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How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood’s other wunderkinds.

December 24, 2007

How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood’s other wunderkinds.
It’s only fitting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakthrough film, Boogie Nights, was the story of a triple-X superstar with a python in his pants. This is one director you could safely call a size freakā€”or, to put it more politely, a maximalist. The gushers of oil in his new film, There Will Be Blood, are an apt visualization of how all his films function: They’re designed to erupt and spill over. The larger the canvas, the grander the theme, the higher the volume, the wilder the emotion, the…

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