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...While Anderson??s previous scripts were rich enough that his quirky characterizations did most of the developmental legwork for the performances, The Life Aquatic seems all too willing to use its actors as ottomans. Even within the mammoth ensemble in The Royal Tenenbaums, each character is given room to breathe, stretch and shake; heck, even the family’s butler Pagoda taps an emotional nerve as he stabs deceptive employer Royal Tenenbaum in the stomach, then loyally drags him to safety. But multi-dimensional characters are nowhere to be found aboard the cramped Life Aquatic, where...
...year’s best. The set design on the ship is truly stunning, and a pair of scenes that capture the bustle on board while panning across a cross-section of the entire ship are jaw-dropping in their brazen gaudiness. But, as The Life Aquatic ends with Anderson??s trademark last-call denouement, where each character closes shop with a sharp one-liner, the viewer is reminded that Anderson has sailed this course before, but never without his characters’ humanity as an anchor...
Clyde, a town of 6,000 in northern Ohio, is best-known for its pseudonymous turn as Winesburg in Sherwood Anderson??s Winesburg, Ohio. (The Clyde website notes that “America’s Famous Small Town” is both “rich in history” and “home to America’s largest washing machine manufacturer...
...Howard Hughes)—and a handful of well-received arty movies that will allow Oscar voters to convince themselves that they have not in fact caused the death of cinema. Among these are Almodovar’s Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries, A Very Long Engagement, Wes Anderson??s The Life Aquatic, Sideways, and Mike Nichols’ adaptation of the popular yet frightfully insipid, faux-edgy Patrick Marber stage play Closer...
...main character, Albert—played by the intense young actor Jason Schwartzman, best known for his debut role as Max Fischer in Wes Anderson??s Rushmore—is a fledgling activist trying to use poetry to help protect a local marsh. In the background looms the specter of consumerism in the form of Huckabees, a department store chain planning on wiping away Albert’s beloved wetlands...