The Phoenician Scheme: Movie Trailer
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Great Auk
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I kind of agree. He has definitely been cultivating a certain aesthetic the last ~15 years.
Luckily for me I still find it unique compared to everyone else and so I still enjoy the films.
Pimpollo818
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same stye, the movies vary quite a bit though. both in story and quality.
The Darjeeling Limited is probably my favorite.
AJUMP23
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His framing of a shoot is always wonderful.
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yes, I find his films technically very well executed, even when the particular film might not interest me
it's why I don't mind much that his style varies very little. he does what he does very well.
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Audiophile
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I loved everything from Rushmore through to the first half of The French Dispatch, then that faltered in the second half & Asteroid City was a mess; it had couple of strong moments but it really was all over the place. I rewatched everything (and a couple I missed) a year or so back, from Bottle Rocket through to Asteroid City in order of release and the fall off and lack of focus in that was so apparent in contrast to the others.
I'll check this out and may enjoy it (and to be fair, Michael Cera looks like the standout just from this trailer), but after this, I feel he'll be served well by going back to the middleground style he had in movies like The Darjeeling Limited (one of my favourite films), The Royal Tenenbaums or Rushmore; they're stylised but not entirely on the nose and as rigidly framed / styled like he's been in his last few movies. Or he could just do something a bit fresh.
I really appreciate the style but it's getting a bit on the nose at this point, it's starting to feel like a caricature of itself and the last one & a ~half feature films haven't had the sauce to back it up.
Even though these still have moments of emotion, his older stuff had a lot more heart overall, I feel like I'm being distanced by the style now. After spending two decades steadily turning up the stylisation, this'll be his fourth live action feature with it at full tilt and I know exactly what I'm gonna get as result. He used to be "style with substance" or "substance with style", but he's fallen into "style as substance"; a totally legit approach and not inherently bad, but I think you can only get away with that for so long before it wears thin.
I'll check this out and may enjoy it (and to be fair, Michael Cera looks like the standout just from this trailer), but after this, I feel he'll be served well by going back to the middleground style he had in movies like The Darjeeling Limited (one of my favourite films), The Royal Tenenbaums or Rushmore; they're stylised but not entirely on the nose and as rigidly framed / styled like he's been in his last few movies. Or he could just do something a bit fresh.
I really appreciate the style but it's getting a bit on the nose at this point, it's starting to feel like a caricature of itself and the last one & a ~half feature films haven't had the sauce to back it up.
Even though these still have moments of emotion, his older stuff had a lot more heart overall, I feel like I'm being distanced by the style now. After spending two decades steadily turning up the stylisation, this'll be his fourth live action feature with it at full tilt and I know exactly what I'm gonna get as result. He used to be "style with substance" or "substance with style", but he's fallen into "style as substance"; a totally legit approach and not inherently bad, but I think you can only get away with that for so long before it wears thin.
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DKehoe
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Looks great. I loved Asteroid City. This scene is one that I think about and find myself going back to a lot.
Anderson's staging, shot composition and dialogue are so precisely constructed that these moments of humanity really hit and are heightened by the contrast. So for me that style isn't just for its own sake but contributes to the emotional depth.
Anderson's staging, shot composition and dialogue are so precisely constructed that these moments of humanity really hit and are heightened by the contrast. So for me that style isn't just for its own sake but contributes to the emotional depth.
Hugare
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I disagree
His stilted dialogue makes all of his movies so emotionally apathetic. I love his movies, but they've never resonated with me emotionally.
Love his movies, love his style, but I wanted something more human from him for once.
DKehoe
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Fair enough, obviously what emotionally resonates with someone is a personal thing.
For me, I think the stilted, carefully crafted nature of the dialogue can then give you the contrast for when those more openly emotional moments break through. I view it as being a heightened version of how so much of our every day lives are artifice, each of us playing a role to some extent. But underneath it there can be these warm, deeply personal connections in moments like the clip I posted above or these where