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First Look: 'The Master' theatrical trailer showcases Oscar champ Philip Seymour Hoffman

By Gold Derby News Desk

Jul 20 2012 07:43 am

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The two teasers for "The Master" focused on Joaquin Phoenix and his character Freddie Sutton's days as a drifter. However, the new theatrical trailer for this Paul Thomas Anderson picture gives us a longer look at Oscar champ Philip Seymour Hoffman as the title character, Lancaster Dodd, and three-time nominee Amy Adams as Mary Sue, his dutiful wife.

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All the talent, including Anderson, is making a strong showing in our early Oscar handicapping. And the film, due out Oct. 12, is in a close race with Steven Spielberg's biopic "Lincoln" for Best Picture. 

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The parallels of Dodd to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard are pronounced. As Dodd says to Sutton, "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you." Hubbard often introduced himself in similar fashion. 

And Adams bears a strong resemblance to Hubbard's third wife, also named Mary Sue. She is wary of Sutton, who becomes the indispensable right-hand man to Dodd as he launches his new religion. 

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