10 Great Movies With Drastic Mid-Film Tonal Shifts

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In an interview shortly after Boogie Nights was released, Paul Thomas Anderson was questioned about the film’s “tone shifts” between “dramatic and comic/parodic.” He responded, “Two of my favorite movies are F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise and Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, what I call gearshift movies, that can change tones [snaps fingers] like that. I like to […]