Red Mosquito

Anders wrote:His style makes every other movie seem more real. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Coen brothers, who are also quirky, Lynch, who is weird, or popcorn Marvel movies, no one beats Wes Anderson in levels of fake.

Jorge wrote:

Malloy wrote:

Anders wrote:His style makes every other movie seem more real. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Coen brothers, who are also quirky, Lynch, who is weird, or popcorn Marvel movies, no one beats Wes Anderson in levels of fake.

realism is just one of many modes of representation in art. it’s no better or worse than any other — it simply has a different set of conventions.

put another way, all of this shit is fake, most of it is entrenched in an industrial system that is wildly removed from most realities, and the end result is a projection on a giant screen in a dark room

Anders wrote:No, I don’t think WA goes for realism, I said the opposite in the post above yours. But what he intends or goes for is not important, only the end product.

The Coen brothers have a similar vibe in that their characters can be quite quirky, the design and the world the movie inhabits can feel a step away from reality, but the Coen brothers are far superior filmmakers. They have more range, more humor, more drama, better stories. Anderson feels flat and similar from movie to movie.

The Argonaut wrote:"I'm over the whole Wes Anderson schtick" is a perfectly reasonable take.

tree_ wrote:I think maybe what Anders means is it doesn't feel real within itself. Wreck It Ralph's story and characters feel like they are consistent within the rules the movie created, while characters and events in WA movies might feel out of place even within their own worlds.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:"I'm over the whole Wes Anderson schtick" is a perfectly reasonable take.

Yeah I don’t have a problem with that, just trying to make sense of Anders’ take.

tragabigzanda wrote:I feel like Anders hasn’t clearly identified that his biggest issue with WA movies is that everyone has a flat emotional affect. Seems like that’s the bush he keeps beating around, but hasn’t explicitly said it.

The Argonaut wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:"I'm over the whole Wes Anderson schtick" is a perfectly reasonable take.

Yeah I don’t have a problem with that, just trying to make sense of Anders’ take.

Oh, I have no idea what Anders is trying to say, tbh. It's going over my head

tree_ wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I feel like Anders hasn’t clearly identified that his biggest issue with WA movies is that everyone has a flat emotional affect. Seems like that’s the bush he keeps beating around, but hasn’t explicitly said it.

Everything is flat, not just the characters