I was late diagnosed with ADHD- I know it might sound stupid as a starter for a comment about a famous persons' work, but hear me out! I was really drawn to his movies since I was young- I was born in 1989, so can remember watching his earliest movies on VHS- my mom although she had similar taste, and more niche movies were watched in our household, but wasn't a fan of his as much, watched them with me to explain them to me when I was too young to understand. And I loved everything- stories, visuale, music etc. My love for his movies stayed with me till this day, but few years ago I realized something. I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and with yhis knowledge I was going through everything that I liked and had my longer interest - then it dawned on me. Wes Andersons' movies feel and look like a story told by a person with ADHD. Twists and turns, suddenly inserted anecdotes, meticulously described backgrounds and surroundings and everything all at once.
Wow, that explains a lot. I think you're onto something. Fellow late-diagnosed (in my late 40s) ADHD. I think too, there's something about the staged world he creates that resonates in that way. I digest the world via stories and narrative. To be honest, I think most people do, whether they're conscious of it or not. But for me, the framework of artifice allows me to focus on what's significant. Otherwise, there's too much noise. So Anderson's "all the world's a stage" approach feels comfortable, holding the heavy emotions in a container so I can enjoy them rather than feeling overwhelmed by them.
I think his time in stop motion really helped to inform where his style should naturally evolve and I love seeing the integration of the two mediums that make his work so special.
Great essay that mirrors the film's style! Having enjoyed the French Dispatch VERY much, this video really is a treat. Though understandable, I'd felt it unfair when lots of people thought the French Dispatch was merely an exercise of overindulgent style.
Agreed! It's because an Anderson movie requires ones brain to remain active and actually pay attentio.. That is a lot to ask of our current culture...lol.
Love the video, and goddamn how did it not get nominated for set design. I think all the story pieces didn't resonate with me too much but the amount of insane things done stylistically makes me MORE excited for future Wes Anderson things. Hope he keeps going off the walls
11:41 nailed it. The abandoned building he used had the same windows as MCS train station so i got train station vibes especiallg in the electric chair room.
Been waiting for this one for months. I hope we see more films like this in the future seeing so many new (i guess old) techniques is a breath of fresh air in this modern industry
This essay was really well written! Great analysis, the meta-framing was on point and the effort put into the video shone through. How this has under 1k views, I have no idea.
I think the episode about the artist was the best part, a real masterpiece. The way the movie portrayed the relationship between an artist and his muse as a prisoner and a guard: metaphor really stuck with me. I love how Anderson went to darker territories here. at times I felt inside a Kafka story.
Super well thought out and well put together video - entertaining and informative- the 3 parts represented, to me, a sort of twisted Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité. - freedom of the soul- its need to express in art, Equality in the students and intellectual left’s attempts at rectifying class inequality and social and family generational expectations, and fraternity between men despite different races, nationalities and sexual preferences. Of course, all good intentions are easier in concept and everything is jumbled in a Wes Anderson ‘reality’ of human frailty.
I don’t know if you will see this but I have always seen a direct line from Hal Hartley to Wes Anderson. And Hartley was definitely inspired by the French films you speak of here. I would love to know your thoughts on Hartley in general. I just stumbled upon your channel here I am so glad I did.
Totally agree about that final scene. As is almost always the case with WA films, I wasn't sure what to make of the thing until I got to the end. That scene made it all slip into focus. Incidentally, you're thinking of a möbius strip. A Morbius strip is when a living vampire seductively removes his clothes.
Fantastic review of the film. I still want to know what those eel-like creatures were in the eavestroughs though. Never identified by name but shown twice.
I really found the stories mostly pretty empty but I'd like to check it out again. I even like Wes Anderson. All the wild perspectives of this film baffle me somewhat
Yea, try and pay attention this time. Not only to the film but this video... it gives you the background as to Anedersons inspiration. Who the characters were based on. The fact you are watching a magazine as opposed to reading it. It's also very much a parody in ways.
the roebuck wright segment hits too hard for me. i also find it interesting that it takes visual cues from rififi, which is of course directed by jules dassin, yet another american exile in france.
Not sure why but there is something so neat about WA's movies Im just drawn to them. I have to be honest, I cant take it all in a single viewing. I can watch these movies multiple times and in each new viewing I see something clever I never noticed before.
I think Grand Budapest was the only one I could really digest on first viewing. The rest were a process of rewatching and reconsidering. I'm still not sure what to make of Isle of Dogs.
As close as Anderson has come thus far....to a masterpiece! He is an astonishingly good storyteller that captures our humanity yet always keeps it fun and whimsical. All the while, the story is visual engaging as well. Especially Lea! Tabernac!!! She's all woman ...lol. The poor reviews of this movie quickly expose themselves and people who shouldn't watch movies that requires your brain to still be active! There is so much thought and care that goes into his movies that you almost own him thr respect of being attentive and...in what is coming out of Hollywood's corporate assembly line of movie by committee, confor, to the cookie cutter and make sure to get woke messaging in to please the permanently offended and outrage mob that is Twitter...I thank God there is a Wes Anderson still able to make these amazing movies. He truly is unique while paying homage not only to past greats but like most great artists, his life influences are apparent. Arguably one of the best of the modern era!
Well I watched it again yesterday. I gotta say first and second stories are pretty good. Third story is good though but I think it gone as a victim of pacing. If only last 30 minutes pacing are a bit better, this would be definately my favorite Anderson film. Still I'm in a dilemma of course. Because I watched Grand Budapest and Moonrise and this feel way more different than the other two. Cinematography is awesome (as always) and stories are good. It good to see your analyse Kino. Without you I don't think I understand the references and backstory, the references of the stories. With the time goes I think I'll love this film more.
the current times have panned out his works and the pattern it follows most that follow his films have questioned its structures and the film The French Dispatch explains the methods of his cinema
Superb analysis - of what was for me the second disappointing WA film - the first was Life Aquatic - the third disappointment was Asteroid City - and, sadly, WE’s take on Dahl short stories was not particularly enticing either. NB I love all the previous ones.
Wait, was Roebuck’s entire thing not about being a gay professional in a certain era? I see the ex-Pat community as a larger version of the same experience of being in a silo, but (not as a gay person myself) I really thought that was the obvious analogy and connection whenever he spoke with others about his loneliness.
I think it's about the relationship between the specific and the general. Being gay and/or black in 50s America makes you definitively a person without a country. As Malcolm X said, "I'm not an African American, I'm a person of African descent living in America." All the stories were in one way or another being an outsider, and the relationship between the outsider and the world in which they dwelt, but didn't belong to. And by exploring this idea in three dramatically different ways, the film allows us to step back and understand the concept of being an outsider more completely, from the standpoint of the prisoner, the revolutionary, and the exile.
I think this vid might’ve convince me to become the weeb equivalent for the French. I’m maybe one or two Spirou comic volumes away to become exactly that, and this is driving me to the edge.
Small translation hint : "Ennui sur Blasé" is not only obviously a fictitious place, it litterally to "Boredom-on-lassitude" (I mean "blasé" is real hard to translate, it's kind of a blatant uninterested bored attitude)
totally missed the point of Wright's infatuation with writing about food, him being gay and the cook being a foreigner. He reveals why he writes about food and the last analysis totally disregards his revelation to fit a totally different self serving narrative. Great video tho.
It was the only Wes Anderson movie that I didnt like because it was unrelatable, and it saddens me that thats the only thing I can say about the work of art in wich so much effort was put
He WROTE it SOLO. It’s the ONLY film of his that is completely his own… much in the way Barry Lyndon is all Kubrick as that one was his only Adaptation that was solely his as a writer or screenwriter.
It's a lovely film, as ever... but it's all too much Wes. It occurred me that it would've been so much better as a streaming series. More episodic, and I think it would've gone down better in smaller doses, still framed as issues in the magazine. But nobody asked me.
I didn't like it at all either. It seemed meaningless from the get-go and it never went anywhere. I watched the first half or so, and i'm sure not one thing will stick with me- which is remarkable. Most famous people seem to be making uninspired replicas of their old stuff, and pretending it's great. The soul is gone.
Another artsy, fartsy film of absolute nonsense using 16mm cameras where nothing happens, long stares and no story. French Dispatch was unwatchable, I had to turn it off 20 minutes in.
I think the only people who could enjoy that movie are extremely eccentric cinephiles (there are probably a couple hundred in the world), and snobs or pretentious people who like to like things that other people don't "get". Just look at all the comments on this and other videos, going on about set design and combining mediums- who cares? I'm a musician and a tone snob, but i don't appreciate an album for its stereo panning or microphone placement. These are things that are meant to be ignored, so the music can come through. If you took away the frills from this movie, and made it an acoustic version of itself, there would be almost nothing left. You certainly couldn't hum it.
Wes Anderson has his quirky characters and specific aesthetic, but I wouldn't call it reddit. Star Wars and Marvel are reddit movies. Anderson makes art that actually provokes some thought and had love put into it even if it's not everyone's cup of tea.
WES GONNA WES
This is the movie everyone imagines they are gonna watch if they have never seen a Wes Anderson film.
This is a fantastic analysis. We spent 6 months crafting this movie. It’s great to see that the nuance didn’t go unnoticed. Thank you.
That’s awesome, In what capacity did you work on the film?
@@chisairaccoon1931 - I am the key grip and steadicam operator
@@sanjaysami4315 amazing, wishing you even more success in your career.
@@sanjaysami4315ou kept that bitch steady af bro. 'preciate what you do 👍
My fav shots had to be the "freeze frames"
Love your work Mr. Sami! About to watch Asteroid City, looks like another artistic triumph!
I was late diagnosed with ADHD- I know it might sound stupid as a starter for a comment about a famous persons' work, but hear me out!
I was really drawn to his movies since I was young- I was born in 1989, so can remember watching his earliest movies on VHS- my mom although she had similar taste, and more niche movies were watched in our household, but wasn't a fan of his as much, watched them with me to explain them to me when I was too young to understand. And I loved everything- stories, visuale, music etc. My love for his movies stayed with me till this day, but few years ago I realized something.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and with yhis knowledge I was going through everything that I liked and had my longer interest - then it dawned on me. Wes Andersons' movies feel and look like a story told by a person with ADHD. Twists and turns, suddenly inserted anecdotes, meticulously described backgrounds and surroundings and everything all at once.
Wow, that explains a lot. I think you're onto something. Fellow late-diagnosed (in my late 40s) ADHD. I think too, there's something about the staged world he creates that resonates in that way. I digest the world via stories and narrative. To be honest, I think most people do, whether they're conscious of it or not. But for me, the framework of artifice allows me to focus on what's significant. Otherwise, there's too much noise. So Anderson's "all the world's a stage" approach feels comfortable, holding the heavy emotions in a container so I can enjoy them rather than feeling overwhelmed by them.
I think his time in stop motion really helped to inform where his style should naturally evolve and I love seeing the integration of the two mediums that make his work so special.
Great essay that mirrors the film's style! Having enjoyed the French Dispatch VERY much, this video really is a treat. Though understandable, I'd felt it unfair when lots of people thought the French Dispatch was merely an exercise of overindulgent style.
Agreed! It's because an Anderson movie requires ones brain to remain active and actually pay attentio.. That is a lot to ask of our current culture...lol.
creating a movie like this with actual passion and intention must take such a brilliant mind to pull off
Love the video, and goddamn how did it not get nominated for set design. I think all the story pieces didn't resonate with me too much but the amount of insane things done stylistically makes me MORE excited for future Wes Anderson things. Hope he keeps going off the walls
I was not expecting to see an iron & wine profile pic this high up in the comments- bravo
Amazing editing, a criminally underviewed channel
11:41 nailed it. The abandoned building he used had the same windows as MCS train station so i got train station vibes especiallg in the electric chair room.
That homage intro is pretty amazing.
Been waiting for this one for months. I hope we see more films like this in the future seeing so many new (i guess old) techniques is a breath of fresh air in this modern industry
This essay was really well written! Great analysis, the meta-framing was on point and the effort put into the video shone through. How this has under 1k views, I have no idea.
I think the episode about the artist was the best part, a real masterpiece. The way the movie portrayed the relationship between an artist and his muse as a prisoner and a guard: metaphor really stuck with me. I love how Anderson went to darker territories here. at times I felt inside a Kafka story.
12:50 the nod to salvador dalis photography ❤! Iconic.
This is the best video essay i've ever watched
It's a wonder to me how this video doesn't have a million views! Incredible
Very clever editing. Very enjoyable homage!
That shot from 'Mon Oncle', a movie I have never heard of, was stunning. I am going to seek it out to see other Wes-esque scenes.
This is a solidly in-depth video on one of my favorite films from last year.
This video is truly a masterpiece. Thanks for creating this compelling analysis!
one of your best videos yet, M8. keep em comin
This is worthy of triple subscription
Super well thought out and well put together video - entertaining and informative- the 3 parts represented, to me, a sort of twisted Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité. - freedom of the soul- its need to express in art, Equality in the students and intellectual left’s attempts at rectifying class inequality and social and family generational expectations, and fraternity between men despite different races, nationalities and sexual preferences. Of course, all good intentions are easier in concept and everything is jumbled in a Wes Anderson ‘reality’ of human frailty.
I don’t know if you will see this but I have always seen a direct line from Hal Hartley to Wes Anderson. And Hartley was definitely inspired by the French films you speak of here.
I would love to know your thoughts on Hartley in general.
I just stumbled upon your channel here I am so glad I did.
This was great. Really helped me with this film. Im a huge Wes fan but this one left me out a bit. Now I have some context which is great.
Good stuff
Totally agree about that final scene. As is almost always the case with WA films, I wasn't sure what to make of the thing until I got to the end. That scene made it all slip into focus.
Incidentally, you're thinking of a möbius strip. A Morbius strip is when a living vampire seductively removes his clothes.
This is coming on Netflix pretty soon so will watch after I have seen it
Every fucking frame was absolutely gorgeous, not my favorite Anderson film, but it’s definitely the most aesthetic.
Hergé would absolutely love this film I think.
Great Illustrated Thumbnail 👍
I can almost believe the actors would agree to work minimum wage just to be in a genius Wes Anderson masterpiece
That was a hell of an intro
Great effort into this video. Well done.
This is an amazing video essay. Amazing work!!
The Intro was amazing, as was the rest of the video ;)
Fantastic review of the film. I still want to know what those eel-like creatures were in the eavestroughs though. Never identified by name but shown twice.
This is the best essay on this movie I watched so far!!!
Genuinely the best film of 2021
I really found the stories mostly pretty empty but I'd like to check it out again. I even like Wes Anderson. All the wild perspectives of this film baffle me somewhat
Yea, try and pay attention this time. Not only to the film but this video... it gives you the background as to Anedersons inspiration. Who the characters were based on. The fact you are watching a magazine as opposed to reading it. It's also very much a parody in ways.
Man how I enjoyed watching this movie
//A cultural relic of a town that never existed// Damn❤
HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T EXPECT GLINK TO SHOW UP IN A VIDEO ABOUT WES ANDERSON
Que buen análisis, ya se antoja verla de nuevo
14:58 that scene drives me crazy because i recignize it but dont remember where....
the roebuck wright segment hits too hard for me. i also find it interesting that it takes visual cues from rififi, which is of course directed by jules dassin, yet another american exile in france.
The most impactful part for me was definitely the dialogue between the chef and the nigga
Not sure why but there is something so neat about WA's movies Im just drawn to them. I have to be honest, I cant take it all in a single viewing. I can watch these movies multiple times and in each new viewing I see something clever I never noticed before.
I think Grand Budapest was the only one I could really digest on first viewing. The rest were a process of rewatching and reconsidering. I'm still not sure what to make of Isle of Dogs.
fantastic opening
As close as Anderson has come thus far....to a masterpiece! He is an astonishingly good storyteller that captures our humanity yet always keeps it fun and whimsical. All the while, the story is visual engaging as well. Especially Lea! Tabernac!!! She's all woman ...lol.
The poor reviews of this movie quickly expose themselves and people who shouldn't watch movies that requires your brain to still be active! There is so much thought and care that goes into his movies that you almost own him thr respect of being attentive and...in what is coming out of Hollywood's corporate assembly line of movie by committee, confor, to the cookie cutter and make sure to get woke messaging in to please the permanently offended and outrage mob that is Twitter...I thank God there is a Wes Anderson still able to make these amazing movies. He truly is unique while paying homage not only to past greats but like most great artists, his life influences are apparent. Arguably one of the best of the modern era!
We never did get those beach shots…
Well I watched it again yesterday. I gotta say first and second stories are pretty good. Third story is good though but I think it gone as a victim of pacing. If only last 30 minutes pacing are a bit better, this would be definately my favorite Anderson film. Still I'm in a dilemma of course. Because I watched Grand Budapest and Moonrise and this feel way more different than the other two. Cinematography is awesome (as always) and stories are good. It good to see your analyse Kino. Without you I don't think I understand the references and backstory, the references of the stories. With the time goes I think I'll love this film more.
This is the best movie-thats why you choose to see it,not one who says some imagined thesis aboit why people see it.
You deserve more subs
nice one mate
So exited
Good video bro!
the current times have panned out his works and the pattern it follows most that follow his films have questioned its structures and the film The French Dispatch explains the methods of his cinema
5:15 JC, you are "Цой"
20:32 lmao
Superb analysis - of what was for me the second disappointing WA film - the first was Life Aquatic - the third disappointment was Asteroid City - and, sadly, WE’s take on Dahl short stories was not particularly enticing either. NB I love all the previous ones.
Wes Anderson is the American Fellini
I don't know what it means to the the MOST you. If you cultivate a style, it's beyond being YOU.
Do Rushmore next
Wait, was Roebuck’s entire thing not about being a gay professional in a certain era? I see the ex-Pat community as a larger version of the same experience of being in a silo, but (not as a gay person myself) I really thought that was the obvious analogy and connection whenever he spoke with others about his loneliness.
I think it's about the relationship between the specific and the general. Being gay and/or black in 50s America makes you definitively a person without a country. As Malcolm X said, "I'm not an African American, I'm a person of African descent living in America." All the stories were in one way or another being an outsider, and the relationship between the outsider and the world in which they dwelt, but didn't belong to. And by exploring this idea in three dramatically different ways, the film allows us to step back and understand the concept of being an outsider more completely, from the standpoint of the prisoner, the revolutionary, and the exile.
I think this vid might’ve convince me to become the weeb equivalent for the French. I’m maybe one or two Spirou comic volumes away to become exactly that, and this is driving me to the edge.
Based Anderson-pilled
Small translation hint : "Ennui sur Blasé" is not only obviously a fictitious place, it litterally to "Boredom-on-lassitude" (I mean "blasé" is real hard to translate, it's kind of a blatant uninterested bored attitude)
did you like the movie?
Yes!
Homage to the new Yorker
7:30 people
8:30 movies
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13:40 spoiler lol
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7:43 Bleeder
Nice
Grrrrreat video
When will he justly win a directing Oscar? Maybe an Orson Welles or Alfred Hitchcock kind of legacy?
this waas good
totally missed the point of Wright's infatuation with writing about food, him being gay and the cook being a foreigner. He reveals why he writes about food and the last analysis totally disregards his revelation to fit a totally different self serving narrative. Great video tho.
You said Morbuis Strip...
I still think grand Budapest is his most Wes Anderson film
Spot on. Absolutely. French Dispatch leaves me cold.
It was the only Wes Anderson movie that I didnt like because it was unrelatable, and it saddens me that thats the only thing I can say about the work of art in wich so much effort was put
He WROTE it SOLO. It’s the ONLY film of his that is completely his own… much in the way Barry Lyndon is all Kubrick as that one was his only Adaptation that was solely his as a writer or screenwriter.
"MORBIUS STRIP"
"Mobius strip" not "morbius strip"
/tv/'s very own video essayist.
/tv/ hates Wes Anderson though.
it's an adjective now?????
The random French phrases took me out lmao
The thumbnail is very wesing
Bro said POIG-nant
AND FUCKING MORBIUS STRIP OMFG I LOVE THIS
Sandro is Tilda Swinton bf
this was a decent video but it was kinda yikes when you said that there should be less black people in the film
How so?
I love the nerdyness of his movies but I still can’t get into them. Love the plots, music, look, etc, but the acting always seems flat or something.
Wes sniffs his own farts
It's a lovely film, as ever... but it's all too much Wes. It occurred me that it would've been so much better as a streaming series. More episodic, and I think it would've gone down better in smaller doses, still framed as issues in the magazine. But nobody asked me.
This argument seems purely aesthetic and superficial.
I love Wes Anderson but this was too much for me. The stories were confusing and not very interesting. It was also too stylised.
I didn't like it at all either. It seemed meaningless from the get-go and it never went anywhere. I watched the first half or so, and i'm sure not one thing will stick with me- which is remarkable. Most famous people seem to be making uninspired replicas of their old stuff, and pretending it's great. The soul is gone.
Morbius strip
I had to do a double take for that Möbius Strip line
Hello Reddit!
Another artsy, fartsy film of absolute nonsense using 16mm cameras where nothing happens, long stares and no story. French Dispatch was unwatchable, I had to turn it off 20 minutes in.
This is a joke, right?
@CokeheadTortoise i am offended Tusk is in the same sentence as silent bob the reboot
I think the only people who could enjoy that movie are extremely eccentric cinephiles (there are probably a couple hundred in the world), and snobs or pretentious people who like to like things that other people don't "get". Just look at all the comments on this and other videos, going on about set design and combining mediums- who cares? I'm a musician and a tone snob, but i don't appreciate an album for its stereo panning or microphone placement. These are things that are meant to be ignored, so the music can come through. If you took away the frills from this movie, and made it an acoustic version of itself, there would be almost nothing left. You certainly couldn't hum it.
possibly the most boring choice of a narrator for anything done thus far on Anderson.
First.
Wow another reddit movie... SOOOOOO surprised........
Wes Anderson has his quirky characters and specific aesthetic, but I wouldn't call it reddit. Star Wars and Marvel are reddit movies. Anderson makes art that actually provokes some thought and had love put into it even if it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Passer is trolling
I've been bamboozled
I liked the film ok. I will probably like it more on a rewatch