Episode 52: Moonrise Kingdom

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team compares our levels of tolerance for Wes Anderson’s stilted style, breaks down how the film attempts to establish weighty stakes, and discusses why Moonrise Kingdom’s form is the perfect expression of its bittersweet theme.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.7	Today we're talking about Moonrise Kingdom, the 2012 film directed by Wes Anderson, written
0:14.3	by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola.
0:16.6	I'm joined by the lessons from screenplay team, Trisha Rand.
0:19.8	Hello, everyone.
0:20.7	Brian Bittner.
0:21.6	Wes Anderson, Emotionless, hello.
0:24.5	And Alex Cayetos.
0:26.3	Hi.
0:27.1	So this is kind of like another deep cut for the channel.
0:31.4	Moonrest Kingdom was kind of one of the earliest videos.
0:34.9	And I've been thinking about it today because I went and rewatched the movie and
0:39.4	rewatched the video that I'd made back in 2016 and I have these kind of weird fond-ish memories
0:46.4	of these first series of videos and all the things that I was experimenting with and it was
0:52.1	interesting like watching this video because this was very much when I was experimenting with. And it was interesting, like, watching this video, because
0:55.8	this was very much when I was trying to see if I could make the videos in the style of the
1:01.7	movie that was being talked about. So the whole video is kind of done in a Wes Anderson style.
1:07.9	Yeah. Rewatching it, I was like, this is awesome.
1:13.0	I was like above and beyond.
1:17.4	Like you have the little cut out pieces of the script on like a cork board.
1:18.5	It's like, what?
1:19.5	You did all this?
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