| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at February 3, 2008, 5:21 pm | | Topic: wes anderson is a character of his own movies Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by MansooLee My take on the Life Aquatic is that it is all fake, the movie we see is the documentary he shows off. Everything is set up just to get the recognition back. There was no shark, there was no death, just a big ploy by Murray and Huston. I think that certain elements seemed kind of fake. Ultimately, I don't think there was no character development in Zissou, and the film was about him pulling a scam. If the movie we see is all a documentary, how exactly did they get that hidden camera to track through the boat like that with no one noticing? There are points in the movie, though, when what we see is as it is presented through Zissou's mind, indicated by overall change in color tone, namely when everything takes on a blue hint at the point when Zissou overtakes the pirates and then switching back.... I believe when Ned is wounded, but I haven't seen it in about a year. The only reason I remark on you theory, is because I think you are right that there is a movie within a movie, but as for Zissou's character you just drew a very different resolve than I did. An interesting factor that does back up your claim --- the appearance of Ned standing at the boat at the end of the movie. I took this as Ned being represented in the flag that he made -- one of the first times Zissou allowed someone else to put themself in his world, thus what we see isn't Ned, but his spirit. I took the movie within a movie as just showing the unrealism of Steve's world. Like Ned told him, he's just a character in his movie -- I think everything up until Ned dies is about Zissou, but at that point, he starts to make it about everyone else. It's cool to hear other people thinking a lot into this movie, because I really found it to be like that, and haven't found others who are tearing it apart, and not taking everything at the surface. To me, this movie is in the same class as Barton Fink, and even The Holy Mountain --- This movie is about a lot more going on than what we are told. |
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