Wes Anderson’s new film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ comes to limited theaters on May 25th.
In most every form of art and creative production, you’ll find artists that have one specific style that they will stick to for every piece they do. In movie production, you have people like Michael Cera, who are typecast into playing the same style role in virtually every movie. But being an actor with the same style is much different than someone like a director or writer, who has full control over everything that happens in their films. Writer/director Wes Anderson has never strayed from his trademark style of wide angle anamorphic lens shots, hand-held pans in the middle of dialogue, Mark Mothersbaugh compositions and The Rolling Stones-like soundtracks, ‘Futura Bold’ typefont, big quirky families as the base of the story, and his casting of Bill Murray, Owen and Luke Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. These are all things that I have come to love and expect in his movies, and it is a real joy to sit through every one and be able to identify his unique and specific style of film making. If you were to ask me right now who my favorite film maker is, it would probably be Anderson.
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