The fact that Wes Anderson may be the most diligent manufacturer of short films today becomes clear when you look carefully at his recent work. The four adaptations of “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar” and three other Roald Dahl stories that he made for Netflix were presented as a single anthology film; Its somewhat previous functionality The French dispatch did not hide the essential separation of its stories, each based on an article for a fictitious version of New York. Although Anderson's fans and criticisms easily note the increasingly elaborate constructions of his photos, it should be remembered that his career began with a simple short circuit: The thirteen -minute black and white version of Bottle rocket This would evolve towards his first full work.
Anderson tells the story not only of this first functionality but also of the twelve that would follow The new video of Vanity aboveMention the details, even the dedicated Andersonians, may not know. The original, “very, very, very long” Bottle rocket The script obtained a serious cup under the direction of the Hollywood producer James L. Brooks. Locations for Rushmore were spotted depending on whether the movements through them could be correctly choreographed to certain songs of British invasion.
Anderson promised fire Gene Hackman that he would have a “good time” The Royal TenenbaumsA promise that has not been filled. When he hired the Single Jorge to sing David Bowie songs to Aquatic lifeHe did not know that he was already a pop singer in Brazil. When you talk to him Darjeeling LimitedPeople tend to call it “The Darjeeling Express. “”
Many of these memories have to do with his inspirations, which for Darjeeling Limited were specific subcontinental films like that of Jean Renoir The riverLouis Malle Ghost Indiaand Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. Moon Kingdom was made possible when Anderson, a long time residing in France, came “to see America as a foreign country”. Writing The French dispatchHe looked at the New York As he was under his first contrasting editors, Harold Ross and William Shawn. Asteroid city was from a kind of tribute to the actors' studio at the nineteen fifty. He describes his last image The Phoenician Program As having been inspired by the work of Luis Buñuel and written for Benicio Del Toro, who plays a magnate of an “nineteen-year-old Italian film” subject to “biblical visions” during his frequent brushes with death. “I didn't have the moment when I don't know what I want to do next,” said Anderson at the end of the video. As sure as moviegoers may think that they know exactly what to expect from him, he surely has many more surprises in store for us.
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