Watch Jeffrey Wright Give a Rousing Speech in ‘Asteroid City’ | Anatomy of a Scene
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2023
- On the page, the speech a military general delivers in the film “Asteroid City” might look a little loopy. On the screen, delivered with verve by the actor Jeffrey Wright, it reaches even greater heights of both oddity and emotion.
“I wanted to write something that, in a way, only Jeffrey could do,” said Wes Anderson, the film’s director and screenwriter, during an interview in New York. He wanted to tell a story of the generations of this character’s family.
“Jeffrey turns it into more like a poem,” he said. “But it’s a poem that is delivered with a sort of ferocity.”
The speech is executed in one take, with the camera dollying side to side as well as forward and backward, to capture all of Wright’s beats. Anderson said it was achieved with a complicated setup using “a crazy set of dolly tracks, sideways dolly tracks with a section of track that glides on the top of the three tracks,” a rig conceived by Anderson’s key grip, Sanjay Sami.
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It's a really simple scene but probably my favorite in the movie. Hearing Wes Anderson nonchalantly describe the impossible scifi stuff the kids did as "some good work" is hilarious.
Yeah, I love his sense of humour. Projecting something onto the moon sure is some good work
"My father went off to fight in a war that was the end of all wars-it didn’t. What was left of him arrived in a pine box with a flag on top." How in the world one can condense so much complicated history into a few simple but incredibly accurate sentances just blows my mind. Also Jeffrey Wright is a BOSS.
That my friend is Art!
anyone feel somewhat mesmeric in the way he does the speech? The speed and its rhyme are kind of mesmerizing for me.
I agree, it really was mesmeric
If you think about how Wright's character is moved by the children's innovations, the more you think about theme of celebrating the importance of art.
This is a beautifully done scene in all aspects. You can even feel the emotions that Wright brought to this.
It’s about how art and life mean nothing.
I really enjoyed this movie but it left me scratching my head in the best possible way. Need to see it again.
I've enjoyed seeing Jeffrey Wright in several shows and movies the last 10-15 years and seeing his performance in this scene on a big movie screen was simply arresting.
Jeffrey Wright is pure ASMR.
Incredible writing by Wes Anderson and perfectly balanced scoring by Alexandre Desplat captivated me throughout. There was a particular line that resonated deeply: "I am not a scientist, you are. End of Chapter 3." This film was a delightful blend of fun and whimsy, leaving me eagerly anticipating Wes Anderson's next creative endeavor. I always wished that he was able to make a movie with Godard, it would have been a creative masterpiece.
Teenager: Creates a small and portable device that contains light more powerful than the sun which it projects 4000km away onto about 1000km of the moon's face.
Wes: Quite impressive...
I've always been a casual fan of both Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright, but it is only after they started collaborating that I've fully started appreciating both of them. They complement each other's magic, if that even makes sense.
Can’t wait to see this
I firmly believe that Anderson is a genius and that his movies are art of the highest order. I just don't like them.
“I’m not a scientist, you are” 🤓
Ahh!! Fav scene amongst bush berries all around
Wich scene u talking about?? Bush berries?
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Watch Jeffrey Wright Give a Rousing Speech in ‘Asteroid City’ | Anatomy of a Scene 1749pm 26.6.23 mars attacks might be worth watching again... these men with post traumatic stress disorder...? you seem to have coupled celestial attack with Dr Strangelove.
What was the formula by the way😅😅😅😅😅
5 belly laughs!!
he sounds like mulaney sometimes
He looks like a Latin American dictator 😂😂
Rousing? No. Clever though.
Soylu is the surname of my military friend, Albayrak, and so is the Minister of Family, Interior and Ministry of National Education, the names and surnames of the people around me.
They have been threatening this coordinate with torture for 10 years TSK Grand National Assembly of Turkey MEB JANDARMA take the Africans upstairs from the building!
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..in jail? Sure!
This is the best scene in the movie.