Thursday, May 29, 2008

The darjeeling limited

Darjeeling...
So wes anderson came up with a couple of 'different' camera angles, wow... incredible that you can frame a 'cinema shot' like a painting and it has a nice effect,, and wow isn't it incredible that you never forget that fact, and you make your movies 100% about framing a shot!!!!!!!!!! ok for those of you who don't know know Wes Anderson is a pretty cool director, who did Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums (one of my favs) The life Aquatic, and goody, and now Darjeeling Limited. I really loved Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums, in fact tenenbaums is in my top five... but even his next piece, 'the life aquatic' which i loved,, even then i was saying i am getting sick of the framed camera angle. And it's like he can't do casting, it's like wow i made one movie with 'certain' people and 'certain' camera angles, and it was a success so why don't i do it over and over and over again... even at the start of darjeeling, the imagery sugests bill murray handing over the torch to adrien brody as one misses the train and the other watches with a sorrowful look.. at first i was thinking fuck. it's another slow paced bill murray sob piece, fuck it, but thankfully murray was only in it for a minute... now don't get me wrong i love rushmore and tenebaums and lost in translation, and to an extent broken flowers with murray , but god damn it even if it's an indie piece there is no good in rehashing the same character over and over and over and over again (murray, schwartzman etc..._ even if its an indie piece you can still be held liable for sapping every commercial and creative drop from one piece of independant thinking!!!!!
so whoever, if anyone, and i know jroc (god bless his sole i hope you feel okay soon enough) forsythe and lachy) so if anyone has a comment i would like to hear about it, because iw ant to know if i'm alone in this criticism, i remeber tellign glynn about how i was dissapointed that wes anderson seemed to care soo much about a shot, after i first saw life aquatic... it seems he has a good shot a few nice pieces of music, and some autor camera angles, and hey presto he has created an empire, and good on him for doing that... and i hate being critical of someone who is out there creating, so yeah... I just wish he would cast some other people so at least the camera angles wouldn't seem so pronounced... i mean jesus there are other fifty.sixty year old actresses out there who don't go by the name of angelcia houston, and maybe jason schwartzman isn't in too many other movies is because he isn't THAT good!!! and has a very limted range!!!!!!!!!!

If you haven't seen any of the movies i'm talking about then you probally won't know what i'm talking about, but that also means you could watch life aquatic or darjeeling without thinking it a copy, ven if it is a copy by a director who is an autorand is copying himself for lack of a better idea. Because we can all come up with an original camera angle and then get some financial backing so we can ire a big name actor and then strap some 'realist' piece of crap story together and call it art and get millions, simply because movies these days are soooo generic that if you come up with somethign simple and different and then rehash it you can make millions... anyway this blog is weird for me because i'm not normally cynical, and i've always hated cynics, but since being married i guess i'm looking at things a bit more realistically and less rose-tinted glasses. Anyway it's been two weeks and i love being married, it';s the best decision i have ever made, and it was the best day of my life... so i think if we get some finacers together and combined with my creative vision we could take Stone to the big time, and make the big bucks... whos with me people.. albeit i have had a few wines... so it; all about the realist pieces that could have some faniciful setting but are just slow pieces about life and such and and wow i've had to much to drink so my mind has wandered, it's actually pretty good considering ive polished two bottles of wine and can still type coherently, philosphically, humbly, and with perfect punctuation....

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

no, no, no you did not just diss on angelica houston... but the point about repeated actors and shots are so true (see coen bros. movies and every stanley kubrick film ever made...)
but, i mean, come on. angelica is one handsome woman. and this is coming from a man who voluntarily has sex with other men...
plu
J

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