April 30, 2017

Watch: The Childhood Whimsy of Wes Anderson

How do the children in director Wes Anderson’s films always seem more grown up than the grown ups?

One thing you might immediately recognize about Wes Anderson’s work is the visual style: anamorphic lenses, symmetry, pastel color palettes that seem to have been sourced from a 1960s fashion catalogue. The cinematography, music, set design, and costuming in all of his films remind us of childhood, a time when life was simpler, but the narrative content is really anything but.

Instead, the stories Anderson tells touch on heavier “adult” topics, like death, failure, and fear, which creates a unique mixture of what is youthful and innocent with what is old and jaded. This aspect of the director’s work is explored in this Fandor video essay by Philip Brubaker, which shines a light on how Anderson uses certain cinematic tools to create whimsically melancholic worlds that exist in an ageless realm.

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Source: NoFilmSchool