![]() ![]() You can see as he evolved with Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and Tenenbaums his visual style slowly took a larger and larger place in his films. There’s no denying that for the first part of his career he found a beautiful balance with his unique visual and emotional styles. Fox find Anderson moving back in the right direction, and the more I watch Fox the better it gets, but, for me, they don’t reach the height of his early career trifecta. For me, The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Moonrise Kingdom falls prey to the same problem. By the end we’re supposed to feel for this relationship, but the film becomes so muddied in its own gleeful imagery and imagination that we don’t. But the film’s core emotional story between Zissou (Bill Murray) and his possible son (Owen Wilson) doesn’t have the emotional pull it should. The LIfe Aquatic is a funhouse of visual gags and really bonkers characters (especially Willem Dafoe’s Klaus), which makes it very entertaining. His later films have a larger scope and budget that gave him the freedom to experiment, but that freedom also causes him to lose focus on his characters. That’s what makes him so special and that’s why even his lesser efforts are still pretty great. You know a Wes Anderson movie from the first frame. ![]() Instead I think the emotions are there, but they are somewhat sacrificed to what has become a slightly bloated visual style.Īnderson’s films have these very easily noticeable qualities: a distinctive, detail-focused visual style and an equally discernible comedic dryness and emotional subtlety. Some have argued that Anderson’s films post- Tenenbaum lack a powerful emotional element, but I don’t buy that. Fox rival his best work, but I do concede that there’s still some magical, unexplainable element missing. I still attest that The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. That’s not to say that they don’t have their defenders, but the number of them is much smaller. His first three films can easily be described as his most universally loved while his later efforts like The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom are met with a more mixed reaction. The second includes everything he’s made since. As it stands now his fans unofficially divide his films into two categories: The first consists of his first three films ( Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums). Anderson is completely confident in his ability not just with his eyes, but also with his heart.īefore I talk about that film, though, it’s important to look at the film in the context of Anderson’s career. It’s such an original, efficient, beautiful, sad, hilarious work. Right from the start of Rushmore I still get that jolt that I’m watching something special. The movie tells the story of ambitious, eccentric, insecure 15-year-old Max Fisher, a kid at a prep school who spends way too much time on extra-curricular activities, not enough time on his studies and is always trying to make his mark on his beloved Rushmore Academy. Not because the filmmaker has less talent now than he did 15 years ago, but because the Anderson that made Rushmore has, more or less, disappeared. Rushmore is the best film Wes Anderson has ever made, and it would take something incredibly special for him to top it. ![]()
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