Below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite posts from the Accidental Wes Anderson subreddit. This community features snapshots from real life that look like they could perfectly fit into the wild world of Wes Anderson, so we hope you’ll enjoy scrolling through the cinematic pics below. And keep reading to find conversations about Anderson’s signature style with journalist Nik Dirga and film expert Darren Mooney! “I think what’s always appealed to me the most about his style is the way he intricately crafts his worlds in a way that feels just a little askew from our own reality, but still has an emotional heart. I still get choked up by The Life Aquatic every single time I watch it, for instance,” Nik noted. “Wes fetishizes elements of reality but never entirely leaves reality behind. I think part of the reason Wes Anderson style has become a meme is that it lets us pause a second and think, ‘Hey, that old grocery store logo is kind of gorgeous in its own way, that thrift shop outfit makes you look a little like a movie star,’” Nik explained. “It lets us imagine real life as a movie.” “He does this by embracing the inherent unreality of film, presenting worlds that are very obviously constructed and not aspiring to verisimilitude or realism. He wants the audience to be aware that everything they see is constructed, and often draws attention to the artifice of the frame itself - symmetrical composition, limited planes of movement (dollies in and out or left to right, but rarely hand-held and rarely on multiple axes at once), shifting aspect ratios and even shifts between color style,” Darren explained. “It’s a lot easier to buy his characters and his style, for me, when these films take place in a realm completely separate from the mundane world,” the cinephile explained. “So my favorites would be the more stylised ones: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom. I like most of his films, but I think his weakest is The Darjeeling Limited, because I’m not sure Wes Anderson is the guy to make a movie about India.” “Paris and Vienna can feel quite quaint and old-fashioned and unreal in a way that reminds me of Anderson’s style, while the French and German countryside occasionally has houses that feel like they could have come from an Anderson production,” he noted. “But even then, there’s something magical about Anderson’s worlds that I don’t know I’ve ever felt replicated in reality, if that makes sense?” “Anderson is arguably to this modern generation of audiences what Tim Burton was to the previous generation. ‘Baby’s First Auteur’, so to speak. And there’s something beautiful in that, which you see in these trends,” Darren added. “People try to imitate it or reference it because it’s so distinctive and recognizable. That’s incredibly valuable, particularly now.” “This is what makes the AI ‘Wes Anderson trailer’ fad so frustrating to me, personally,” Darren says. “Because it takes something that is personal and is about how art is fundamentally personal, and reduces it to an algorithmic piece of content. I actually quite like the human efforts to replicate Anderson, because you inevitably see more humanity in them, and that is what the appeal of Anderson’s art is, to me.” Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
