Do you think Wes Anderson needs to change it up?
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thetuffpuff — 11 years ago(July 05, 2014 11:35 PM)
That immediately identifiable quirk is the genius of Wes Anderson. In the same way that unifentifiable-ness is the genius of Stev5b4en Soderbergh.
What is identifiable (and cherished) with Anderson's work is the style, the aesthetic, the wit. However it works because the STORIES are always different. -
jamasian_man — 11 years ago(December 16, 2014 02:25 PM)
We've seen him move around with Fantastic Mr. Fox. It has that Wes Anderson charm yet its for children.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was a different change of pace, with more melancholy and less whimsy.
Do you want him to try something drastically different? Like a horror film or a action movie? -
tanncord — 10 years ago(May 09, 2015 09:12 PM)
I think he should cut his hair. The "Prince Valiant" bob is getting old. He's a hot guy and shorter hair looks nice on him.
As for his movies - yes, keep on branching out, Wes. He does too much "quirky for quirky's sake". I loved the idea of b68Grand Budapest Hotel but it was a mess except for Ralph, who was amazing. F. Murray Abraham was very good, too. The rest - too silly, too overdone.
And the Woody Allen esque stammering - it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. Egad. I cannot stand the constant stammering. Wes doesn't have a speech impediment; he needs to plan out what he's going to say in commentary or interviews. -
ztate84 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 06:55 AM)
I highly respect Wes Anderson.
To me, he has beaten Spielberg for the title of auteur, as he writes his own screenplays and is just as visually interesting with his colors, camera angles, and stop motion camera effects.
I love his choice of music in each film, especially Search and Destroy by Iggy and the Stooges when Bill Murray fights off the pirates in Life Aquatic.
But like everybody else, I wish he wo2000uld grow as a filmmaker and step out of his comfort zone of underdogs teaming up with father figures to go off on some nutty adventure lol.
I like the satire of how he makes kids seem more mature than adults, it's funny. But at the same time it's getting old.
Uniforms play an important part in his films too, ever since Owen Wilson dressed up like a lil banana in Bottle Rocket. I always liked that, anyone else. -
bryanlitt — 10 years ago(July 24, 2015 06:44 PM)
I loved his earlier films, but feel that he's gotten more and more stylized at the expense of believable, relatable, sympathetic characters that I really care about. For me Royal Tenenbaums was the peak. He has grown since then visually, but I haven't been nearly as interested in the stories or characters.
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TwoThousandOneMark — 10 years ago(January 20, 2016 11:34 PM)
I'd say he has
changed it up
several times.
Bottle Rocket stands alone.
Rushmore & Royal Tenenbaums are companioned.
Life Aquatic & Darjeeling share some dna.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is it's own.
Moonrise & Budapest share a few lanes entirely unique from his others- larger scale, more fantasy driven.
top 50 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/ -
Iron_Giant — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 01:07 AM)
He's continually doing something new and bringing in new lead actors to the cast. Like a stop motion animated children's book adaptation starring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep, who he'd never worked with before. Or his first film with two adolescent leads, played by unknown actors, and supported by Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Edward Norton, who he'd never worked with before. Or a European period film with alternating aspect ratios, starring Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, and Saoirse Ronan, who he'd never worked with before.
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ztate84 — 9 years ago(August 17, 2016 02:08 PM)
I hear ya, Iron Giant, and you do make sense.
Aside from actors he's never worked with before, I just wish he would do something new and different. Fantastic Mr. Fox was that, no doubt about that
But I mean his stories/screenplays.
Like a movie that doesn't star an underdog who is looking for a surrogate son or father figure, and go through the same story-line parallels (post Life Aquatic)
Please don't get me wrong, I respect the man dearly.
I went to see Moonrise Kingdom by myself, but ended up joining my former guidance counselor (high school) and his wife who were seeing the same showtime as me.
My former GC and I found ourselves both out-laughing a majority of the audience, because a lot of them were ignorant and didn't get Wes Anderson's sense of humor. -
WiseKing — 9 years ago(August 26, 2016 04:28 PM)
Yes, it's time for him to change up his genre. Alfred Hitchcock was a man of pattern, but Alfred took on different genres with his staircases and appearing in every film of his own. Do horror, science fiction and etcDon't change style, just genres.
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ztate84 — 9 years ago(August 28, 2016 06:40 PM)
Yes, that's what I should have said before lol
Genre as well, because we all know that he can do it. He just needs to believe in himself more is all. The man is a genuis and he could make a sci fi film that could put Buckaroo Banzai to shame