r/wesanderson

Obviously this isn’t the end of his career, but I figured since he has twelve feature films under his belt, and they can be neatly divided into groups of four across his three decade career, this would be an interesting question to pose.

Overall I’m partial to his early work and his first four films but I’m sure others could make a strong case for his middle and even later period.

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So I’m planning on attending and have already gotten my reservation tickets for the Criterion Cinema. Apparently it’s their first time ever doing this so does anyone have any guesses on what it could be? Kinda excited for this ngl.

Also where do yall suggest parking at? 🤔

My 5 favorite Wes Anderson movies are:

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Rushmore
3. The Royal Tenebaums
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Bottle Rocket

Which one of these would you pick and should’ve give it to Best Picture? I pick The Grand Budapest Hotel.

I just heard the song Paper Chase by Richard Harris and that's my nomination: https://youtu.be/mSxxg\_wdIRs?is=h0v98Purmt3qrhNQ

Would appreciate it if you checked it out.

Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-nine-muses-for-albion/

I’m sure this has been discussed a few times,
but what superhero or franchise do you think wes’s style would work with? I personally think a polka dot man movie with his brother sisters and evil mother sounds right up his alley!

This is a thought I've had for a wee while. Even though it isn't precedented in his existing filmography, I feel like I'm perpetually waiting for the day that Wes Anderson decides to experiment with horror. I just have a general instinct he would excell with it in a way which might surprise general audiences who have developed a particular view of his work.

Specifically, I would perform actual literal blood sacrifices to induce a Wes Anderson adaptation of, for example, At The Mountains Of Madness. The reasons why the works of Lovecraft are notoriously resistant to adaptation all seem to lean into unique strengths which Anderson has cultivated over the course of his career. Purple prose, a reliance on monolithic imagery, protagonists of a particularly dry academic temperament, these things would get in the way of literally anybody else.

Especially with how he blended live action and stop motion in Asteroid City... idk to some extent this is a wild instinct as he hasn't really touched the horror genre at all to date (unless I'm somehow unaware of a time when he did, let me know if so) but it really feels like a match made in heaven.

He can definitely provoke feelings of dread when he wants to, and I can only feel that the way he'd approach non-euclidean escherian architecture, or animating Horrors like the Dread Shoggoth interposed over live-action footage, would if nothing else be deeply fascinating.

Even if he didn't end up literally adapting Lovecraft (not that he's above adaptation, mind you) I'd kill to see him do work in this general genre. Hell, original work would probably be preferable, but I also can't think of another director who's style is better suited to adapting Lovecraft specifically.

was not expecting bill murray to be in a serious movie.

i love the movie. i love mr. fox. i think it’s one of the most characters ever written and there’s so much you can dissect, and it always feels like there’s yet more to explore.

i always think of mr. fox as being torn between the life he has made and his “wild side”, but he isn’t willing to embrace either completely. he wants more and more, and uses either his domesticity (i don’t want to live in a hole anymore it makes me feel poor, but foxes do live in holes) or his wilderness (im a wild animal, that’s why i steal) for his benefit. he isn’t either and he is both, and his feeling of dissatisfaction comes that. it’s also because if he wants to be fantastic, he wants to be seen only as the best, and if he falls short of it at all, he ‘doesn’t feel good about himself’. i think it’s this portrait of a deeply dissatisfied individual, who learns to be content. he is ultimately okay with being neither here nor there. and there is beauty in that. but obviously, it’s bittersweet. it isn’t exactly a win.

how do you read the character?

also, i know many people (myself included) who use ‘i don’t want to live in a hole anymore) to more themselves. but in the story, it’s actually just a rather sad indictment of that dissatisfaction. i’m curious to know what other people think of that line.

I made a massive mistake and bought tickets for the wrong day.

July 10th, 8PM (doors at 6PM)

$65 each, J2 row 10, seats 21 and 23.

Please dm me if interested!

Hey, anybody know if there are any plans for a book on the Dahl shorts?

Thanks.