| Posted by: Raoul Duke at February 3, 2008, 1:56 pm | | Topic: wes anderson is a character of his own movies Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by The Heart Collector I think the main reason why people say he's treading ground is because of Life Aquatic. It was advertised as an adventure thing, had all these adventure qualities to it, but it was more like a traditional Wes Anderson comedy/drama in a weird setting. His other movies feel like they're the only thing they could possibly be. While I enjoyed The Life Aquatic immensely, I felt that he could have also done something different, added a little bit more action, made it a little more fantastic. He had the claymation creatures, for example, but they hardly figured in the movie. He had a lot of cool gadgets in the ship, but they hardly figured. In a way it felt like Wes Anderson was afraid of doing a straight-up action/adventure film. I mean, it seems silly to spend that insane budget to have all those things as mere backdrop and have relatively weak action (the ship scene, the island scene, the somewhat anticlimactic shark discovery). He even admitted that even though the movie came out to be what he wanted, he regretted spending all that money. Did you see Darjeeling Limited? It of course had the usual Anderson quirks/whatever. But it felt quite a bit different. There were moments in it that surprised me..out of character for his usual movies. |
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