In the trailer for Wes Anderson‘s newest movie Moonrise Kingdom, we are treated to the usual Anderson fare: an egg wash of cartoony reality splashed deliberately on the screen, a geeky/cool hero that will be the template of hipster values, a charming family of dysfunction, and characters that we admire because we don’t quite understand them. Moonrise Kingdon is a confident nerdy boy meets cute girl story and — well –that’s about it. Padded with his usual suspects (Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman) and some new citizens of his world (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton), the movie is a hearty dollop of Andersonisms:
Looks about right.
Wes Anderson is unknown to regular people, an “auteur” to cinephiles, and God to hipsters.
Then there’s this bizarrely staged picture of me, him, Jason Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola (who co-wrote Moonrise Kingdom with Anderson) from when I interviewed them for The Darjeeling Limited.
Consider yourself one degree closer to all of those people in the picture. That’s very special. And yes, I think I just name dropped all over the place.
- Excited
- Fascinated
- Amused
- Bored
- Sad
- Angry
