But I will agree with Huang that The Master certainly has traits of Malick's best work, while it is more grounded and less free-wheeling than TM's latest (it was sort of in-between, kind of the way Days of Heaven was the bridgeway from BL to TM's later stuff).Anyway, if anything PTA is a conglomerate of all of the best traits of his mentors, which Kubrick, Scorsese, and Malick all are, and he is