Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love: Why PTA’s Most Personal Films Take Place in the Valley

Paul Thomas Anderson is in exclusive company. Not only for his incredible camera movement and character studies, but he's right up there with Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-Wai and Federico Fellini as filmmakers that love their cities. Born in the San Fernando Valley himself, PTA set a trilogy of wildly different films in the Los Angeles suburb with Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love. But how does a personal connection to the location translate to the screen? What does this mean to the characters he writes, and the visual style he creates?

From Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler and his search for parental figures in the porn industry with Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore amid some of the best long takes ever on film, to Tom Cruise in his Oscar Nominated turn as misogynist huckster Frank TJ Mackey and his relationship with his dying father with Magnolia's kinetic camera movement and blocking, to Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love living in the shadow of his overbearing sisters in overexposed North Valley warehouses, each of PTA's valley trilogy films leans on his own experience. And the Valley, his home, makes everything that much more personal.

This video was written by Siddhant Adlakha and edited by Clint Gage.

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