One Battle After Another
Short description
Bob Ferguson is a former radical living off-grid in Southern California with his daughter, Willa. Plagued by paranoia regarding his past involvement with a militant group, Bob finds his fears realized when a long-time enemy, Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, resurfaces after sixteen years. When Willa disappears, Bob must confront his history and reunite with old comrades to rescue her. The story is a modernized adaptation of the novel Vineland.
Directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson, this production is the fourteenth of 15 films in his career, following Wall of Eyes: On Film and preceding Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall. The film features a large ensemble with 104 credited cast members, led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor.
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and other companies, the movie had a budget of 175 million USD and earned 209 million USD at the worldwide box office. It has been well received by both professionals and the general public. It holds a critics' rating of 8.9/10 from 437 reviews, while audience ratings stand at 7.7/10 on IMDb from 357,000 votes and 7.3/10 on TMDB from 4,283 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place from January 21st to July 30th, 2024. The shooting process had to be interrupted for two and a half months due to actor Benicio del Toro's work on the film 'The Phoenician Scheme' from March to June.
- In a video released after the film's premiere, Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro discussed what would happen to their characters after the events depicted in the film. DiCaprio suggested that his character would continue performing with the band. Del Toro stated that a scene where his character returned to martial arts school was cut during editing, meaning his confrontation with law enforcement ended successfully.
- The car chase scenes at the end of the film were not included in the original script.
- Director, screenwriter, and producer Paul Thomas Anderson began working on the script about 20 years ago, planning an action film with numerous car chases; he took frequent breaks but returned to the unfinished screenplay every 2-3 years. In the early 2000s, he planned to film an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland" (1990), set in the 1960s, which led him to reflect on how the novel's ideas could be reimagined several decades later. At the same time, he conceived the idea of a female revolutionary protagonist. Eventually, Anderson decided to abandon the idea of a literal adaptation of the novel, but he kept the elements that particularly touched him and supplemented them with his own reflections.
- In one scene, Colonel Lockjoe runs his tongue over a comb before putting it to his hair. This is a reference to former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who prepared for television interviews in the exact same way, as revealed in the documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9".
- In an interview, Benicio del Toro stated that a scene in which his character returned to the martial arts school was cut during editing.
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