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Post by queenzod on Mar 30, 2023 15:31:01 GMT
Frankly I don’t really understand WA movies but if he wants to make a movie with nothing but white actors why shouldn’t he? Not that he does but this microscopic examination of the worth of a movie based solely on the trailer (and not a very good examination at that) is silly. He’s the filmmaker, it’s his creation. A diverse cast doesn’t guarantee a good movie. Yes, representation is nice and great but it’s not necessarily something that makes or breaks a film or is needed in every instance.
Are we going to say that all films from now on must have actors from all quota categories? Because that does seem to be where it’s heading. One each from slot A, B, C, etc. black, white, Latino, Asian, native, gay, straight, asexual, man, woman, non-binary, trans, adult, child, young, old, large, small… How shall I ever relate to the movie unless I see my exact representative niche onscreen?
Okay, I realize I’ve just thrown out a straw man (person?), which is a terrible manner in which to argue but this is getting ridiculous.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 30, 2023 18:42:32 GMT
Of course! He is a white guy so it's not a surprise if he mostly cast white actors. But there's this wrong idea that he hates diverse casts when it's not truth at ALL.
I remember a decades old article actually contradicting this idea and asking how for example, Noah Baumbach, allegedly a similar but more "realistic" filmmaker, used to make all his movies with only white actors but never received any criticism about it (Don Cheadle is in his last movie)
Anderson's first movie had a Mexican leading lady. He is from Texas so you can see, if not Mexican actors, a few Mexican characters including the artist/killer from a prominent Jewish Mexican family played by Benicio Del Toro and Tony Revolori in The French Dispatch.
He is also obsessed with Indian culture so he did The Darjeeling Limited as an homage to Satyajit Ray and with a few Indian actors including Amara Karan as another romantic interest. Waris Ahluwalia is a Wes Anderson favorite who you can frequently see playing small roles in a lot of his movie! Actually, his close friend Kumar Pallana was a huge trademark of his films until his death. He was always there and you always knew he will be there!
I just saw on Twitter someone claiming Revolori was just a token casting for The Great Budapest Hotel" after being corrected for claiming he never cast minorities. How it is a token role when he is one of the leads, narrator and the one who we just as audiences identify for most of the film! Is it because he isn't playing the "exuberant" character (that was Ralph Fiennes), but then he and, mostly, Del Toro played the crazy lead character in one of the four or five stories in The French Dispatch. Actually, the best character there was the other lead played by Jeffrey Wright in the last story. Two leads in 4 stories are POC (5, if you count the bits with Bill Murray) and the polemic one with Timothée Chalamet and Francés McDorman has an Algerian-French actress as the third lead! Actually you can make a thesis about how he is obsessed with interracial couples but maybe he is so casual about it that people doesn't noticed it!
I don't know. You can criticized him for the way he uses minorities. Although I don't see anything particularly wrong with it but saying he never cast POC is bonkers! And nowadays, he is going for a lot of non-white male leads when before was mostly about female romantic interests. He is a man so he mostly is about male leads.
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 3, 2023 23:16:15 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 13, 2023 12:40:46 GMT
Wes Anderson's Asteroid City in competition at Cannes.
“Club Zero,” Jessica Hausner “Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer “Fallen Leaves,” Aki Kaurismaki “Les Filles D’Olfa” (“Four Daughters”), Kaouther Ben Hania “Anatomie D’une Chute,” Justine Triet “Monster,” Kore-eda Hirokazu “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire,” Nanni Moretti “La Chimera,” Alice Rohrwacher “About Dry Grasses,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan “L’Ete Dernier,” Catherine Breillat “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant,” Tran Anh Hung “Rapito,” Marco Bellocchio “May December,” Todd Haynes “Firebrand,” Karim Ainouz “The Old Oak,” Ken Loach “Perfect Days,” Wim Wenders “Banel Et Adama,” Ramata-Toulaye Sy“Jeunesse,”Wang Bing
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 13, 2023 12:56:44 GMT
I hope he is asked about his Netflix project during press day! 😉
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 13, 2023 13:28:46 GMT
I was perplexed by this!
I thought he was in the main competition! I sincerely think he is the greatest Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel. Almodóvar is very popular outside Spain and his style is what people immediately think when they hear “Spanish cinema” but Erice, who is the totally opposite, is just in another level. And personally, it took me some time to get into Almodóvar because I’m not very kin to “melodrama”. Erice is much more subtle. One of his main influences is Yasujiro Ozu, after all. Japanese cinema and classic painters.
But apart of an allegedly “more difficult” style, he also barely have made films. I thought it was because he wanted it this way but I recently saw a documentary on him and he was actually kinda “banned” by producers because a false allegation that he was a difficult person to work with! His ex-producer spread the rumor after he forced him to stop filming his movie The South and edited it with the material he already had and releasing it as, what the filmmaker considered, an unfinished work. According the everyone, he wasn’t obviously unhappy but he did what the producer told him without a big fuss and always behaved in the best possible way for someone in his situation but the producer had a lot of personal problems at the time and kinda took it out on him. Erice also never publicly responded to the attacks and sadly his reputation was so damaged that he just could do a documentary after that film (from 1983!) and ended as a film teacher. Now finally he is returning with a fictional film so yep, it’s a huge surprise he isn’t in the main line-up!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 23, 2023 18:34:16 GMT
Asteroid City is being acclaimed by some and strongly criticized by others. It's not a surprise these days but I just love this very poignant paragraph in one of the reviews, www.vulture.com/2023/05/asteroid-city-review-wes-anderson-has-finally-gone-mad.htmlI think that's a great observation. There's a lot of artificiality in his movies but what make them great it's the creeping fear and pain suggested on all those pretty images.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 27, 2023 20:18:14 GMT
I just saw that the World of Reel blog, which was championing Anderson and his two next to release films, was pretty disappointed by Asteroid City! Lol Apparently he didn’t liked The French Dispatch neither and thinks Asteroid is his worst film since his debut film which was actually a pretty good film! Scorsese loved it and talked very fondly about it at the time and it totally failed at the box office so probably Scorsese recommendation helped Anderson with his career.
Asteroid was loved by some of his fans but his detractors and ex fans are “confirming” their fears. I personally loved The French Dispatch but it’s indeed a very baroque film that moves very quickly so you really have to be very patient with it and at the same time very attentive so you don’t miss the multiple details. Also it has a lot of stories and characters and some are more interesting than others. Sure, the Chalamet/McDorman segment was the weakest of all but the criticism calling it “fascist” was extremely ridiculous! And that’s an example that how some of his critics are just bonkers! (Not all of them, of course, there are some valid criticisms).
I think “Henry Sugar” has the advantage that the story is by someone else but I would had wished for him to center on only one story instead of four. It could happen the same that with The French Dispatch (some of the stories are pretty strong but they are slightly dragged by the weaker ones). We will see! Probably, it also will help it that it wasn’t so hyped like Asteroid City! The cast seems to be small (another advantage) and a lot of people doesn’t even know it exist because they were talking about the big production with a lot of stars released at Cannes!
EDITED Also we should get Wes Anderson’s interviews in the next few days because Asteroid City will be released in 15 days in the USA. I hope he talks about “Henry Sugar”. And Italian site claimed he said he was editing it right now and a Spanish newspaper asked him but about the controversy around the censoring of Roald Dahl books. Apart of that and the quotes by Rupert Friend, there was nothing!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 2, 2023 15:08:20 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 15, 2023 0:13:39 GMT
I’m amazed about how unprepared are mainstream journalists! deadline.com/2023/06/asteroid-city-wes-anderson-next-movie-bill-murray-podcast-1235417391/That’s not Anderson’s next film! And, of course, there are rumors that Benicio de Toro, Michael Cera and Jeff Goldblum are the three actors in it! The worst is that if you heard the interview, Anderson actually mentions his next “Roal Dahl’s short films” with “a smaller ensamble” (compared to Asteroid City). He says that’s his next films (in plural, actually) then he talks about a script he finished before the strike with only three actors! Not his next film but “a script”! The guy a) didn’t knew about his next projects; b) didn’t actually put attention to what he was saying! Well, a missed opportunity to knew more about “Henry Sugar”!
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