Or Max getting off the service elevator and parking his gum to "A Quick One While He's Away".
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Also, this is happening: http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/11/20/i-saved-latin-wes-anderson-tribute-cd/
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:12 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark
It's this one
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah that one. I also liked the scene in Life Aquatic with Bowie's "Queen Bitch" but definitely felt a sense of "oh yeah, this trick again"
― dmr, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
so should we do this poll, can I get a list (I don't wanna omit anything and it's been awhile since I've seen a few of these)
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Mr. Fox is the only film he doesn't do this trick in
also, perhaps coincidentally, his best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGqeHIItY8
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
lol I knew someone must have done that
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
wouldn't have thought of it before I watched that reel but the "ooh la la" shot at the end of rushmore is solid
"quick one" still better tho
― dmr, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
please do this poll!
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm worried I'm going to omit something
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
can people help me fill in the blanks here/what's missing?
Bottle Rocket: Dignan goes to jail to ...Rushmore #1: Max Fischer and his bees step out of an elevator to The Who's "A QUick One"Rushmore #2: Max receives accolades after the debut of his play to ... Rushmore #3: Everyone dances to the Faces "Ooh La La"Royal Tenenbaums #1: Margot steps off the bus to Nico's "These Days"Royal Tenenbaums #2: The family leaves Royle's grave to Van Morrison's "Everyone"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: The crew attends a film premiere to David Bowie's "Queen Bitch"The Darjeeling Limited #1: The brothers attend a funeral to The Kinks' "Strangers"The Darjeeling Limited #2: The brothers race for a train to The Kinks "This Time Tomorrow" (I think?)Moonrise Kingdom ...?
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
somehow I don't think either of these will be in the running
Dignan goes to jail to ... Mark Mothersbaugh - Highway ReprisedMax receives accolades after the debut of his play to ... Zoot Sims - Blinuet
― Number None, Monday, 2 December 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
I think there is another Life Aquatic slow-mo + David Bowie shot on the sub but I can't find a clip or a reference that specifies which song it is
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 December 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
hmm I guess that scene is not in slow-mo actually
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
The way that interiors refract psychology links Anderson’s shooting style to that of Max Ophüls, whose The Earrings of Madame de . . . (1953) Anderson calls “a perfect film” (http://www.criterion. com/explore/115-wes-anderson). The Ophülsian tracking shot marks key moments in Anderson’s movies, including the opening of Moonrise Kingdom, in which the rooms of Suzy’s house are revealed as a series of intricately connected spaces and through which the pleasure of artifice asserts its domain. This effect also recapitulates the movement of Anderson’s camera through the rooms of the house in The Royal Tenenbaums, the ship in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the train in The Darjeeling Limited. When Sam presents his lover with a homemade pair of earrings fashioned out of insects skewered on fishhooks, Ophüls’s earrings might spring to mind by way of comic inversion. In Bottle Rocket, Dignan steals the earrings of Anthony’s mother in a practice burglary, whearas the escalating conflict between Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) and Herman Blume (Murray) in Rushmore (1998) might seem like a joke at the expense of the (far more deadly) duel between a younger and older man over a love affair in Ophüls’s Liebelei (1933). Unlike Ophüls, Anderson studiously avoids overtly unhappy endings, yet he injects a liberal measure of Ophülsian rue into his comedy. Just as The Royal Tenenbaums runs the gamut from infidelity, drug addiction, career failure, attempted suicide, and quasi-incest, Moonrise Kingdom is replete with jokes about loveless marriages, foster care, self-harm, and uncaring parents. Many proponents and detractors of Moonrise Kingdom agree on the point that the movie is not ambitious, whether its “escapist fantasy” (Washington Post) is viewed as a plus or instead as a string of puerile “adolescent fantasies” (New York Observer). Other critics, however, such as Spectrum Culture reviewer Trevor Link, are better equipped to see that the strange “cognitive dissonance” of Anderson’s productions involves the startling degree of “pain and sadness that pools underneath the surface” of nostalgic fables (http://spectrumculture.com/2012/ 05/moonrise-kingdom.html/).
http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/01/unsafe-houses-moonrise-kingdom-and-wes-andersons-conflicted-comedies-of-escape/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
the article from which that derives must be completely tedious.
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
Wes Anderson has announced his intentions to collaborate with Devo co-founder and composer Mark Mothersbaugh on their own theme park.
"I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh," Anderson writes in the foreword to Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. "For 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously."
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22405/1/wes-anderson-wants-to-build-his-own-theme-park
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
i like both of these guys but this sounds like my worst nightmare
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeopJiWnkFI
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I don't like Wes Anderson. I want to make that absolutely clear.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
damn we need do this poll again.
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
no
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, Moonrise Kingdom and whatever the fuck that last one was called, The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain or something, were the closest he's come to the level of Rushmore (despite the lack of Who songs).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
and Foxy
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 December 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Recently took a trip to Austin. Was looking to cut the drive a bit and booked a hotel along the way. Picked the Days Inn in Hillsboro, Texas. Found out after the fact it was the hotel prominently featured in Bottle Rock. It was cool and remains largely unchanged all these years later. It inspired a re-watch of the movie, since I haven't seen it in probably 15 years or more. It was cool to see the hotel, including the very room we stayed in, on screen. And the empty field behind the hotel and pool is still an empty field. And the movie has it's cool bits, but it has not aged well at all. A lot about it really bugged me. Anthony's behavior when stalking Inez is pretty unacceptable. Very creepy, and no amount of Wes Anderson soundtrack music could offset that vibe for me. And really the whole thing is basically White Privilege: The Motion Picture. I guess Dignan gets a stint in the slammer at the end, which kinda offsets the no-consequences-for-the-rich-boys thing. And what was the big reveal there at the end, that Dignan admits he, at some point, had spent time in a real nuthouse? It's a very frustrating movie. Rushmore and the rest are miles ahead after this one.
― andrew m., Monday, 24 August 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
For awhile there, for every move Anthony made on Inez my wife and I were yelling "That is not OK!"
― andrew m., Monday, 24 August 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
my god
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Monday, 24 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Did He forsake you too?! Compelling.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 25 August 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
Not sure if this has been posted or not--too many Wes Anderson and/or political threads to check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nP-hci-AQ&app=desktop
Not great, but pretty good--better than The Grand Budapest Hotel. I love the Bobby Jindal chapter.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 January 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
ok yeah I lol'd @ Jindal entrance
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
I've not seen Bottle Rocket or The Isle of Dogs, but of the rest, this matches my own ranking exactly, except I'd swap #4 and #5
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/23/the-best-wes-anderson-movies-ranked
― Alba, Friday, 23 March 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
Bottle Rocket is way too low
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lovestruck-hero-or-creepy-harasser-suddenly-were-seeing-our-favorite-rom-coms-in-a-new-light/2018/02/27/1d3d85d2-06a8-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html
ctrl-f "bottle rocket"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
None unreservedly, and not in order without complete revisitation, but I like Darjeeling, Moonrise, Tenenbaums and maybe Bottle Rocket more than Budapest, Fox, or Rushmore. I haven't paid much attention to Chevalier or Zissou.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Incidentally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Zissou_(jurist)
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:14 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i did and nothing happened
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
oh no wait now i get it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
Darjeeling was probably the most bored I've ever been in a movie theater. it felt like a spot-on parody of a Wes Anderson film, just without any humor
― frogbs, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
"look at these assholes" was a peak Wes Anderson moment but otherwise the film wasn't top shelf. though i liked it tbh.
― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
http://lwlies.com/articles/the-darjeeling-limited-wes-anderson-best-film/
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
I can't go thee.
― Alba, Saturday, 24 March 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link
going w/ the site name
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
The Darjeeling Limited is the best! I know it gets a lot of stick for cultural appropriation but it’s all framed in a ‘look at these idiots!’ kind of way, epitomised in the shoe-being-stolen prank. I think it’s a wonderfully poignant film about parental neglect and what it means to be symbolically orphaned. And about all kinds of loss really.
The performances, especially by Wilson and Brody, feel blisteringly personal, and the context of what was going on for Owen Wilson at the time only adds to this: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1658495,00.html
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
It’s also really funny.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
I'm glad to see ILX consensus around every film ever released by Wes Anderson.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
nobody talked about moonrise at all on this thread. maybe there is another thread where people talk about it.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
yeah I love darjeeling, but maybe only because of the color palette
― akm, Saturday, 24 March 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
the only recent ones i’ve liked are Moonrise Kingdom & Grand Budapest Hotel. I can’t explain why but all the promos for Isle of Dogs have repelled me. But I wasn’t into Fantastic Mr Fox either
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link