I'm not a fan of Inherent Vice much but it will inspire lots of fun fan art and/or official stuff... like this banner poster starring Katherine Waterston as "Shasta Fay". (Her hair is filled with secrets characters.)
I wish P.T. still wrote memorable female characters (sigh) even the kind of vacant bimbos like Rollergirl used to be awesome. With There Will Be Blood he basically left them behind altogether. Inherent Vice has a dozen or so female roles and only two of them are halfway interesting (Yay, Jena Malone and Jeannie Berlin cameos).
Uh-oh... I feel a list attack coming on. It can't be stopped
Female Characters in P.T. Anderson films from Most Fascinating to Least
(not comprehensive but the major ones)
- Amber Waves (Boogie Nights)
- Linda Partridge (Magnolia)
- Rollergirl (Boogie Nights)
- Gwenovier (Magnolia)
- Lena Leonard (Punch-Drunk Love)
- Peggy Dodd (The Master)
- Clementine (Hard Eight)
- Jessie St Vincent (Boogie Nights)
- Becky Barnett (Boogie Nights)
- Elizabeth Egan (Punch-Drunk Love)
- Claudia Wilson Gator (Magnolia)
- Hope Harlingen (Inherent Vice -cameo)
- Aunt Reet (Inherent Vice - cameo)
- Rose Gator (Magnolia)
- Xandra (Inherent Vice)
- Helen Sullivan (The Master)
- Petunia Leeway (Inherent Vice)
- Penny (Inherent Vice)
- Japonica Fenway (Inherent Vice)
- Sortilege (Inherent Vice - great voice that Joanna Newsom has, though)
- Shasta Fay Hepworth (Inherent Vice)