Okay I admit I usually completely ignore ad reads but that is an incredible deal

freking fine, I did it. Jesus. :P

This film was absolute dogshit. Came off ass annoying probably because of the first minute of this video.. it was boring and up it's own ass harrrrrrd.

@Thomas, I searched for "Obit" on Curiosity, but it's not found. Could you please share a direct link? Thanks! 👍

Don't put to much emphasis on facial expression. Of course he might have blinked reacting to an emotional cue or a certain phrase or whatever in response to an other actress in this scene. But reading any small emotions others might have at any time in life can become a lot of a task and might be even missleading. So i think, psychologicly, and of course everything in the end has something to do we the human mind, you shouldn't extrapolate every single detail you see into something too big or even godlike. That will always get people into some kind of a manice in the end... and also maybe, whtch the movie agian with a different mindset later on and I am sure u'll see many other connections just by being at another emotional state. So please stop lookong for perfection, in my small opinion, perfection in a scriptet enivremonet is neber the perfection you are looking for.

Wait, do you mean you DON’T only watch 52 bpm Wes Anderson films? Wow, some people are so basic. 🙄

This video months ago lead me to watch the French dispatch over 20 times now and organize each shot into a organized file systems

only if ~phile is a synonym for pretentious

@@naurdil yeah exactly what I was gonna say

We've reached levels of kino previously though impossible

Love this! I’m a production designer and try to tell stories through my sets that take on new life as soon as actors interact with the space. I love hearing about artistry from other departments.

@Brother Andy You really don't understand that timing is as important to dialogue as the words themselves? Like you ever heard of comedic timing? That's just one way timing is important to dialogue. Not only that but Wes' style has a specific timing to it. Like you should probably watch some plays and musicals, my friend. Another reason is just... why not? It's a tool at your disposal when making a film. Books you can't control timing, but with films you can so... Why not?

@Brother Andy i think you forget that most people who watch films (or consume any type of art) aren't connoisseurs, and for most people this style stands out. It may have deeper meaning to him (and clearly some others, hence this video and all the positive comments) but it's a gimmick, and it really works as a gimmick. Underneath this gimmick he's exploring a feeling (as far as I can tell, I'm not a hardcore fan of him) and is coming back to that feeling over and over from different angles. The gimmick is just there to draw you in. Exploring the same idea over and over is common in basically every form of art (in fact this is what most artists do). I can't explain that feeling to you, but it seems that you're frustrated that you don't identify with it (and instead you think the gimmick is the substance), which I think you shouldn't be. You don't like his movies, that's fine.

@Brother Andy hey man I feel you, I'm in the music industry and it is also crap. And I went to art school and popular modern art is also garbage. This is what big money does to things. Maybe you wanna dig a bit deeper in that case? The underground scenes can be less crap, or at the very least, crap for different reasons. Digital tools have been democratizing traditionally expensive forms art for a while now, hopefully with the addition of some AI tools they can be democratized even more (tbd I guess hahah). Idk sounds like you're really stressing about it though, and I get that, I've been there, but also, idk, maybe it would be worth talking to someone about irl? Idk about you but I only usually yell at strangers on the internet when I'm in a pretty bad place.

@Brother Andy then again, reading some of the other comments on this video also sorta makes me wanna go on a rant so who am I to judge.

Are you rushing or are you dragging 🤣🤣

Im getting whiplash from his artistry 😂

Whiplash Anderson lmao

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Hi fellow animator! Yeah you can tell doing animated films really pushed Wes into more of his own tendencies and proclivities

easily wes andersons weakest film

@@hugh-jasole Jesus dude, did someone named Wes assault you as a child or something?

@@1zxtv why do you feel this way?

@@1zxtv guess you've never seen bottle rocket

Usually, as a film composer myself, that's the first thing we do... not as macro as we see here, but on individual scenes.

It is sooo farfetched. You can use whatever you want: barometer, stethoscope you name it. And you will always find (RATHER CREATE) bunch of meaning anywhere.

@@timelesswisdom597 I’ve always struggled with analyzing film and watching video essays is equally inspiring and debilitating

@@timelesswisdom597 if we create meaning anywhere, why is it so far-fetched to use any tool possible to enrich our experience? it's a deeply human thing

@@timelesswisdom597 It isn't shown as "proof" of anything but more as a way of materializing an idea. Wether the director constructed it with that in mind or not isn't really the point, there is undeniably a rythm to this movie. By measuring it, quantifying it, you can dissect why it works, what makes the movie or the scene particular. Style isn't an absolute black and white thing. It is complex and personal to a director's voice. A director who thinks and constructs but is also lead by emotions, instincts and internalized influences. I think that's why analysis are interesting and can be so different..

as an animator they feel more like animated films with precision timing and staging!

@@joshryan9560 would tend to agree... if you animate the effort shows intent... while theatre can be precise at any given moment, including cues, etc, an animator has to deal with timing or “over time” intrinsically. Coming from mograph mostly, not so much stop frame, it takes so much effort to fill the space over time. Usually seamlessly, also, gives the appearance of ease of creativity, fluidity... very difficult to explain to the uninitiated...

i agree!

I see echoes of Derek Jarman

@@SrijanGuha for me there's an element of Jacques Tati

love this analogy lol

this is great a great way of describing it, im using this later :))

Beautiful honestly he was inserting himself into the story and was giving pieces of why he does what he does in this movie. You know someone is talented when they can make a perfect humming bird but decide to make this instead. It’s like he is paying an image to the original styles of the writers in the New Yorker by flexing his style in this movie as they did in their stories

The phrase you're looking for is "gestures towards"

I think this comment perfectly nailed how and why Wes Anderson is great. It's like Wes Anderson is referring to himself.

Wonderful comment. I’ve traveled and worked abroad before, and your birthday story captured the feeling of connected loneliness I often felt in foreign cities.

beautiful - I'm from Denmark. Which cinema did you go to? Sincerely

That's an amazing story, well told

@@sanssoleilfilm loll Cinemax in Copenhagen in like the mall

Seems befitting considering he has a contract with Netflix to adapt a Roald Dahl story.

An adaptation of Boy: Tales of Childhood?

@@connor48880 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. I believe other Dahl short stories will be interwoven, or it'll be another anthology of sorts. Cumberbatch stars, and Dev Patel, and Ralph Fiennes are attached too. Seems promising imo.

Forlorn Whimsy.

@@ThomasFlight 4:30 why doesn't this physically work? I haven't seen the film but to me it just looks like depth isn't very apparent.

@@2KOOLURATOOLGaming using the shoes on the floor as a reference, it looks like the wall on the left, perpendicular to the door, only comes out about a foot. But in the scene with the woman sitting against that same wall, it is much wider.

Meh... Too pretentious this one. All his.other films are fantastic

@@ThomasFlight Put that in Futura, maybe with a dash of Art Nouveau flair, and you've got a shirt I'd buy.

I've had curiosity stream for a year but I guess Obit will be my first time actually watching it

Not everyone has the same sense of humor and I think that’s nice 😊

because the humour is totally lacking of any charm or endearment as seen in his previous works. His worst film to date by a country mile

@@BT37GU the movie was visually beautiful but yeah it was VERY boring

Precisely. Just like Wes's love of his favorite magazine, the New Yorker. He made the film version of that magazine. Delightful.

Yeah When i watch the movie The emotion i feel is interest . And watching this movie is like reading an unique visual magazine .

@@ftm84wow you are so right. Wow

I thought it was meh

word. just because it’s stylistic and i suppose abit avant- garde, it is definitely not lacking substance

Rare movies where the style is substance

It's more a frustration that he's using the same style for every single one of his films. It's becoming tedious at this point.

My criticism is that this film focuses on the mise en scene to the detriment of the characters and real emotion that abounded in Life Aquatic and Grand Budapest. While this movie was intricately woven, I never got a sense of aching tragedy like I did with Gustave, or the renewed joi de vivre of Steve Zissou. The characters were less incisively drawn than usual, the dialogue less sharp, leading to an aesthetically marvellous but spiritually hollow experience

@@tobylerone4285 Boom. Well said. I'm a huge Wes Anderson Fan (like own all the Criterion releases of his films huge fan). But after watching this movie twice, I can say with confidence that I just don't like it. The FIRST story is alright, mostly because Adrian Brodie was great as usual, but it all felt emotionally hollow. Like it was going through the motions more then anything. I didn't FEEL anything for the characters. And I've never had that be the case with an Anderson movie. I didn't like that it was an anthology with similar themes, and yet nothing really tied together. I wasn't really a fan of most of the film being in black and white, and then flipping occasionally to color. Etc. (You can argue the artistic purpose of this choice, but I still found it visually distracting, and even kind of exhausting at times). And I know that there's no way to express this opinion without catching heat, but I hated all of the nudity. It didn't feel artful to me (or any of the people I saw it with). It felt weirdly sleazy. Especially when you consider that the actress who plays "Simone" admitted in interview that she had no idea that the role would require nudity when going into it. Overall. This film felt like the Wes Anderson equivalent of "The Phantom Menace." I doubt that this is the case, but this film FEELS like he was given free reign to go wild and make whatever he wanted, with no input from others whatsoever. It's ok. He couldn't bat 100 forever. He's entitled to a disappointment now and then.

I feel the exact same way. You've put it into words :)

Fuck yeah :)

Very well put. I really like how they use audiovisuality to its maximum potential.

100% agree. I personally found it a bit too wordy too and I felt like the 3 story structure dragged in the middle. I think it may have been better as a tv series maybe? Where you can pause between each story, and I found the overarching narrative wasn’t that strong. So I too can appreciate the style and mise en scene but I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it. It’s my least favourite of Wes’s films so far

absolutely agree, the humor and storyline is usually lost to me, so I can only really enjoy it from a visual and artistic standpoint

Fair enough. Art is, after all, subjective. It doesn't necessarily need to inspire emotions...though it appears that it does (at least in the context) for you. An understandable perspective.

ahhh but i found it extremely funny and at the same time so pleasing for the eyes, while the message shines through the aftertaste but i guess everyone has their own taste.

@@nickmonks9563 tbf this film did inspire emotions, it’s just that those were intrigue followed by frustration followed by detachment. Although by the end I wasn’t annoyed or bored anymore; putting the worst of the triumvirate of storylines in the middle definitely makes the last feel refreshingly focussed, despite it still being fairly asinine

Maybe spend a couple of minutes to understand what rhythm means

Hey MrClafou, I'd go as far as to say you've got your own style there too, meaning I'm acknowledging the distinctive style of a KZfaq comment on a video with its own distinctive style, which in turn is in fact celebrating a film with its own exquisite, distinctive style, perfectly utilised by the director to celebrate the distinctive style of the writers who are the film's subjects.

Interesting. Music doesn't need language to be music. What a take

"Opinion"

I loved the movie but I understand that some people may find it fatiguing and overly saturated with visual tricks. Trouble is, audiences also want storytelling and not just displays of form.

I loved the movie, but it lacks the overarching narrative and character study elements of his previous work. I hoped we would get some interaction between the writers or some deeper drama behind the magazine ending and the responsibility of writing the last issue. The 4 sections felt too disconnected

A lot of people just had all of the themes, social commentary and emotion go over their heads... and that breaks my heart.

@@jakubwoziwodzki6907 there is no shortage of storytelling, it's just done in a more nuanced way. Which is nothing new btw, I take it you're not a fan of French new wave cinema?

True.

Well said

Thank you, I felt sort of similar: too much style, too little emotional depth.

He doesn't seem to be slowing down at all man. Even writing this feels hard,But if you aren't connecting with him now then this is the best time to jump off the Wes Anderson bandwagon because we clearly saw that he can out-Wes himself every single time.

@@hansolo3882 what do you mean "Out-Wes Anderson himself"? This film is the least "Wes Anderson" film ever, just a look at this film's shotlist. Snorri cams, 360 panning shots, handheld shots, these shots don't belong in a Wes Anderson film.

@@theroebuck123456789 The French Dispatch is insanely Wes Anderson, wtf are u talking about. There’s like 2 or 3 hand held shots, that’s it.

@@theroebuck123456789 Who are you to say what belongs and doesn't belong in the works of an author?

For me The Grand Budapest hotel will be the first while The French Dispatch is second ( really love how he based on the former and outdid himself more) while Isle of dogs comes third

For me it's The Grand Budapest Hotel, then The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and then Fantastic Mr Fox. It's a very hard top 3 to make.