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I want to see the movie, but now I'm simultaneously intrigued by questions of what kind of a drug addled private eye smartass Joaquin Phoenix will make when the film finally comes out. So really, this just offers a whole new dimension to our anticipation for Inherent Vice. It's hard to believe Paul Thomas Anderson would cast him if he didn't know what he was doing. Maybe he can do it again, only this time as a smartass. Somehow, all he did was bend over and talk out of the side of his mouth, and he seemed like an entirely different human being. After I'm Still Here, everyone seemed mildly irritated by Phoenix, and yet he gave one of this year's best performances in The Master.

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go hand in hand, I imagine Joaquin Phoenix's take on how to make people laugh likely resembling the more nightmarish aspects of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Or perhaps Bumfights. Inherent Vice tells the story of Larry Doc Sportello ( Joaquin Phoenix ), a pot-smoking private investigator who’s approached by his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth ( Katherine Waterston. I'm assuming the role will call for comedy, but while comedy and Robert Downey Jr. always hovers around that kind of fictional persona.īut not anymore! Now Doc Sportello will be played by none other than Joaquin Phoenix, an actor I'm still nowhere near comprehending. That sounded just about perfect since even when playing genius billionaire playboy philanthropists, Robert Downey Jr.

as drug addled private eye Doc Sportello. Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice was originally supposed to star Robert Downey Jr.

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