pick your favorite wes anderson film!

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.

so what was your secret reason for doing this?

amateurist high school drama club will perform a slightly altered version of the winning film at the end of the spring semester

also lol @ rushmore getting 51 votes

perhaps the Tenenbaum haters/Fox lovers are indeed a small shouty minority

my secret reason was... i wanted to know what folks' favorite wes anderson film was.

Just saw Rushmore again last night. Not sure how much I liked it. But I quite liked it.

Anyway what surprised me was discovering, or rediscovering, Thomson's entry on WA in the 2003 (?) biographical dictionary where he says watch this space, he may do something interesting.

What a strange misjudgement - for if you thought WA interesting enough to include at all, then you'd have to accept that the first 3 or so films were already worth discussing; and if you didn't like them, then there was little reason to think he'd improve.

rushmore by a mile for me, then bottle rocket - flush everything else down the toilet

rushmore came out when i was 13 and really confounded me for a few years, i felt overloaded with irony and i had no idea what i was supposed to think of it, and as a consequence it sorta made me mad - by the time tenenbaums came along my friend had convinced me that WA was mostly sincere and i found it easier to take him at face value by then

never understood the love for Bottle Rocket

― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 5, 2010 1:18 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

its funny with likable characters - its also almost impossible to imagine him filming something like this again, it has such a Texas feel to it and isn't plagued by his obsession w/making color schemes the star of the movie

tenenbaums is probably the height of the kind of thing he wants to accomplish, but its almost just... too much for me. it's great when you're 17 though

i think life aquatic is his only truly loathesome, worthless movie - darjeeling was actually better than i expected, but still nothing i think back on fondly

highlights of his career: "O.R. they" and the scene from Rushmore where bill murray wanders onto a basketball court and blocks a little kid's shot

i think life aquatic is his only truly loathesome, worthless movie - darjeeling was actually better than i expected, but still nothing i think back on fondly

totally.

the other highlight is of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKTkcq_xh4