I think it's fine to anticipate Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

Willis steals this.

not much to sell though

Dunno. The beer scene was super.

Also: Norton.

idly curious how they got away with showing two obviously way underage actors engaged in nominally sexual activity... aren't there laws against this kind of thing? like, they couldn't show Kristen Stewart and whatsername kissing in that Runaways movie but somehow this was different/acceptable...?

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:30 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? they don't do much onscreen. i am kind of amazed though that nobody has taken it upon themselves to be professionally outraged by this depiction of pubescent romance. then again "indie" movies seem to fly below those folks' radar, hence people get upset over little things in blockbuster films but films by todd solondz or gregg araki don't generate much controversy.

well I'm not outraged or anything, I just don't understand the laws/regulations that would allow two underage teens to be shown making out in one movie but not in another - like, what weird arbitrary rules are in effect here.

what rules are those?

teen laws

to be fair to the (barf) MPAA, the runaways scene was probably more lascivious.

"What Happens in Indie..."

i think kids are still allowed to kiss

teen laws

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first rule of etc.

Did the MPAA really say that the Fanning-Stewart kiss=NC-17 rating? If not, I figure either Fanning's or Stew's people put the kibosh on the scene.

As for Moonrise..., I was kinda surprised they played a fairly extended scene in their undies. I also recall some folks around me gasping between laughs during the slow dance bit with Suzy telling telling Sam "They'll get bigger" re:her breasts and then particularly "It's hard" which probably wasn't about the ground beneath their feet.

I don't think it's a ratings thing, it's a "you will be charged with child pornography" thing iirc.

Fanning had a parent on-set iirc

I watched leon earlier this year and that was def p uncomfortable at times, a sign of a different era

just saw this. it wasn't good. but it was interesting. i've never felt so implicated in a movie, and i spent a lot of time working on movies.

1) some scenes filmed at the horrible camp i attended (and have blabbed about pretty extensively). my old cabin the was the one in which WA showed the kid jumping on the trampoline.

2) some scenes filmed on the land trust my mom maintains (the field/windmill)

3) some scenes filmed in the church on the island where my father used to be a minister.

4)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7710012476_62ec191eb8.jpg

vs

http://losmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jared-gilman-as-sam-in-moonrise-kingdom-2012.jpg

are you saying that's you with the glasses in the first pic?

there's definitely some things to like about this movie. it's not great, but its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums

That's me in the first pic in the location where the movie was filmed

Fuck, I can't remember if there was a montage in this or not!

correspondence montage

its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums

f u

Nothin wrong w/ this at all, prob his 3rd-best behind Rushmore and Fox.

didn't even notice he was sneaking daddy issues in w/ Bruce Willis til he got there.

Pre-teen got dragged out of theater by parent after the breast fondle, shrilly asking "Did it get INAPPROPRIATE?!"

hahahaha

parent prob just worried about Francoise Hardy exposure

"She's singing in French! Who knows what filth is in there!"

This was great, good story, good characters, good film-making. Excessively twee and stylized in some places, but it's full of Zeitgeisty signifiers that you sort of always felt like Anderson should do, and he does them well. I like the long zoom he uses in lots of places. Feels very French New Wave when it's not being Wes Anderson Wave.

Also, I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.

Pretty much all of the actors are good in this imho.

I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.

that would be a benjamin britten opera

The two leads gave very effective and dynamic performances. Maybe people describe the acting as monotone because usually child actors are the opposite of subtle. I thought it was a realistic portrayal of depression/angst that was deep yet not overly cynical or self-obsessed.

the Britten sequence (as noted earlier in this thread) is heavily inspired by John Duigan's Flirting

which seems to be Anderson's Urtext

I'm real glad Hank Williams is making a comeback (again) btw.

Hank was a lot more palatable than the usual 60s pop

Hold on wait, I enjoyed this film a lot. Are you all recommending I should watch Flirting? Is it like an australian MK?

No, but you should see it anyway.

Nothin wrong w/ this at all, prob his 3rd-best behind Rushmore and Fox.

A rare instance where a Morbs movie proclamation gets an unqualified OTM from me.

I congratulated myself for recognizing the Chief Joseph quote the boy cries before getting lightninged, tho that's mainly due to this TV movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073138/

Delightful, one of the two Anderson pics that has really resonated with me (the other is Life Aquatic, controversially).

get him everyone!

lol

Are you all recommending I should watch Flirting? Is it like an australian MK?

I watched this recently based on the references in this thread and it is great, you should see it. It bears only a tangential relation to MK, but Anderson has clearly borrowed from Flirting throughout his career.

good time to watch this movie.

I was a bit underwhelmed by this movie. It mostly looked pretty good. I just wish Anderson took as much interest in characters and stories as he does in set design and art direction. There were a couple of good visual gags (the tree house) and a few good lines (the bathtub scene: "You're just trying to hurt me" "Exactly"), but a lot of this was a slog for me. Anderson doesn't seem very interested in nature, except as a place to get away from other people, so I'm not sure this premise was a good fit for him. I agree with the comment upthread that the action scenes were really stiff. This also OTM, though I thought Schwartzman wasn't given much to work with:

Schwartzman also given the most classic Anderson schtick in the whole film - that assured importance in delivering protocol despite the circumstances not warranting such a serious approach.

The whole Khaki Scouts thing was like a boyhood fantasy of military pomp and pageantry. Anderson seems like an old-school Anglophile - the fascination with elaborate social codes and decorum. In addition to touchstones already mentioned (Peanuts, Pierrot Le Fou) I also saw elements of "Swiss Family Robinson", "A Christmas Story", and "James and the Giant Peach".

couldn't finish it. I'm impressed he's committed to his dioramas of white aristocracy thing even after Steely Dan tried to stage an intervention, but when he started taking the girl's clothes off and then bob balaban showed up to talk about the chocktaw that was more than enough of the pathology for me

honestly surprised so many people are still into his shtick, it's practically framed photos of puppies wearing ascots afaic

though i guess people are really hard up for anything that even hints at french new wave

I suspect fans love the sensation of submitting to an all-encompassing vision -- the guy knows exactly what he wants to say. As a guy who can only endure Rushmore and his cartoon foxes by way of Roald Dahl, I'm totally creeped out.

he reminds me of Woody Allen at his worst: in the same way that Allen thinks he's got a character because he cast Claire Bloom or Sam Waterston in the role, Anderson thinks giving Edward Norton a cigarette to pose with will by nature reward interest.

*becomes interested*