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Prologue: Once upon a time, there was a filmmaker from Austin, Texas who gathered his friends to make a short film. His circle of friends included the Wilson brothers, Owen and Luke, and Robert Musgrave. Robert would never be seen again after a feature-length version of this short film. The film is entitled Bottle Rocket (1992, released 1994) and was remade as the identically titled Bottle Rocket (1996).  Figure 1a The director is Wes Anderson. Filmgoers may confuse Wes Anderson with other Andersons, such as Paul Thomas Anderson, director of Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood (both Oscar nominated). Or Paul W.S. Anderson, director of the Resident Evil motion pictures and a futuristic retelling of The Three Musketeers. Wes Anderson is responsible writing and directing unique, quirky comedies. Among his hallmarks are striking, vibrant visuals calling back to the elegant symmetry of Stanley Kubrick; reliable use of British Invasion pop tunes; witty dialogue reminiscent of Preston Sturges, and an endlessly recurring cast (diagram below). Chapter One: THE FILMS OF WES ANDERSON: Bottle Rocket (1992 - short film - 1.33:1) Starring Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and Robert Musgrave  Bottle Rocket (1994 - Columbia Pictures - 1.85:1) Ibid, plus James Caan Written by Anderson and Owen Wilson  Rushmore (1998 - Touchstone Pictures - 2.35:1) Starring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox Written by Anderson and Wilson  The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 - Touchstone Pictures - 2.35:1) Starring Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Bill Murray Written by Anderson and Wilson Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (2002)  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004 - Touchstone Pictures - 2.35:1) Starring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Bud Cort Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach  The Darjeeling Limited (2007 - Fox Searchlight Pictures - 2.35:1) Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray (cameo) Written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola Hotel Chevalier (2007 - short film - 2.35:1) Starring Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman Written by Anderson Shown as prologue preceding The Darjeeling Limited theatrically and on home video  Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009 - Fox Searchlight Pictures - 1.85:1) Featuring the vocal talents of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and many others Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach Based upon the novel by Roald Dahl (published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., United States) Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score (2010)  Moonrise Kingdom (2012 - Focus Features - 1.85:1) Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban Written by Anderson and Baumbach Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (2013) Nominated for Palme d'Or [Cannes Film Festival] (2012)  The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014 - Fox Searchlight Pictures - 1.85:1/1.33:1/2.35:1) Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Tony Revolori Written by Anderson and Hugo Guinness List of accolades and rewards received Chapter Two: You will find nearly all of Wes Anderson's films in the highly admired Criterion Collection (est. 1984, New York City) on Blu-Ray Disc and DVD format.        Here is a YouTube video with excerpts from the films of Wes Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56Ta6umxTI And one of my personal favorite moments from his films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5SRdYsscLc 
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*jerks off into own mouth* ah the authentic Wes Anderson experience
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Aug 21, 2016 01:34
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I can stick my dick into my own rear end in a top hat
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Aug 21, 2016 01:36
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thank you for this good thread OP, wes seems to be a love or hate type of thing
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Aug 21, 2016 01:38
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The one with gene hackman was good the rest suck
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Aug 21, 2016 01:44
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amityville anus posted:I can stick my dick into my own rear end in a top hat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRibnHiuZkQ
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Aug 21, 2016 01:45
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Precious, twee nonsense.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:47
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Life Aquatic sucks and nerds only like it because you watch Bill Murray get high and listen to David Bowie in Portuguese. Wait that sounds awesome. So why was it so loving boring to watch?
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Aug 21, 2016 01:50
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Life Aquatic is kind of like the weirdest telling of Beowulf ever and I love it. Moonrise Kingdom is probably my favorite so far, but I need to see more of his stuff. My first Anderson film was Darjeeling Limited, which I saw in the theaters.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:54
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I think The Life Aquatic will be appreciated more over time. The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel are drat near perfect, though. I didn't care for Rushmore or Moonrise Kingdom much, but I've only seen them once. (Bottle Rocket is pretty good and the bookstore robbery is great)
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Aug 21, 2016 01:54
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This was playing in my head when i made that post
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Aug 21, 2016 01:55
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I thought Darjeeling Limited sucked and was boring, am I just missing something? The others I've seen were fun to watch, even though they are paced really goddamn slow.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:57
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I saw Moonrise Kingdom and felt uncomfortable and then googled a picture of Wes Anderson and the two confirmed my suspicions that he's a pedo.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:59
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Life Aquatic is not the best film but its the most Wes Anderson film
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Aug 21, 2016 02:00
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LegoPirateNinja posted:Life Aquatic is not the best film but its the most Wes Anderson film it was pretty good too boot
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Aug 21, 2016 02:02
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Blacktoll posted:I saw Moonrise Kingdom and felt uncomfortable and then googled a picture of Wes Anderson and the two confirmed my suspicions that he's a pedo. I think he's just 
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Aug 21, 2016 02:02
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Nice post, OP. Enjoying these director threads. Do a David Lynch one next.
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Aug 21, 2016 02:03
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Wizard Master posted:Nice post, OP. Enjoying these director threads. Do a David Lynch one next. I'd do Lynch, but I haven't seen a lot of his key works yet. Still need to see Dune, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Muholland Dr., and Inland Empire. There's only a few directors I've seen all their existing work - Kubrick, Anderson, Tati, Melies, and Mel Brooks. I'm close on Hitchcock (seen all but two of his American films and his non-major British films), Welles (two left), and Tarantino (got The Hateful Eight from Netflix right now).
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Aug 21, 2016 02:12
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Re: David Lunch https://youtu.be/snhiofL2Rh4
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Aug 21, 2016 02:15
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amityville anus posted:Re: David Lunch
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Aug 21, 2016 02:17
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the best Wes Anderson clip is only 3 sec long https://youtube.com/watch?v=5dMCHHHO2V0
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Aug 21, 2016 02:18
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I'M GONNA MACE YOU IN THE FACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6ANzdhy1s
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Aug 21, 2016 02:22
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Iron Prince posted:the best Wes Anderson clip is only 3 sec long
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Aug 21, 2016 02:22
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Turdo posted:I thought Darjeeling Limited sucked and was boring, am I just missing something? The others I've seen were fun to watch, even though they are paced really goddamn slow. Nah I thought the same. Easily I think his worst one. Moonrise was better but a bit of a dud to me too. Budapest hotel was cool and v pretty so he can still make good movies at least
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Aug 21, 2016 04:24
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wes andrerson is cool and his movies are really good but sometimes he really goes too far with wes anderson-isms and its kind of eye roll worthy fantastic mr fox is really good but also i feel like the ending is really weird. like like up until the very end its setting up a situation where the awkward kid just continues being awkward and instead he just like suddenly becomes physically talented and saves the day and everything. other than that tho its great
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Aug 21, 2016 04:36
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Your thread is great. Congratulations. Seriously.
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Aug 21, 2016 04:54
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Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite but they're all pretty good, though I haven't seen Darjeeling
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Aug 21, 2016 05:11
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I was reading about him once and found a website trying to prove he was a pedophile. It was kinda convincing.
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Aug 21, 2016 05:12
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Isn't everyone in Hollywood a pedophile anyways?
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Aug 21, 2016 05:15
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This was something like "He has little boys in all his movies and they make out and get boners or wear speedos" and "He focuses on sexual taboos" like the brother sister relationship in Royal Tennanbaums and the man who liked old 85 year old women in Grand Budapest. I think Wes probably is attracted to little boys. His next film will probably have some random little boys in it for no reason like he always does.
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Aug 21, 2016 05:21
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ooohh, wes anderson! i love him. my favorite is the one where it's really fussy and stylized, the writing is really arch, and none of the characters register as anything close to recognizable human beings. you know, that one.
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Aug 21, 2016 05:22
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Saturday Night Live is generally poo poo but even Wes Anderson was too low-hanging of a fruit for them
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Aug 21, 2016 05:23
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dead gay son posted:Your thread is great. Congratulations. Seriously. do you have a link to where your name came from?
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Aug 21, 2016 05:25
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moonrise kingdom made me uncomfortable and i haven't seen gbh but i like the reSt dude has some mommy issues tho you can tell that from the way he writes women lol
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Aug 21, 2016 05:27
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are you from cineD. the only thing i recognize in this gay thread is AVP and the part where like the aliens are like laying eggs in pregnant women in the hospital or some poo poo that was crazy
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Aug 21, 2016 05:29
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im from cinedeez nuts
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Aug 21, 2016 05:31
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AARO posted:This was something like "He has little boys in all his movies and they make out and get boners or wear speedos" and "He focuses on sexual taboos" like the brother sister relationship in Royal Tennanbaums and the man who liked old 85 year old women in Grand Budapest. Except a lot of this is him referencing movies. The Royal Tenenbaums borrows a lot from The Magnificent Ambersons, which has a subplot of half siblings in love. The recurring theme of strong child characters is probably from his love for The 400 Blows. Rushmore particularly borrows a lot from the film.
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Aug 21, 2016 05:56
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Egbert Souse posted:
Lol you just said "His love of French films featuring boys absolves him of any suspicion from having boys in all of his films." Of course a pedophile is going to love films about little French boys. Also Rushmore was about a 15yo student in love with a teacher. This dude is definitely interested in sexual taboos.
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Aug 21, 2016 06:06
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Grand Budapest Hotel is real good and I can only describe it as magical
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The Royal Tenenbaums was important to me because it was when I really started to appreciate film as an art. I was still in high school and saw movies like 8 1/2 and Citizen Kane for the first time. The Grand Budapest Hotel is just as amazing and it helps to have some of the best characters Anderson has written. It could have been a poo poo script, but I think half the film's magic comes from one of the best casts ever. (Also, looking at IMDB and Wikipedia, I really doubt he's a pedo.)
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