. The only thing I remember beyond the data is that he was very friendly and lively”, recalls about the current fifty that last year was nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film at the Oscars, with ‘Licorice Pizza’.
The return of PTA to record in Bahia would not be any great novelty for Pelô, after all, the historical site has always been a location for large productions: in the mid-70s, for example, three films based on the books of Jorge Amado were being shot at the same time, there, under the batons of Bruno Barreto (‘Dona Flor Seus Dois Maridos’), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (‘Tenda dos Milagres’) and the French. There are even reports of confusion among film crews.
But while his Paulo does not come to fulfill his commitment to the city (as well as Spike Lee, who 10 years ago recorded a documentary about Brazil, focusing on Bahia, and so far has not left), he must tell how Paulinho reported his first steps as a filmmaker.
In the report entitled ‘Cineasta divided between films and games of chance’, Neyse reveals where the initial capital for PTA came from making his first short, already accrediting himself as one of the most promising directors of his generation.
“The $13,000 in savings the Anderson family had deposited in a California bank in 1992 had a more than defined destination: paying for his first two years of son Paul’s college. Not always, however, things are as parents imagine, and one fine day Little Paul suggested that they give him money so that he could invest everything in his first film.
“Beyond the wooden face, Paul brought with him his own savings: $2,000 sweaty plus a sizable $7,000 in earnings from the dice at a Las Vegas casino. And despite the mommy protests, daddy couldn't say no. Who tells this story is Paul Anderson himself, accommodated at one of the Victoria Marina tables, while drinking a cup of black and steaming coffee and lighting up a Hollywood cigarette.
The journalist also reports that the “slean kitty of 23 years, with glasses of degree and skateboardist hair” is a “romantic aficionado by gambling”, and also came from his breadwinner, at the time, as he himself admitted.
“For about a year, while waiting for the budget of ‘Sydney’, he lives exclusively at the expense of the casinos of Las Vegas and Reno, where he plays crabs regularly to maintain single life in a Los Angeles apartment. “Bearing is almost as intense an emotion as filming,” he says. The risk, however, seems to be calculated. “You can’t dribble your luck, but at least you may not be an idiot when you bet,” revealed the titer, who had the main tactic to bet little and stay in the game only while she averaged $35 an hour. “It’s what you get in the best unskilled jobs and that’s what’s enough for me.”
That's enough, Mr. Ghosting, may his ghost plot in Bahia become reality. By the way, I tried to collect The debt with PTA, but I didn't even contact with the agent I did. I'll keep trying, but if they find him taking a little child or smoking something around, silly, refresh his memory.
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