Anderson doesn't have a filter that he applies to existing corporate properties once a year
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Burton is a shitty director but writing your own material can be as inhibiting as using Hollywood rent-a-scripts.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Recycling? I dunno. He uses a lot of the same sort of imagery, and of course many of the same actors, but if you distilled each of his movies down to a sentence or two, you couldn't possibly come up with a weirder bunch of stories.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
for all my issues with modern-day wes anderson there's no comparison bw what he does and tim burton's alice in wonderland type garbage
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
MK is just as garish and mannered.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Garish?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'll give you mannered.
yeah i'm gonna say... no on that one.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
No, he's refining himself in splendid fashion, Alfred. His last two films eclipse everything but Rushmore.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose he gets points for creating his own lurid tropes instead of buying them readymade but like croup said upthread I'm done with him unless he gets Clooney to play another wry fox.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
i think i'll give him garish, just with 70's curtain and cushion fabric as opposed to matte foundation and shitty hairdye
― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Whit Stillman is a better example of a guy refining himself in splendid fashion.
they might be on a continuum of manneredness or garishness, but that doesn't make them the same.
the idea that he's reinventing himself is a bit of a joke though. he's just drilling down.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
we are forgetting that wes anderson has wes anderson'd up a roald dahl property
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
ha.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
At the essence below his love of British sixties pop and colorful clothes are...a love of Francoise Hardy and people holding cigarettes in mannerist poses.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
i agree that burton is way way worse, espec once he turned into the ed wood of CGI.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
i def don't want to make it sound like i wish wes anderson would prove us all wrong by making a planet of the apes movie
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
interesting that both wes and tim's debut movies heavily involve texas, which you wouldn't expect from their later work
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but look how well he did with a Planet of the Foxes movie.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
"make me a daiquiri, koko. the way they do down south."
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is so much better and better fleshed out than Dahl's.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Dahl's book ends in medias res, with the farmer's waiting for the foxes to come. "And there they wait, still, to this very day" or something like that. I have a weird suspicious that dictated every one of his stories in real time, just making shit up as he went along, flow be damned.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
which Burton movie should Anderson remake
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Pee Wee.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Big Fish."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Edward Cigarettehands
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
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there's more of it alright. That doesn't make it better
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'll grant Anderson: more directors should follow his lead and make 80- and 90-minute fillums.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
ugh ugh no no nothing worse than 'experts' coming in and retooling a genuinely magical work so that it 'fits; whatever standard identikit they learned in media/film.whatever school- even if i like fantastio mr fox, the fact that anderson ran with (the very burtonesque) "this is now autobiographical" angle for it only worked out by dumb luck imo- it is in no way one of the better things about the movie.
― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
what's the autobiographical angle?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
alienated precocious teen fox anderson
― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
I have to represent my home town and point out that Rushmore also takes place in Texas--specifically Houston.
― ryan, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think it actually "takes place" there. Shot there maybe
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
How many of you have actual read "Mr. Fox" lately and are not just fondly remembering it from childhood? I read it all the time with my daughter, and trust me, all the important stuff is in the movie. Movie works better because it is not entirely faithful, which is why movie versions of "The Witches" and "Matilda" don't work. Those books are a narrative mess.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Thats true, Number. Though it captures how Houston feels in the winter extremely well so it always feels like a "Houston" movie to me.
― ryan, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I would hardly consider Anderson's "Mr. Fox" identikit in any sense.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRoLgBE9AOs
he has talked about going back to Texas to do a western with Owen Wilson recently. Might be hard to escape the shadow of Shanghai Noon though
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
I love "Fox" and how it toys with anthropomorphized animals accepting their subsumed animalness. Don't think I would like an Anderson western.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
see? he should reboot that!
xpost
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Jackie Chan would probably become a lot more inscrutable
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Jackie Chan would be played by Bill Murray.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
as for your previous question Josh, i haven't read the book recently but in my mind it wasn't a story that desperately needed fleshing out. It's kind of a fable. Most people seemed to like the movie more than me though
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bruce Willis would play Wilson.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
xpost You'd be shocked, maybe, by how little there is to the "Fox" book.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Dahl always had the slighter stuff in between the big classics. You'd have to add a load of stuff to The Twits to turn it into a movie but you'd more than likely lose something in the process
― Number None, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Sure, but "The Twits" has this tit for tat rhythm going on. "Fox" is just weirdly incomplete. "Matilda," on the other hand, has too much, an example of a great story almost totally unhinged by his erratic narrative. It's a great book about a smart lonely girl sent to a strict school with only a single kind teacher as parent figure, and then ... out of nowhere he gives her "Carrie"-like telekinetic powers! Much of "The Witches" is just a long description of what witches are, followed by a showdown. "BFG" may be his most solid, followed by "Charlie." Even "James and the Giant Peach" was more slight than I remembered it. "Danny and the Magic Finger" truly reads like it was spontaneously dictated in one sit.
Still love Dahl, though. It's a testament to his gifts that his stories and characters transcend the books that contain then!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Anderson doesn't have a filter that he applies to existing corporate properties once a year"
His commercials are good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spCknVcaSHg
self-parodying wes anderson has way more spirit than wes anderson wes anderson.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link