New The Master Trailer is Latest in Deliberate Viral Campaign

The viral campaign for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master continues to suck us into its glacial-paced vortex.

A new clip for the film, "Hopelessly Inquisitive," debuted today, the latest in a meditative rollout for PTA's sort-of, maybe take on Scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard. The clip gives us our first look at Philip Seymour Hoffman as Hubbard stand-in Lancaster Dodd, a self-described "writer, doctor, nuclear physicist (and) theoretical philosopher", as he begins his mentorship of the wayward Freddie Sutton, played by Joaquin Phoenix.

The Master first started turning heads in May of last year when a teaser poster appeared at Cannes that featured a shadowy figure at dusk with a…
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