Boogie Nights - Screenplay

For this assignment I read the screenplay of Boogie Nights by Tomas Anderson.   I hadn't seen this movie since the late 90s so even though I had a familiar memory of the movie.  While reading the script the first thing that came to mind was how much depth was to each character.  Each character has a social taboo that both strengthens and limits their lives and lifestyles.   The mother who looses her child, Frank the porno director who acts as a threshold guardian for both his family and peers, or works in porno, yet is obsessed with the fact that his wife is acting.

Each character has the goal of obtaining something, whether drugs, sex or even their own identity.   We take this and identify with each character in a deep sense, which is something you dont generally connect to in a movie about porn and drugs.

Frank feels like a father figure to his porno family and is the threshold guardian to Dirk.   Its an interesting concept to think of a porno director whose main focus is to put story ( something completely not required for the completion of the final product)  to porno.  He films his family in intercourse, which of course would be taboo, but leads Dirk whom left a shattered family to join frank, is actually a boon to growth.

As far as changing the screenplay, honestly I feel it was a masterpiece of written drama and comedy.  I completely related to all the characters and feel that their development was exotically executed .