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The Important Cinema Club

#218 - Wes Andersonsploitation

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the work of Wes Anderson by talking about some of the films that ripped him off. We focus on NACHO LIBRE, A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III, and a real Wes Anderson film, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com In this week's Patreon episode, we discuss Spike Lee's OLDBOY. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin Glune. We're here today with Will Sloan. And you're listening to

0:09.0

the important cinema club. And today, we're finally doing it. We're talking about Wes Anderson.

0:15.5

In a different timeline, we'd probably be sitting in a theater right now watching his latest film,

0:20.7

The French Dispatch.

0:22.3

Fortunately, there is no topical reason to do this episode. We're instead doing it because

0:27.2

he's one of those guys, you know? He's one of those dorm room poster perennials.

0:32.4

We're doing it because we want those clicks, Will. We know people recognize the name

0:36.2

Wes Sanderson and go,

0:41.7

hey, I would like to hear two white-bespectacled straight guys talk about his filmography.

0:42.5

Two guys who perhaps could be characters in a Wes Anderson movie.

0:46.3

For young cinefiles, really for any cinefiles, he's another one of those directors

0:50.7

who makes you understand what a director does.

0:53.7

He's a man with, you know,

0:55.3

a heavy stamp, heavy amount of style, recurring visual and, and thematic motifs that occur

1:02.9

from film to film. Look at me. I'm a filmmaker. Ooh, that shows that somebody's actually

1:08.5

putting a lot of effort in making everything like a proscenium or making it all symmetrical in frame.

1:14.7

But, you know, we are going to be talking about Wes Anderson in hopefully a slightly imaginative way.

1:20.1

We are going to be looking at Wes Anderson's exploitation.

1:23.1

Imagine it if you say, let me play some of that music.

1:29.3

Just imagine Justin and me sitting in a symmetrical frame surrounded by pastel colors.

1:37.3

All these movie posters for fake movies, but all very artfully put...

1:41.3

What is Wes Anderson'sploitation?

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