This week in class we watched the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. This was my first Wes Anderson film and I'm glad to say that I really liked it! I loved the humor and I thought having a really complicated main character played by the amazing Bill Murray was really interesting. After watching this movie I am really interested in watching more Anderson films like The Fantastic Mr. Fox which I've heard is really good.
I'd like to first take a moment to talk about Murray's character Steve Zissou. For most of the film I didn't really like him. I thought he was a bad leader and very hypocritical. One example of him being hypocritical was how he kind of puts on a facade that he doesn't care at all what people thought of him, but he is constantly throughout the film bugging the reporter about getting certain moments down in her piece. I also thought he was quite mean to Ned, even though he was at times trying to be nice. However, I did feel bad for him when it came to his career and how everyone thought he was a joke, and I did feel happy at the end when the documentary was a success.
In this week's reading, we learned about Mise-en-Scene and my take away was that this concept is basically the arrangement of shots, actors, writing etc in film and how each director has there own certain style. This was the only Anderson film I've seen but one aspect of this film that I feel like is unique to him and his style as a director is kind of the animation of the sea creatures. I thought it was really unique and something I didn't expect in this movie, which makes me appreciate it.
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