Wes Anderson Influence

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In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.

In the early 1900’s silent films amazed audiences with images, later talkies impressed with sound, today we have 3D. As technology continues to evolve so too will film genres. Genres, while having some shared characteristics, also differ in terms of stylistic devices used. For instance, the dramatic film “The Notebook” effectively uses color to reinforce theme and has plausible performers as the two main protagonists.

Cinematic Language: The accepted systems, methods, or customs by which movies communicate. Cinematic conventions are flexible; they are not “rules”.

Pulp Fiction by Quinton Tarantino falls into the genre of a Gangster film but has elements of other genres as well like Film Noir and Black Comedy. Pulp Fiction has a balance of drama and comedy along with hard to watch scenes like rape, violence, gore and heavy drug use. Tarantino’s style of movie making help make Pulp Fiction the classic it is today. The mise-en-scene, cinematography and other elements of movie, including sound effects and round characters leave us intrigued as well as content with the story structure as well as its ending.

‘There are…two kinds of film makers: one invents an imaginary reality; the other confronts an existing reality and attempts to understand it, criticise it…and finally, translate it into film’

The creation and consumption of films are a common favorite pastime for many people and have been for hundreds of years, but while some films can seem deceptively simple, many elements go into creating a scene, much less an entire movie. Directors use these elements which include, but are not limited to style, mood, composition and special effects to create a product that we often don’t acknowledge without looking deeper into the film. These components together are called Mise en Scène (Ebert). Of course, film can be enjoyed leisurely but there are so many more aspects of film to be explored and analyzed such as the composition of camera movement, lighting, color, sounds and music. In this case, I chose to analyze the “Redrum” scene from the renowned film, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick. In this scene, Danny Torrence, a five year old boy wanders around his mother’s room with a knife in hand, muttering the word “Redrum” over and over again before scrawling it across the door. I feel that a lot of this scene’s mood and style relies heavily on the camera work of the scene, the lighting and colors, and the music incorporated into the segment.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

The 1981 film Blow Out and the 1976 film Carrie are just two of over thirty films directed by Brian De Palma. Although they span an array of genres and topics, De Palma’s films are recognizable by his distinct director’s touch. De Palma’s films adhere to Andrew Sarris’s concept the auteur theory, which posits that each film contains the director’s distinguishable artistic personality. This artistic nature of both the film and director is evident in the unique and consistent visual style and thematic elements present in each of the films. Blow Out and Carrie are executed with control and a special attention to detail, so that each shot and scene is carefully constructed and inserted intentionally to drive the plot forward. De Palma’s films contain an expert use of visual grammar, in which the stories are told as much with camera moves and editing as dialogue. Like many of his films, Blow Out and Carrie feature certain trademark elements of De Palma’s work: the recurring theme of the male gaze, and the use of cinematic devices including a split diopter lens, slow motion, and 360 degree pan. De Palma’s use of these recurring cinematic tropes enable him to simultaneously place his unique director’s touch on these films as he crafts suspense filled visual masterpieces.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is the work of American director Wes Anderson. His works have a strong personal style: bright colour, the full symmetry of the composition, a straight frame, a deliberately orderly stance, unique visual style and narrative mode. In his film, a sense of humour is often through "Deadpan” expression: actors often deadpan and no body movements, but in the restraint and slight change, as well as in the pause between the odd cold humour. The hues, props and sets of his films are often colourful and whimsical. There are still plenty of these factors in The Grand Budapest Hotel, but many new elements are added.

These individually listed items are used in nearly every Wes Anderson film, but most specifically reminds me of Moonrise Kingdom- two smitten twelve year olds run away from their families to be together. Within Moonrise Kingdom, there is a constant theme of running away, and not being quite prepared enough even though you were so sure you would be- even though Sam claims to have everything figured out, it's pretty evident he doesn't, and Suzy doesn't want to tell him that either. I like to think that PJ is a big fan of Wes Anderson's style, as this is heavily reflected throughout all he creates, a lot of the time within the colour palette. Referring back to Colour Bandits, PJ's colour palette within that is so simplistic yet so beautiful, just

Extraterrestrial carnivorous plant feeds of human flesh and blood to survive, and drives its human slave to kill.

Fargo, a dark and somewhat humorous crime movie by the Coen Brothers delves into themes of isolation, morality, and greed. And throughout the film, a very prominent role is played by the setting. The Coen brothers make sure that no one misses where the story takes place – small town upper Midwest in the middle of a frigid winter. The film makes extensive use of the frozen landscape, the characterization of rural Midwesterners, and realistic depiction of the events of the story in order to emphasize these themes. There is a great deal of contrast in this movie between moral and amoral characters as well as contrast between what the viewer expects from such dark

Wes Anderson (born 1969), best know as an Academy Award winning American film director and screenwriter is respected and has mastered the art of symmetry. His films are extremely identifiable, as his constant usage of symmetry within his feature films create a powerful visual aid which are capable of communicating complex meanings that cannot be conveyed visually without the addition of symmetry. Anderson 's work is also notable for his distinctive narrative writing and style and also the inclusion of adding reoccurring collaborations with various actors and creatives (McClintock, P, 2014).

“Just before the Hollywood film supposedly reached its ‘level of classical perfection’, original scores, written by many of the world’s finest composers, are increasingly in use” (James 2009). While in late 1937, the public debate over the aesthetic quality of film music indicates, “some composers do not understand the needs of the motion picture that their music is too high-brow”(Cooke, 2001).