Monday, April 12, 2010
Mr. Fox and Mr. Anderson
I finally saw Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox at a 3.00 budget theater with a really good print and sound execution. It felt like a throwback to go see a film at discount that had a nearly half year run. Not bad for a stop motion puppet show.
Wes Anderson's films are all wild rides. There is a lot that goes on in his films that repeats itself here, but the tone is different. It feels like good Newberry or Caldicott Children's story hour with a twist of course. But that is what makes it stand out from Chicken Run, for instance.
I love the rough hewn look of this film. Anderson does succeed to create a new world and a film that looks like no other. Some try but only a few are able to achieve what is one of the most romantic and elusive of cinema dreams. In Mr Fox, he uses that Melies discovered DNA, the wonder of assigning action step by step later to be played at 18 and then 24 per a second, roughly the time to inhale a single breath.
This is a film that you will need to try on for yourself to see if the magic finds you. There seems to be a lot of that going on where wild things live in wonderland.
posted by well-executed buffet at 11:13 PM
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