Continuity mistake: In the scene where Joaquin Phoenix's character is walking between a heavily wood-paneled wall and a window and banging on them: The first time he bangs on the paneling, one of the panels appears to split and swivel up showing white underneath. The camera briefly changes angles. When the camera returns to Joaquin Phoenix, the split panel is fixed.
The Master (2012)
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, Mike Howard, Price Carson, Sarah Shoshana David
Genres: Drama
Continuity mistake: In the scene in the desert when they dig up a wooden box with the Master's writings in it, the box is seen as being in the shade, then the sun, then back in the shade when viewed from different angles.
Lancaster Dodd: What a horrible young man you are. This is acting like an animal. A dirty animal that eats it's own faeces when hungry.
Lancaster Dodd: If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
Freddie Quell: What do you do?
Lancaster Dodd: I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.
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