1. Wes Anderson Background
• Celebrated film director
• Complete filmography:
• Bottle Rocket (1996)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Life Aquatic (2004)
• Darjeeling Limited (2007)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• Royal Tenenbaum link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMfV72q40U
• 4 main reasons why I chose to profile him:
• Impact, defined a genre and an aesthetic language
• Authenticity in art form
• Resilience to setbacks
• Ability integrate other elements of his life
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2. Impact
• Has been compared to Woody Allen, Fellini and, in a 2000 interview Martin Scorsese
described him as “the next Scorsese”
• Considered by many to be the father of a hipster film movement
• Influenced follow-ons such as Garden State, Juno, etc.
• He created an entirely unique aesthetic language
• Highly stylized, anachronistic compositions (RT and “glorified New York”)
• Heavy focus on intricate details, sets are like paintings
• Heavily curated soundtracks
• Everything from the Beatles to break-out artists such as the Brazilian singer
Seu Jorge
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3. Authenticity
• His movies as an extension of his self
• "In the course of doing these first few movies, I found a way that felt
instinctively right for me, and I didn't feel constrained… the end result is that
they're very personal movies in a way that some people really connect with.”
• So many of the characters in his movies represent different parts of him
• Intensity of his artistic pursuit
• Extreme meticulousness in style
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4. Setbacks
• Movies have lost an average of $9m per movie in the US
• Major box office failures include:
• Life Aquatic
• Darjeeling Limited
• Has not compromised his artistic vision.
• Doubled-down with Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Animation, $40m budget
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5. Home and Community
• Small homages to his family throughout his body of work
• His brother Eric having done most of the set design for RT
• Home and close group of friends: Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
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