Watch: 8-Minute Video Essay Breaks Down The Drug Deal Sequence In Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Boogie Nights'

Every other Tuesday, Matt Marlin posts a new “Framing the Picture” video to his Vimeo channel. And last week, the astute student of cinema broke down the memorable, awkward, and tense botched drug deal scene from Paul Thomas Anderson’s low hanging, intoxicating, porn world classic, “Boogie Nights.”

As he regularly does, Marlin both edited and narrated the analysis, this episode of which is dubbed “Sound and Tension in Boogie Nights's Drug Deal Sequence.” He starts off with his thesis, that “one of Paul Thomas Anderson’s most effective maneuvers in this sprawling tale of the ‘70s and ‘80s is his use of sound; mainly, it serves as a tool for settings, and songs from the era play throughout. They’re diegetically, as characters from the scene put them on, or non-diegetically, as Anderson sees most appropriate.” Essentially, “the music of the time is a constant presence throughout.”

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However, Marlin...