At the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Outstanding Film Award in the Musical/Comedy category. There are too many interesting topics to talk about this movie, and the most intuitive and eye-catching thing is its unique lens aesthetic.
A director who does not have his own unique style cannot be a well-known director. "McBey will have a big explosion, The naisha Malan and Niu Chengze's films will have their own scenes, Tim Bolton always paints Channing Andippe's face white, Peter Jackson pulls the whole scene to New Zealand, Wong Kar-wai is more than ten years old, cai Liang's movie will come back in five minutes to see the same picture..." Only people who really love movies will discover and summarize these laws.
Such is the case with The Korean film director Kogonada, who has studied a large number of films, having integrated Quentin Tarantino's films into a "full elevation" collection of films, and recently begun to study the works of American director Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson has attracted much attention for his latest film "The Grand Budapest Hotel", which covers 20 famous cast members and has also been sponsored by prada and Fendi brands, which is really exciting. So, what kind of paranoia will his works present?
Some people have done a palette-like color spectrum analysis of Wes Anderson's film stills, and he seems to be the director born for the HD era, with high contrast, high brightness and bright colors, balanced symmetry, and attention to all details. You can take a look at the following figure:
Pink and pink blue form the whole world of two young lovers, allowing them to immerse themselves in the sweet world of MENDL'S desserts despite being in the midst of bullets. The cartons in the dessert shop are designed and seem to be very serious.
The creation of the lobby of the grand hotel is even more dreamy. Old European atmosphere: coffee, magenta, red gold, gold, whether it is a renovated continental hotel or a nostalgic café can refer to this.
We know that Anderson has been famous for a certain number of years, and most of the films we have seen such as "The Great Fox Daddy" and "Crossing Darjeeling" are all directed by him.
The scene, from Hotel Chevalier, features Jensen Schwartzman (a frequent guest in Anderson's films) and Natalie Portman (who made a special cameo for the short). The 13-minute Knights Hotel is considered a prequel to Crossing Darjeeling, and today we can think of it as a foreplay to The Grand Budapest Hotel.
As an "author-director", Wes Anderson stubbornly filled his filmmas with all his personal tastes and quirks, so he dabbled in all aspects of filmmaking: screenwriting, photography, art design, soundtrack selection, and so on. Of course, doing "interior design" has also become the top priority, his films are often long shots, or the lens is frozen, the character is centered in the picture, and at this time, the home decoration behind the characters becomes the center of the picture, and the audience naturally extends the line of sight from the characters to these sets that are not originally the protagonists. Unsurprisingly, everything is still pleasant, you don't even have to freeze the picture to appreciate it, Anderson has given you enough time.
Let's take a good look at the Anderson films that the audience is watching, in fact, they are watching this color combination:
It seemed as if he was forever repeating his balanced symmetrical aesthetic. Anderson himself explains: "I've been trying to avoid repeating myself, but my films look like they're repeating themselves. It wasn't something I did on purpose, I just wanted the film to be personal, but interesting to the audience. ”
His interest in life comes from the influence of comics, such as the influence of Charles Schultz's Snoopy on his "Genius" and "Youth"; he learned the aesthetics of framing from the French photographer Rattiger, "Crossing Darjeeling" is a tribute to the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Rey; and now, he uses "The Grand Budapest Hotel" to pay tribute to the Austrian writer Stephen Zweig: the escape of an Eastern European writer, but also wrote the precise magnificence of old Europe and the "last light of humanitarianism". Mr. Gustav is like an old European gentleman like Zweig, and the escape must also remember to spray "L'air de panache" perfume, a bottle of perfume that makes people feel dignified.
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is a famous American director. His mother was an archaeologist and his father worked in advertising. He studied philosophy at the University of Texas, where he met Owen Wilson, who would later appear in several of his works. A short film the two collaborated on attracted producer James W. Bush. L. Brooks's interest, with his help, was able to participate in the Sundance Film Festival and eventually made into a full-length feature film, which was Anderson's debut film" Rocket in a Bottle.
Anderson is an all-round director who usually participates in the details of his work, such as screenwriting, photography and soundtrack, and dedicates a very personal work. His second film, Youth, was a huge success, with critics saying it was reminiscent of the compassionate and wise works of Jean Renoir and François Truffaut, and promising that Wes Anderson would become a unique representative director of The American film industry in the future, and even martin Scorsese, a director with very different styles, praised him.
Later, Wes Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Original Screenplay for "The Trenbaum Family", and the film, which attracted several big stars, was also a commercial success of his work. However, after the failure of 2004's "Life in the Water", Wes Anderson's personal style was increasingly criticized, and it was pointed out that the quality of the work was declining, but this did not prevent Wes Anderson from standing in the hearts of fans who appreciated his unique creative style, and the latest "Crossing Darjeeling" in 2007 was also described as a work that could satisfy fans but did not make much breakthrough.
In recent years, he wrote and directed "The Great Fox Daddy," based on Ronald Dahl's children's book, shot using stop-motion animation techniques and co-starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep. In 2012, his latest film "Moonrise Kingdom" was not only selected for the main competition section, but also won the opening film of the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
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1996: Bottle Rocket
1998: Rushmore
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums
2005: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2007: The Darjeeling Limited
2009: The Fantastic Mr. Fox
2012: Moonrise Kingdom
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel