When Wes Anderson's latest work, "The French Pie," was screened in Cannes, it was hard to find a ticket. At the red carpet ceremony before the premiere, watching the vast kashi walking by, the fans who stood by the red carpet boiled over. I have to say that as a well-known director, Wes Anderson is really strong in his appeal to actors, and many well-known actors are cutscenes in his films.
Also in "French Pie", the Hollywood-level big stars who participated in the show could not count on both hands, and what was even more shocking was that some actors even had only a dozen seconds of footage.
The first is the actor we are most familiar with, Tilda Swinton. Swinton's popularity is needless to say, known as the "Immortal Goddess" by fans and fans, and every time he appears, it will always cause boiling. As an actress, she is also a regular in Wes Anderson's films, but in both the Grand Budapest Hotel and the French Pie, she is the N-woman and often dresses up as a fan of the film.
In "The Grand Budapest Hotel", Swinton plays an elderly Mrs. D, in which she is deeply infatuated with The Elder Stav and clings to the hotel when she leaves the hotel. After his death, he gave a valuable painting to Gustav. Although she is not the main character in the film, she is the trigger for the conflict between his son and Gustav, as well as the doom of Budapest. In the movie, if you don't identify it carefully, it is impossible to know that this gorgeously dressed and infatuated old lady is Swinton.
In French Pie, she plays an art critic, opening the film's second story about artists and prisons. When telling a story about an artist, it's hard to see that this is Tilda Swindon. Her appearance bears some resemblance to that of The Grand Budapest Hotel, preferring yellow clothes and high-combed hair.
It is hard to imagine that when she was talking about the artist's creation, she inadvertently released a painting that she dedicated herself to art. In the photographs she herself released, she wears only a loose bathrobe and presents herself in the pose of a classical painting in front of the painter, who creates on the canvas in front of her.
In this film, it's not just Tilda Swindon who dedicates herself to art. In the same chapter, Simone, a prison guard played by Leia Saidu, also makes a sacrifice.
In the chapter Artist and Prison, the prison guard played by Leia Saidu is the source of all inspiration for the artist, and his "Naked Simona in the Recreation Room of Prison Area J" is a modernist expression of the naked Simone. The same is true in subsequent creations, and Leia Saidu dedicates her naked body to the artist's creation.
If There is still some role in Leia Saidu in this film, then in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" she is completely ignored, a maid dressed as Leia Saidu, in the film as a humble maid, working in Madame D's castle, if not carefully watched, may be overlooked.
Then there's Timothy Challemet, whose full name may be unfamiliar, and fans call him Sweet Tea. As an actor who has developed rapidly in recent years, Sweet Tea is active in various types of movies. From 2017's Miss Bird to 2019's Little Women, to this year's sci-fi blockbuster Dune, Sweet Tea has been firmly on the road of an actor, experimenting with different styles of movies and shaping characters with different personalities.
In "The French Mission" he plays a student leader who wants to rebel against Ciferini. McDormand, who plays journalist Clements in the film, was visiting his home when he found himself bathing in a bathtub. One of the two was in the bathtub, and the other was discussing the issue of the declaration of resistance in front of the wash stand, and just when the reporter was about to look at Fellini's declaration, sweet tea ran naked from the bathtub to the wash stand and handed it to the reporter Clementz.
The first touching narration that appears in the film also comes when Ciferini, played by Sweet Tea, decides to jump off a utility pole. In Clements' narration, she said: "He is not a comet that is infinitely blocked in a perfect arc, flying beyond the Milky Way in the vastness of the universe."
Instead, he would die young, he would drown on this planet. The water that drowned him flowed along the deep, dirty, magnificent river, day and night through the large and small veins of water in the ancient city. His parents would receive a call in the middle of the night, mechanically put on their clothes, hold hands, and be silent in the taxi. Went to claim his son's cold body. His image will be mass-produced and encapsulated. Selling bubble gum like someone who pretends to be inspired wants to emulate a hero. The pretentiousness of young people is touching. ”
Silsa Ronan, who has worked very frequently with Sweet Tea in recent years, also starred in this film. Her role in this film is less than a minute, and it ends with an absent death. In the film, she plays a dancer, he and her partners kidnapped the son of the director, she stayed closest to the children, and the children talked through a door, and when she sang the lullaby to the children, it was also the most touching scene in the whole film.
It has to be said that Wes Anderson likes to "ugly" the female characters in his films in appearance and improve their minds. Whether it is the prostitute in this film or Agatha with the birthmark in "The Grand Budapest Hotel", both ronan's characters have a certain flaw in appearance or identity, but this flaw just makes the brilliance of their souls appear.
Francis McDormand, who won the Oscar for Best Actress twice, is also a regular in Wes Anderson's work. Both Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs are involved. In this film, McDormand plays a seemingly neutral journalist who sparks with the student leader, forming a pair of CP with Sweet Tea. The third story of the film is also narrated by her.
Adrian Brody, who has starred in "The Pianist," "Detachment," and "Midnight in Paris," is an old friend of Wes Anderson's films, unlike the sad, literary roles he has played in other films, in which he either plays the son of the fierce Mrs. D or plays a speculative salesman.
Especially in this film, he plays a speculative salesman, because he saw the painter's paintings in prison, he used the three years after his release from prison to use the family power to build the painter into a world-renowned artist, hyped his works to sky-high prices, and formed a huge chain of interests.
The most bizarre thing in this film is the participation of Edward Norton, as a well-known actor in Hollywood, he has participated in many heavyweight films, and his appearance in the film is only longer than Ronan's, and the audience is only a quick glance. The most important car chase scene was also replaced by animation.
By combing through the actors in "The French", it is not difficult to find that many actors who can be named in Hollywood are regulars in Wes Anderson's films, and often in the form of supporting roles. Whether it's Cohen or Tilda or Edward Norton, not to mention Bill Murray only interspersed in the film. They all seem to be very happy to be involved in Wes Anderson's work. When an actor does not care about the weight of the role, as long as he can participate in the director's work, it depends on the weight of the work and the director's personal charm.
Take the film "The French Pie", in which you can find all the aesthetic styles that belong to Wes Anderson. Whether it is a symmetrical composition or a macaron-style color scheme, the director uses him to the extreme, and the whole picture is too full to stuff anything else.
This film is a tribute or nostalgia for the paper media era, abandoning the traditional linear narrative in the structure of the film's play, and adopting a chapter-style narrative. This narrative mode is to match people's habits of reading paper media. After adapting to the narrative structure, it is also necessary to be more adaptable in terms of influence style.
So in addition to maintaining Wes Anderson's usual symmetrical composition and use of color, the film is more flexible in other uses of images. The mixture of news, magazines, dramas, stage plays, animations and other forms of expression makes the audience dizzy, and the whole space has become extremely flexible, whether it is following Owen Wilson's bicycle to visit the whole town, or the space changes at will, so that the audience not only has a sense of viewing but also a sense of reading. Sometimes black and white, sometimes abundant colors, and changing formats make the style of this film very unique.
Also talking about the era of print media, "French" is not as heavy and vast as "Citizen Kane", but the film is in a comedic form, with a relaxed tone to reminisce about the paper media era. In the works, in addition to paying tribute to and reminiscing about the paper media era, both fans and scholars can interpret different levels of information.
Wes Anderson's aesthetic style is unique, and his works are always whimsical, both in form and content, to make fans a full meal. It is precisely because of the uniqueness of the work and the personal charm of the director that many Hollywood stars are attracted to participate in it, regardless of gains and losses.