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Post by sgev1977 on May 1, 2022 20:55:58 GMT
I will inaugurate this thread with something happening on Twitter today. It’s his birthday and a dumb white woman used a lot of postmodernism language to acuse him of being a fascist filmmaker! I hate when people mention other people race but I did it here because obviously it’s almost always white peoples attacking others for being… whites! And no, Anderson is liked also in non-white countries and by non-white people, white woman!Also contrary to what Twitter thinks, he casts a lot of non-white people!
Anyway, I just saw a guy claiming she is a smart woman who could write an intelligent article about Anderson cinema and its politics but I tend to think she is very stupid because there is a clear definition of fascist art and Anderson is very far a way of that! I would recommend that guy and the stupid woman to read Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism if they are REALLY interested on the theme but I’m guessing they are just a pair of ridiculous ahistorical people who use huge words they don’t understand to attack people they don’t like. Just Twitter being itself!
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Post by llminnowpea on May 1, 2022 21:13:30 GMT
Is it like how some people in America think that antifa is fascist? When it is absolutely the opposite of that, but they think Trump knows best, so believe him when he says antifa is bad?
Some people also think Bernie (from VT) is far far left and he really isn't. He is just more left than the current Democrats, but not far far left.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 1, 2022 21:51:08 GMT
TBF these people are left wing people not conservatives. Again, she was using postmodern language and some people defending her are saying her critics just “don’t understand her intellectual language”. It’s not REALLY “intellectual” just “postmodern”. The kind that it’s very common in over privileged universities. Conservatives would never speak like that! But probably, neither real left wingers. You know, those worried about class struggle not Michel Foucault!
Ironically, it seems her problem was that he presented the young revolutionaries in the French Dispatch as silly young kids. I said ironically because it was a reference to the 1968 students protests in Paris and I can imagine people like her calling “Boomers!” to the real old students who participate in those protests! Also, movies like Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses also kind of do that! The movie is dedicated to the Cinémathèque Française (which was closed for its involvement with the movement) but without the movie being about the movement itself (there is just a mention about the girl going to a protest, I think) there is this apolitical and lightning feeling about the young protagonists that it’s very reminiscent to Anderson’s characters nativity. In both the boy has sex with a much older woman, too!
Also because the other stories are about jails!? I just saw a discussion about the last episode: someone said the protagonist was actually a black gay man and the hero, an Asian cook and someone else said that was racist because it’s clear about white people wanting minorities to be overachievers! *facepalm*
And there are comments about him loving uniforms and order! And, of course, the past! You know, Boy Scouts, Françoise Hardy and the New Yorker all fascist!
Anyway, I think it’s better to ignore them and concentrate on polemics like who is more powerful Dr.Strange or Wanda! Much less ridiculous and more mature! Lol
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Post by queenzod on May 1, 2022 21:55:16 GMT
Well, Bernie has all those radical Communist, Socialist ideas, like people being able to have affordable healthcare and getting paid a decent wage, taxing the ultra billionaires and the like. Fascist! 😂
It never fails to amaze me how people fling those terms around without having a clue what they mean.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 1, 2022 22:28:04 GMT
In celebration of his birthday, I will watch the only film I have never watched in his filmography: Isle of Dogs! Knowing his record, I fear for those dogs! That’s a better criticism against him: he HATES dogs! Lol
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Post by sgev1977 on May 2, 2022 0:44:05 GMT
I finished it and it’s so lovely! It has some cruelty but that’s what make Anderson movies special, they aren’t pure sugar! There’s always something cruel, ugly or sad. It even has some scenes similar to the one described in “Henry Sugar”: you can see the internal organs of the dogs and people when they are receiving the vaccine and it makes effect in their bodies!
About the stupid accusations, I just wanna said that for me his main influence, at least regarding his style, is Jacques Tati (certainly not Leni Riefenstahl!)* but again, those are people very ignorant who doesn’t know about history, politics, art nor cinema! Also, maybe he sometimes could be awkward about it but he has this curiosity about other countries and cultures that sometime ago was a characteristic of progressiveness. Now it’s about stay in your line and those were considered closed minded people and they really are!
EDITED *They were talking about his use of symmetry has an example of fascist art. That’s not exactly the same and again his symmetry is more Tati than Riefenstahl!
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Post by queenzod on May 2, 2022 5:41:02 GMT
I like Bernie very much, but I don’t actually think he’d make a good POTUS. He ticks off too many people, his agenda isn’t “popular,” and therefore it’s unworkable, and his supporters are uncompromising. Politically speaking, he’s too divisive. But he sure sees what’s happening and speaks the truth for the people. It’s too bad.
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Post by queenzod on May 2, 2022 6:40:44 GMT
Bernie’s inability to get a national agenda cooking just goes to show that there’s a number of powerful factions within our democracy who aren’t really interested in pulling everyone up to a better standard of living because that would mean they wouldn’t be able to feed their greedy capitalistic goals and strip the workers of what little they earn. 😕
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 15, 2022 15:27:32 GMT
Anderson will be at the 54 serate Sotto Le Stelle del Cinema presenting a restoration of Bogdanivich's The Last Picture Show. For a moment I thought "that's the movie BC said he saw with him after Raimi asked him to watch it" but then I remember that it was actually Paper Moon! I guess Anderson is a big fan and was there to introduce BC to Bogdanivich's cinema! "Il più atteso è certamente Wes Anderson, già habitué in incognito della Cineteca, che sarà per la prima volta davanti al pubblico di Piazza Maggiore lunedì 4 luglio per presentare il nuovo restauro di L’ultimo spettacolo di di Peter Bogdanovic, regista di culto scomparso pochi mesi fa." zero.eu/en/news/wes-anderson-in-piazza-maggiore-ospite-del-cinema-ritrovato-ecco-il-programma/Anyway, I hope he is asked about Henry Sugar. Campion talked publicly about TPOTD and BC for the first time at another Italian festival.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 19, 2022 1:07:34 GMT
I just watched Fantastic Mr Fox again after years of not watching it! I watched it in the big screen the first time and have watched it a few times after it but I still had forgotten a few scenes (Jarvis Cocker is there with a character that looks exactly like him in real life! Considering he frequently does Letter Lives, it would be nice to see him again with both BC and WA in Henry Sugar!)
It’s beautiful how Wes Anderson style perfectly fitted to Roal Dahl storytelling. I think it’s my favorite adaptation of Dahl work alongside the original The Witches.
I can’t wait for Henry Sugar but sadly I suspect it won’t be released very soon! This past week, Netflix announced they will stream Matilda the Musical in December so I am guessing Henry Sugar will be released in December 2023. Hopefully, they take it to a festival. Maybe Asteroid City could be released at Berlinale (Anderson is a favorite there) or Cannes and Henry Sugar could be at Venice?
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