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The Morning GIF: The Master of expression

Director Paul Thomas Anderson makes faces at the Toronto International Film Festival.

 

Lorraine Murphy

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Posted on Sep 12, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 11:16 am CDT

Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or elsewhere on the Internet.

Aaaand … action!

Directors are generally assumed to be the least animated members of the junket team. In a celebusphere that includes such rubber-faced actors as Jennifer Lawrence and Jim Carrey, it is a rare director who can upstage his meat puppets.

Enter Paul Thomas Anderson.

At the Toronto International Film Festival, the director of The Master, the controversial L. Ron Hubbard docu-drama, was as animated as an adolescent in the five minutes before summer break. This GIF, on This Must Be The Place on Tumblr, has received 261 notes of approval for directors who are as emotionally and physically involved with their works as their actors are. Tom Cruise could not be reached for comment.

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*First Published: Sep 12, 2012, 8:25 am CDT