A precursor to PTA's ''The Master''

Watching this I couldn't help but be reminded of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. Stylistically they are wildly different, but thematically they have striking parallels. Both deal with uncontrollable, near-feral, Dionysian men (Boudu and Freddie) who come into the lives of very rigid, "made" men bound by convention (M. Lestingois and Lancaster Dodd). In both cases, the Ids represented by Boudu and Freddie test the very foundations of the Egos they encounter, turning their worlds upside down and altering, for a moment, their perception of reality. Of course, neither Boudu nor Freddie can stay in these bourgeois worlds, as they are drifters whose natures allow them only to be sovereign and chaotic, freed from the constraints of social order and left to wander, eternally, on the outskirts of life's currents. I wonder if Anderson or any of his cast or crew saw this film and used it as inspiration.