Pynchon is one of the most well-known of the postmodern novelists, embodying some of the most prevalent features of the literary era: name-checking commercial brand names as a critique of capitalism an emphasis on form over content and, most importantly, a mining of the past for devices to use in sometimes-anachronistic ways for a story, an aesthetic style called “pastiche.” Basically, postmodernists are uninterested in what any particular story “gets wrong” about a time period. (If a whiff of the term “postmodernism” makes you break out in hives, abandon ship now, because that's what we're about to talk about.) And that's not where the similarities end. Just as The Long Goodbye is based on a 1953 Raymond Chandler novel, Anderson's film is based on a Thomas Pynchon novel published in 2009. This is unsurprising-Anderson has long cited Altman as one of his influences and was an additional director on Altman's last film, A Prairie Home Companion. Inherent Vice is sunshine noir that strongly evokes Robert Altman's 1973 The Long Goodbye, in which a hapless California detective isn't totally amazing at his job and seems to squint at the sun and get distracted a lot. Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in 'Inherent Vice'
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