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''Boogie Nights'' is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams, who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the '80s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film ''The Dirk Diggler Story'' (1988). ==Plot== In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home. Adams gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler", and becomes a star because of his good looks, youthful charisma and unusually large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe and a "competition orange" 1976 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. He and his friend, porn star Reed Rothchild, pitch and star in a series of successful action-themed porn films. Ostensibly, Dirk and the others he works and socializes with from the porn industry, are all living carefree lifestyles in the late 70s disco era. However, that changes at a New Year's Eve party at Horner's house marking the year 1980, when assistant director Little Bill Thompson discovers his porn star wife having sex with another man, shoots them with a gun and kills himself. Shortly afterward, Dirk and Reed begin using cocaine. Due to Dirk's habit, he finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection, falls into violent mood swings and becomes upset with Johnny Doe, as a new leading man that Jack recruited him. After having an argument with Jack during a film shoot, Dirk is fired by Jack, and he and Reed leave to pursue their dream of rock and roll stardom along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk. Jack previously rejected business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a "theater" magnate in San Diego and San Francisco, who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape, because Jack believes videotape will diminish the quality of his films. However, after his main source of funding, Colonel James, is imprisoned for child pornography, Jack begins working with Floyd, and subsequently becomes disillusioned with the lack of scripts and character development in the projects Gondolli expects him to churn out. One of these projects involves him and Rollergirl riding in a limousine, searching for random men for her to have sex with while a crew tapes it. When a man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high school classmate, he insults both her and Jack, who beat up and leave him bleeding and half-conscious on the street. Leading lady Amber Waves, who took Dirk under her wing when he joined Jack's stable of actors, finds herself in a custody battle with her former husband. The court determines she is an unfit mother, due to her involvement in the porn industry, prior criminal record and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who shortly thereafter becomes pregnant. Because of his past, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan which he needs to open his own stereo equipment store. That night after arriving at the donut shop, he finds himself in the middle of a holdup that the clerk, the robber and an armed customer are killed in the resulting shootout. Buck escapes with the money that the robber demanded. Meanwhile, Dirk and Reed have become addicted to cocaine. Having squandered their money on drugs, they are unable to pay a recording studio for the demo tapes they believe will enable them to become music stars. Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution, but he is assaulted and robbed by three men. Dirk, Reed and their friend Todd attempt to scam drug dealer Rahad Jackson by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda as the fake cocaine. Dirk and Reed wish to leave quickly before Rahad's bodyguard inspects the product, but Todd fails to steal money from Rahad who kills him in the ensuing gunfight. Frightened by his brush with death, Dirk reconciles with Jack. In 1984, Buck opens his own store and his son has been born, Amber shoots the TV commercial for Buck's store opening, Reed practices a successful magic act at a topless bar, Colonel James is the victim of beatings in prison and Rollergirl lives at home with Jack. Dirk and Amber prepare to start filming again. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boogie Nights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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