pick your favorite wes anderson film!

Isn't his dad Matthew Farnsworth? That guy can carry likability across several generations.

he's so weird and cute (in an odd, harshly angled sort of way, esp in a beret) that I'd probably be attracted to him in prep school too.

Max is not a good guy. He's a teenager.

never understood the love for Bottle Rocket

― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

it's the whole lovable losers aspect. plus future man is one of the greatest monikers ever created.

Yeah, Max is often extremely unlikable.

all of these movies appeal 2 me deeply but i like rushmore best bcuz of the new wave & the azn gf

god the azn girlfriend made me so uncomfortable

have known so many of those types irl

azn gfs?

will say that w.ands perfectionist dollmaker rococo craziness was at its all time heights w/ rt ended up composing sum p incredible images storybook conceit probably helped. also kinda the most classic corny anderson music cues even better then eliot smith wrist slashing is the valiant eagle soaring 2 the strains of hey jude ~ gr8 filmmaking

hater's gonna hate, i voted natalie portman's ass

god the azn girlfriend made me so uncomfortable

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why?

like I said I know too many of those types IRL and may actually be one IRL

what type is she?

overachieving azn who is pretty bland and lacks a personality/is not interesting

is sort of tolerated by everyone but nobody really likes her

:-(

The one I think I enjoyed most was Darjeeling, but I have a tough time with Anderson films. I don't know if it's an audio issue, but I always find it difficult to concentrate on the dialogue. It seems cloudy and arrhythmic or mumbled somehow.

jesus dyao you're making me feel bad with that level of self-hatred

although her (not entirely inexplicable, though perhaps not fully justified) affection for him is kind of another hint that he's basically a good and decent guy.

well, that and wes's racist exoticism fetish HEYO

haha nhex I guess I've just spent so much of my life trying to define myself against that 'type' that I'm just really sensitive about it I dunno

The actress who played her is now an M.D.

Which I hope everyone here will take with a goodnatured LOL given the current discussion of stereotypes.

She is currently in the Internal Medicine Residency program at the University of Chicago.

some people on this thread would like to get internal with her amirite

i bet she's still boring and unpopular though

well, that and wes's racist exoticism fetish HEYO

i don't know that i should just let this sit there. please explain. and explain how it relates to this particular character. would you rather he have just cast a scottish girl to be max's love interest?

i think we can all agree wes anderson is generally pretty racist

yeah tbh any director whose indie pretentions occasionally exceed their grasp is a massive bigot

what?

jeez, i feel like it's 2002 all over again.

i'm just wondering if there's any way that anderson could have made the girlfriend asian and NOT have to contend with you corny indie fuxors complaining of racism.

bigger jugs?

(christ then i wonder where i get 12 suggest bans from)

haha yeah, make her more attractive for one thing

more like inez, the ingenuous cleaning lady

i.e. whiter

draw more pictures of margaret yang on a horse

lol i wasn't complaining of racism, pretty sure caek wasn't either

use the power of computers to make the next film only star kumar in a variety of fun and quirky costumes

lol

"Sure, it's tempting to imagine belonging to another culture but I'm comfortable with the status my ethnicity and birth provides" , confides Anderson, the briefest hint of a smile visible as he discusses his new Renoir by way of Satyajit Ray neocolonial chamber piece in the opulent surroundings of a Chennai Gentleman's Club. "There are times growing up when I'd have to pretend that kind of privileged Northern European cultural background embarassed me, when we'd have to visit these impoverished Hispanic districts or whatever. But really I didn't give a fuck. They were savages."

lol

context for that? cos he obviously never said that.

A+

this is a special genre of fanfic where we make believe liberal slebs are actually awful reactionaries in order to prolong ilx threads.

oh, i've been engaging in a form of that activity for years in anything to do with uk media/politics.

ps maddy had it coming

lhttp://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/puzzlessue/Emoticons/Odd%20Different/watchingu.gifhttp://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/puzzlessue/Emoticons/Odd%20Different/watchingu.gifk for maddy

"There are times growing up when I'd have to pretend that kind of privileged Northern European cultural background embarassed me, when we'd have to visit these impoverished Hispanic districts or whatever. But really I didn't give a fuck. They were savages."

Gold.

Nakhchivan = genius.

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and the results are... entirely unsurprising

on second thought, i'm surprised life aquatic did as well as it did. not surprised, although disappointment, at the poor showing for darjeeling limited.