Word: wilsonã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...while Anderson and Wilson??s artistic tastes may correspond with each other, their sense of absurdist humor diverges from that of the pedestrian. Their past two feature films were far from mainstream, and have practically achieved cult status. However, both are also quick to avoid describing their work as quirky. Anderson elucidates, “I don’t like quirky at all. Quirky is the thing I want to not be. There’s no point in trying to be weird. But I think people think this [movie] stuff is quirky. [Owen...
...whimsical New York City, Anderson and Wilson??s third feature film together is an unpredictable love letter to the magic of the city, filled with gypsy cabs, majestic hotels and lushly verdant parks. Anderson notes that, “In a way, some of the inspiration for the movie is the architecture of the buildings there. The libraries and clubs and houses and things are unlike those any other place in America.” While the film features locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Paris and Jamaica, a large brownstone in Harlem that doubles as the Tenenbaum?...
...plays a Navy navigator shot down by unknown Eastern Europeans after he spots and photographs them in a scene that was not meant for the United States’ eyes. While his pilot is executed, Wilson must stay alive in the wintry landscape of Bosnia while being pursued. As Wilson??s commanding officer, Gene Hackman plays Admiral Reigart, who is frustrated by his superior, NATO admiral (Joaquim de Almeida) because he has been told that a rescue attempt can only be made in safe territory. As the story develops—read: Wilson must run and dodge some...
...help but feel that something is at stake in the limitations of Stiller’s characters; in Zoolander, everyone is inside on the the joke, whether it be Jerry Stiller’s prostrate-troubled modeling agent or the rock band of Finnish dwarves that live at Owen Wilson??s pad. As a result, the film becomes just one damn thing after another, with gags connecting or misfiring in serial fashion, like a 90 skit comedy show...
...fundamental insight that I have distilled from my Harvard experience, a sentiment I happen to share with many others who have passed through here. I feel strongly that if any one truth, one iota of Veritas, should guide Harvard under his administration, it should be Woodrow Wilson??s observation that “it is not learning but the spirit of service that will give a college place in the public annals of the nation...