Wes Anderson Movie About Well-Dressed Homeless People With Quirky Hobbies
Every single Wes Anderson movie, except for Bottle Rocket - which he made when he hadn’t figured out his signature style yet - is about people with money to burn and the inclination to burn it. This isn’t the same as every Wes Anderson movie being about rich people, because actual rich people have to somehow earn their wealth and do work to maintain and grow it.
The characters in Wes Anderson movies are typically free from the burden of labor all have an imaginary trust fund (the movie’s budget), which they eagerly waste on futile pursuits like pointless inventions, giant aquariums, an ocean-wide search for a specific shark, an endless stay at a hotel in France, and a trip across India with Louis Vuitton luggage. Anderson’s imagination seems mostly limited to adorning characters with colorful material objects and irrational unrealistic pursuits, and thus the magical trust fund for all his characters. This leads, naturally, to films about superficial characters with problems most people probably can’t relate to.
After Darjeeling Limited, a lot of critics complained that Wes Anderson didn’t seem to be growing as a filmmaker. He’d probably be happy not to grow as a filmmaker as long as he can get away with it, but if he wants to try something new while still clinging onto his signature style, he could make a movie about characters who have driven themselves into abject poverty by their need to wear quirky clothes while singularly pursing multi-million dollar hobbies and never working.
3 years ago