There are several things that the teaser trailer for P.T. Anderson‘s The Master confirms:
1) The movie is titled The Master after all
2) The movie is not a western
Both 1 and 2 were in doubt when a report leaked from Cannes last year that suggested what we originally thought was a movie that was a thinly-veiled parallel to the rise of the controversial religion of Scientology was instead a western, and though this new trailer from this year’s Cannes doesn’t show us much it seems like that report was false and it is what we thought it was all along (got it?). In the teaser we see Joaquin Phoenix doing his best imitation of a troubled soul (of course, knowing Phoenix this might not be an imitation) that seems to lay the groundwork into Phoenix’s character’s entrance to a cult-like religion.
The Master stars Anderson favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Lena Endre (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and Laura Dern (Jurassic Park). The film has recently been bumped from a 2013 release to an October 12, 2012 release. Check out the teaser and the official blurb below:
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Thomas Anderson (the acclaimed director of There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Boogie Nights), this story stars Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and Academy Award-nominee Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line). Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual (Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter (Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor. A truly one-of-a-kind drama, which promises magnetic virtuoso performances, the film marks the fifth collaboration between Anderson and Hoffman, following Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love.
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