The man that has defined a generation with his style, Wes Anderson is one of our favorite film directors. Here is why.
One of the current giants in the art of film directing, Wes Anderson has been gathering a long line of followers since he first started his career back in 1992. Best known for his eccentric narratives and one-of-a-kind aesthetic, we can almost talk about a Wes Anderson cinematography concept, which is exactly what we are be going to do today. Below you will find a series of reasons, we have tried to make sense of, as to why we can’t help but love Wes Anderson’s aesthetic and how it ultimately led to the definition of a generation’s sense of aesthetic.
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Although not an original classic Hollywood name such as Alfred Hitchcock or Francis Ford Coppola, who started back in the mid 20th century, Wes Anderson has quickly and surely made its way amongst the list of the best film directors of all times. For the past almost thirty years, the Houston-born director has been building his own aesthetic sense, which he incorporates into his narratives, creating fictional worlds where we wouldn’t mind dipping our toes into.
Anderson manages to do that in his comedic screenplays spiced up by a series of melancholic elements through a the use of very limited color palettes we have grown used to know (and love) as the Wes Anderson color palettes. Every movie directed by Anderson has a closed color selection that, more than guiding us through the action, creates a mesmerizing effect that will create a longlasting memory in our minds.
“A lot of modern culture is based around the idea of the carefully curated self-image,” says Danny Leigh. “That’s one thing Anderson helped pioneer: the idea that everything was deeply self-conscious and deeply tailored.”
Another reason we can’t help but love Anderson aesthetic and filmography concept is how the movie director grabs our attention by allowing his symmetrical compositions to be guided by a series of intertwined snap-zooms and slow-motion walking shots, much like we can see in one of his most critically acclaimed movies, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Clear depiction of Anderson’s symmetric shots.
If you are a Wes Anderson follower, you might have also noticed the importance of soundtracks in his works throughout the years. In a vey Wes Anderson style, the director usually goes for a single band to cover the entirety of the soundtrack of his movies, allowing the viewer to much easily exist in his contained, symmetrical, fictional world. In fact, the only movie so far that hasn’t taken this advantage was the one we previously mentioned, The Grand Budapest Hotel, where the director went with an original soundtrack by Alexander Desplat, which actually came to give the composer the Academy Award for Best Original Sound Score!
What’s more is that the aesthetic current the Texan film director seems to have coined, is now everywhere. This filmography and aesthetic concept we have been talking about is something that has crossed the barriers of a simple theatre screen and made its way onto our realm of reality. And it’s fairly easy to understand why. Anderson has been creating some of the most pleasing, easy on the eye sceneries, where it is very easy to exist, or at least it seems so. It’s almost as if Anderson was capable of creating and alternate, symmetric dimension where everything is almost too perfect to be true.
Moonrise Kingdom shot.
Darjeeling Limited shot.
And, in fact, our final reason to love Wes Anderson’s filmography concept is that we was able to shape a generation’s aesthetic sense and how we view the world around us. If you are not familiar with it, there is even a verified Instagram account dedicated to sharing photos of our very real world where Anderson’s technicolor, filter-free shots feel like they have come to life.
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