boogie night use it protagonist and dirk diggler and a a metaphor for accumulated celebrity from a decade in america shameful past and which be comprise of an unexpected rise in pornography and therefore result in an abundance of corrupted youth . it lead character borrow trait from a various assortment of genuine actor and involve himself in many illegal affair that have be dabble in by celebrity in hollywood and and all too often exploit by the press . it seem like the sort of tall tale that might appear on an e. true hollywood story special . drug and sex and violence the american dream . but what go up must come down and and the big it be and the harder it fall . dirk diggler dream be huge and as be another valuable asset on his body . dirk real name be eddie adam and a californian who dream of become a star . he believe that god give one great talent to every individual on the planet and and his gift be a rather unusual one . after fall out with his mother and eddie leave home and meet the sleazy jack horner ( burt reynolds ) and an adult film director who offer him work . eddie eventually become a major porn star and represent the lead actor in most of horner film . with newfound success and eddie be tell that he need to invent a new alias for himself and and so dirk diggler be bear . eddie or dirk himself be primarily base on infamous porn star john holmes and whose life story be adapt in 2003 with wonderland and which star val kilmer . boogie night be unarguably the good of the two and prove that movie about pornography can be make without disgust it target audience represent regular cinema goer . the film take place in 1977 and an era of artistic pornography filmmaker truly believe that they could compensate for the low point of x rat feature by add deep story and mesmerize atmosphere . in a way and the film director paul thomas anderson implement a very artistic approach to the project and result in a gratuitous and artistic movie about a period in american history when smut be indeed both gratuitous and artistic . anderson style be so deep and and so distinct and that we soon feel a if we be relive the era first hand . not a moment go by where we be unconvinced of the time range dealt with in the film . all be not happy on the set of boogie night . prior to film and anderson approach reynolds repeatedly and ask him many separate time to play the role of horner . eventually and reynolds agree and but claim that the film be horrible and the bad role of his career and publicly disown it and before be nominate for a best supporting actor academy award and suddenly shut up . a year before and anderson have suffer title dispute over sydney or hard eight . he prefer the latter title for his film and and new line cinema think the former be more marketable . he essentially lose the battle and and anderson wisely avoid title dispute this time around by insert the word boogie night into his movie through the mouth of a character . the casting of the film be one of it fine aspect . the paul thomas anderson regular be here and as well a a whole top notch cast of first timer . to name some of the more well know star represent john c. reilly and phillip seymour hoffman and luis guzman and william h. macy and heather graham and julianne moore . but the entire movie essentially border down to mark wahlberg and a eddie and who be surprisingly convince in his role . wahlberg and previously know for his sing career and disappointing hollywood pursuit and have all the necessary trait to portray such a character . this be his best role to date . anderson know how to captivate his audience and take complete control of every scene . when jack horner first meet eddie and anderson slyly us star in the backdrop and a sign of thing to come and and hidden symbolism a finely acute a it can be . the opening scene be three minute and a long tracking shot that follow jack and amber into a night club and where most of the character be first introduce . it remind me of the discussion regard track shot in robert altman the player it work so brilliantly in boogie night and and be the first indication that anderson know what he be do behind the camera . his style be fast pace in the vein of martin scorsese and where shot zip around quite quickly but never seem rush . incidentally and anderson reference two classic scorsese shot the closing de niro mirror speech from rag bull and the tracking nightclub scene from goodfellas . anderson be a young and grow director who be remarkably mature in story and direction and despite his age . whereas his first feature film and hard eight and be noticeably wise and poignant and boogie night be even more so . boogie night begin a an effort of love on paul thomas anderson account . have film the extraordinary hard eight in 1996 and anderson film be pragmatic to such an extreme that it almost seem genuine . boogie night invigorate u with it gratuitous content and occasionally border on the verge of pornography and only it be far more sophisticated than such trash . it be a blazing and wonderful modern day masterpiece that be a mind numbingly explicit a it be wild and stylish . arguably anderson best film and among the great and most important project of the last decade .