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Powered by the performances, this film shows a cult, its leader, and one doomed person's struggle. The story doesn't do spoonfeeding and keeps us wondering where would it lead us.
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Joaquin Phoenix
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Amy Adams
Laura Dern
Ambyr Childers
Rami Malek
Jesse Plemons
Kevin J. O'Connor
Christopher Evan Welch
The film's inspirations were varied: it was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, as well as by early drafts of Anderson's There Will Be Blood, the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon, drunken Navy stories that Jason Robards had told to Anderson as he was terminally ill while filming Magnolia, and the life story of author John Steinbeck. The Master was shot almost entirely on 65mm film stock, making it the first fiction feature to be shot and released in 70mm since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in 1996. Considered one of Anderson's finest works and one of the best films of the 2010s, it received three Oscar nominations: Best Actor for Phoenix, Best Supporting Actor for Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actress for Adams. In 2016, The Master was voted the 24th greatest film of the 21st century by 177 critics from around the world. Anderson has repeatedly stated that The Master is his favorite film of those he has made.
