haracters. The Valley environment is particularly significant to ôBoogie Nightsö since during the 1970s and early 1980s the porn film industry was basically located there. Anderson drew on his own youth in writing the movie. His father, actor/TV host Ernie Anderson, had one of the first VCRs in his neighborhood and the young Anderson found many porno movies while rummaging through his fatherÆs tape collection. ôI was watching porno from age 10 to 17. I had an interest in itö (Biography for Paul Thomas Anderson). That interest eventually led to the nearly two and one-half hour ôBoogie Nights,ö a movie that enabled Anderson to realize the potential for filmmaking he had displayed in ôHard Eight.ö Another characteristic of Anderson films is to use many of the same actors, and Philip Baker Hall and John C. Reilly, the main characters of ôHard Eight,ö were cast in ôBoogie Nights.ö AndersonÆs use of the same actors and of ensemble cases earned him comparisons with Robert Altman. Anderson can also be compared with Woody Allen in terms of the com
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