Along the way, Bigfoot Bjornsen’s more official, LAPD involvement with the case coasts alongside Doc’s.
It’s a paranoid investigation in a narrative which delicately toes the line of magical realism, revealing an untold number of plot thread tributaries that all, through mere coincidence (or not?), feed their way back to one Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts), the Golden Fang drug enterprise and Doc’s ex-old lady, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston). And other times, Bigfoot is planting heroin on Doc.īut the latter becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine plot to involuntarily commit a real estate mogul to a mental rehab facility. Sometimes, they’re a couple of old friends who like to razz each other sometimes, they’re collaborative colleagues other times, they’re the stereotypical hippie/cop adversaries. It’s a relationship that’s constantly changing. He’s the law-abiding foil to Joaquin Phoenix’s spacy stoner private eye, but the relationship between the two men is complicated, long-standing and purposefully vague. Before we’ve even met Bigfoot Bjornsen, we understand that he’s something of a joke.Īmong an ensemble cast populated by a who’s who of A-listers-each, in their own way, perfectly filling roles lovingly adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel-Josh Brolin stands out in Inherent Vice. The first time we see him, he’s the hippie caricature spokesman advertising retail tycoon Mickey Wolfmann’s Channel View Estates, already undercutting the image of straight-world presentability that he’d rather we have as our first impression.
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He picks up bit parts as extras in TV shows and commercials, carving out his own little niche in the world of entertainment that he spends most of his days patrolling to maintain law and order. Bigfoot himself had sported a comical afro wig and donned the sort of attire worn by those whom he has grown accustomed to harassing with no probable cause other than showing a little “peace, love and understanding.” You see, on the side, flat-topped “hippie-hating mad dog” Detective Bigfoot is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. No, that came just a few scenes prior, when Bigfoot could be seen on Doc’s television screen while Doc permed his hair and rolled a joint. Which is why the latter greets the former-who has only just returned to consciousness, finding himself reclined next to the dead body of the man he was searching for-with a less-than-professional “Congratulations hippie scum, and welcome to a world of inconvenience.”īut this wasn’t Bigfoot’s official introduction in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. Bigfoot, nearly indistinguishable from the street cops beside him at this distance from the camera, leans against one of the cop cars with the kind of smug self-assuredness that signals he’s got the man that he was always looking for, if not the man who actually perpetrated the crime. They’ve swarmed the homicide crime scene at which poor private detective Larry “Doc” Sportello has been planted as a hapless scapegoat, his habitually marijuana-clogged brain enough justification to pin a clear target on his back. He’s flanked on all sides by a brigade of L.A.’s finest, an interlocking row of cars and men bordering the shot’s horizon line from either end of the frame.
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