Wes Anderson's trademark: Anarchy.

[Irene Manor]

In all of Wes' movies he has a scene that shows a total disrespect for the law.

Bottle Rocket - Most of the movie, but namely the scene where they are blasting fireworks from the moving car.

Rushmore - The Blume/Fischer war sequence

The Royal Tenenabaums - Royal's day out with his grandkids.

In all his movies there are also scenes with people running, giving authority a hard time, general rule breaking, and other things.

I am totally saying that Anderson's big trademark is anarchy, or chaos, so to speak. In the liner notes for Rushmore he talks about using British invasion music to describe the young anger felt by his lead character. Punk rock -- all of his movies use at least one song, and that music is the essence of anarchy. And I mean not like anarchy in a political sense, but like how street kids use it. I think that means more. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

Any thoughts?

[bluntman86]

i am a huge wes anderson fan but i never really noticed that trademark to be honest,i'm glad you pointed it out,that is really cool man.all of his movies do have really frantic,rebellious characters.that's what makes them so cool.just hearing some of the classic scenes described makes me love his movies even more.
more anderson anarchy to support irene's theory...

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS-royal brings richie and chas's kids to illegal dog fights.

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS-eli driving his car recklessly into a building.

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS-eli does weed,mescaline and a variety of other illegal drugs.

RUSHMORE-max builds a bond fire in the schoolyard and flicks off dr. guggenheim.

RUSHMORE-max's refusal to get off the phone when asked by the school staff member.

RUSHMORE-max demolishes most of his school's property including the baseball field and builds an aquarium.

RUSHMORE-max sleeps during mr. blume's speech at the assembly.

RUSHMORE-mr. blume puts his empty pop can under the clean towels in the elevator at the hotel.

BOTTLE ROCKET-the armed robberies of course.

BOTTLE ROCKET-anthony sticks his feet out the window while lying down in the back seat of the moving car.

BOTTLE ROCKET-bob goes through a stop sign.


[This message has been edited by bluntman86 (edited 03-26-2002).]

[Irene Manor]

RUSHMORE AND THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS - Smoking indoors.

[bluntman86]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Irene Manor:
RUSHMORE AND THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS - Smoking indoors.

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lol man,this is a great post.too bad we seem to be the only 2 people interested.

[Irene Manor]

Yeah, if the topic was about boobs or about black sucking shit for wanting to win Oscars -- This would go on for 10 pages.


Topics that talk shit about movies are always more popular than the ones about movies.

[bluntman86]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Irene Manor:
Yeah, if the topic was about boobs or about black sucking shit for wanting to win Oscars -- This would go on for 10 pages.


Topics that talk shit about movies are always more popular than the ones about movies.</font>

i know,it's really a shame man.