Wes Anderson is a critically acclaimed American art director whose distinctive style has made him a well-recognized auteur. His films include Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). The stylistic and themal connections across his work makes his films distinguishable and iconic. With a recurring cast of actors
Rushmore, released in 1999, was director Wes Anderson’s second major film release as well as his breakthrough forever changing the world of American indie cinema. With an impressive repertoire of seven full length films in a span of only fifteen years he has become a major contender in modern American cinema with well received films such as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited. A director who polarizes both movie-goers and film critics alike, Anderson is notorious for his meticulous attention
Wes Anderson-y-ness For years independent film directors have been working outside the Hollywood system to create unique films with an independent feel that cost a fraction of the typical Hollywood film budget. Wes Anderson is one such film director who is known for his quirky and humorous films. His style is marked by colorful scenes that seem to pop right out of a storybook. In recent years Anderson has become widely regarded as a filmmaker who has succeeded in setting himself apart from the directorial
This essay explores Wes Anderson as an auteur director and how race and class are dealt with in his work. The narrative and unique hybrid genre of Rushmore will also be discussed. Wes Anderson is an auteur as he has creative authority over his projects and his a hyphenate (he directs and writes all of his films). Additionally, he is constant in his visual approach. Anderson’s second movie, Rushmore, has his signature symmetrical and wide angle shots throughout. One of his distinctive slow motion
Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited follows the journey of three brothers – Frances, Peter, and Jack – as they travel across India, hoping to bond after the death of their father. At the end of the film, after finding their mother in a convent in the foothills of the Himalayas, the brothers leave India having come to terms with their father’s death. Anderson’s film is saturated with Buddhist themes of acceptance, as well as a self-deprecating irony. His meticulously crafted scenes rife with symbols
Wes Anderson Nostalgia Wes Anderson is a highly revered director of many notable films including but not limited to, The Royal Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr. Fox. These films (and other’s by Anderson) display some of the same archetypal characters, not by coincidence. In these films one will notice that both of the father figures are figuratively absent. The audience will also notice that there is one son that desires his father’s approval while another young character gets the fathers attention and
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), a comedy-drama directed by Wes Anderson happens to be a very engrossing movie. Not only because it has an amazing plot, cinematography, appealing characters, sound and a host of other stylistic elements but most importantly, the repetition of these elements (such as props, costumes, sound) with some significance which then become motifs. In the words of Bordwell and Thompson (2013, p.63), “a motif is any significant repeated element that contributes to the overall form
by a group of children engaging in sexual games, which in turn creates humans in the world state that place no value in emotions, relationships or fascinations. They supress their feelings by taking what can be described as opium, called soma. Next we hear one
In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the World State is seen as a stable utopian society for those who live in it, however the society is not actually stable as the lives of some of the main characters of the novel such as Lenina Crowne, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson completely violate the rules of stability that the society established. During a conversation Mustapha Mond, one of the World controllers states, ¨People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they
To be an outcast and separate oneself from society can be a difficult thing to do, especially in a situation where that isn’t the norm. Bernard Marx and Christopher Boone however, both find themselves isolated from the community around them. Whether they have control over that situation or not, these characters face difficulties with the reality they’re living in. While Bernard may have been given the unfortunate disadvantage during the birthing process, his actions further separate him from his