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Melancholy Baby indeed, something very attractive about him. Well done vid!

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It’s hard not to see him as Joe Bauers in Idiocracy

Nice naration! good job!

Yeah . This is like reviewing Shakespeare without having read a play . Dude . Its very very obviously derivative of Cousteau...how hard is it to watch one . Anyway, other than that. ...yeah I didnt see what you did obviously

I thought I was a Wes fan….turns out my loyalty lies with Owen.

The Life aquatic walked so the Grand Budapest could run

I hope that you’re doing all right! I really enjoy watching your essays and have been anticipating a longer form discussion of asteroid city that you mentioned in your spoiler free review!

awesome video!!! I love Rushmore and made a video for my sch about it too :)) we made some similar points!

The "pummell the n*gger" carnival attraction at the beginning nearly put me off altogether (no excuse for "The Times") but the film remains one of my favorite Hitch flicks. (It's currently streaming free on the Tube). Thanks!

Stephen Colbert funny? hahahaha, now that's funny

What disk release is this from, if you don't mind me asking? The BFI restoration?

Pee is warm

The Aquaman joke is about urine.

curiuos refugee's parodies has scripts and are truly funny. but its clones.... They feel like ai generated..

I really hate these Wes Anderson trailers. He has a very unique style, and it in no way would be good for any of these IPs. People getting so excited over these has me worried that Hollywood is going to start dumping content that's AI generated once it gets a bit better and a main job is going to be 'AI Curator'.

It's because Aquaman keeps peeing in the pool. Why do I have to explain all the jokes?

I really enjoyed the video, it was amazingly well done, and just generally, your voice is great for voiceovers

BILL MURRAY WILL BE GONE FOREVER SOON

This was a really great video on AI and it really helped me understand why there are so many Wes Anderson AI trailers on UA-cam. I definitely understand why Anderson is considered easy to replicate in AI, but as you said it lacks the intention behind the art, something AI can never have. As someone who's been using ChatGPT to write video scripts, I completely agree that it does not know how to write jokes. They always come off weird and meaningless, if they even bother to make sense at all.

Great spotlight! Lilian Hall Davis definitely had that “it factor” and was a legitimate talent. Her behind the scenes issues make her end a true tragedy. I salute you for helping her live again!

A very sad story. Sadly, the talkie revolution claimed many such casualties.

Loving these silent Hitchcock reviews-- so few people on UA-cam seem to bother with anything this early in his career and I appreciate the analysis and humor of your observations. I wasn't able to finish The Farmer's Wife when I originally tried watching it, though that may have been because the library's copy was on one of those "Early Hitchcock Collection" DVD sets, where all the prints used are blurry and borderline unwatchable. I would love to find this film in watchable quality, even if it's decidedly not Hitchcock's finest hour.

Love the snide british accent you gave wes anderson

Love your channel. Love the way you speak… could just listen to you all day 🎶 👂

you have a voice of a oak tree barrel filled to the brim with honey

This was a great video, you should be very proud of making something like this. Keep it up.

'Promo SM' 👉

I wonder why Luke and Wes stopped working together

You cannot have less than a 1000 views for this. That feels soo wrong.

These videos are way too good to have this little views.

This little movie is also good

Very good video! Great job analyzing the movie. I love Anderson and all his movies but I gotta say, Bottlerocket is a bit rough. My least favorite movie of his though I still enjoy it immensely. No other Filmmaker sparks joy the way Anderson does. His movies simply make happy 😊

2:21 I don’t know why, but for some reason Owen Wilson’s picture in Rushmore makes me think of “And Then There’s Chunky, he’s dead…”

Great video. Schwartzmen is one of my favourite actors and his collaborations with Wes Anderson are some his best work. Rushmore is my favourite movie too, so there’s that

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I was very excited for this video, even if you didn't like the film too much! Being partial to oceanography and Jacques Cousteau, the film felt a bit more nostalgic(?) to me. Lots of references to it for sure. The narcissism and apathy from Zisseau contrasting an ocean of fascinating, colourful creatures and settings is particularly strong to me. Also, the way the Belafonte is a sort of character of its own is a very nice touch. When you're on the same vessel for a while, you kinda personify it.

I wish the two could do a documentary Anderson style with fictional bits.

4 decades... bit of a stretch. but great vid other than that haha

Bottle Rocket is my favorite Wes Anderson's movie. His films have been with me for years. I loved the stories and the songs (scenes like "She's my Rushmore" with "I am Waiting" by Rolling Stones, or meeting at the bust stop from The Royal Tenenbaums still bring me so many happy memories about the time when I watched these movies, so many emotions). But still I didn't know much about the director himself. So thank you for this video, I'm definitely gonna watch more of yours!)

hadn't heard about the new film by wes, and steve carell is in it? that's awesome!

BENEDICTION is an insult to the memory of Ivor Novello. All biographies of him and of those who worked with him describe him exactly as written on the plaque in Actors' Church, London: "In loving memory of Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies), Composer, Actor, Author b.15.1.1893, d.6 March 1951 - The dearest friend, the kindest man, the best-condition'd and unwearied spirit, in doing courtesies (Shakespeare). It seems at worse, he was lazy and yes, probably promiscuous. The petrol affair was down to his naivety in believing one of his many thousands of adoring fans, who throughout used a false name. Shock and desperation probably stirred him into bribing the police. Ivor was extremely popular in Britain for most of his life and was often referred to as "Dear Ivor".

I'm New to this type of critique. You. You are Tremendously Helpful Thanks Heaps !

I’ve never found a channel of this quality this early. Hope you continue to upload forever

I absolutely love this film! As a child of the '60s-'70s who grew up watching every Cousteau and National Geographic special, and whose childhood hero was JY Cousteau, it comes off to me as a wonderful homage to the Captain and to a very particular time that has sadly largely passed us by. Many of the characters and subplots make more sense from that vantage point. BTW, to me, "Esteban" was pretty apparently modeled after Cousteau's right-hand man and chief diver of the Calypso, Albert Falco.

I think you hit the nail on the head when listing the problems with this movie. In my opinion this is Wes Anderson's worst film, but I still like it nonetheless. There are a lot of charming moments to be had here but like you said the overall product felt souless. I think focusing on one plot point instead of having all these subplots would of done the movie a favor.

Okay, first, you're really good at this. Great presentation, great narration, great research and observations. I'm almost ashamed to ask for longer, more detailed essays, as I can only assume these take a huge amount of time to put together. If I have a critique, it's that I'm wondering about your critiques. You clearly know film very, very well. So I understand your note about the brilliant opening montage, followed by another framed, formalized reintroduction of each character. I agree that these two different non-narrative info-dumps placed back to back feel like awkward pacing. The opening montage sets up an expectation that, now we've gotten to know and feel for the characters, we're more than ready to enter the story. Instead, we're held at a distance by another framing device. It breaks the flow. But I find with directors like Wes Anderson, it's always good to second-guess what you feel doesn't work. The thwarted expectation may be on purpose, may even be the point. In this case, I think the whole point of the film is the layers of formality that the characters place between themselves and their real feelings. The stilted re-introduction of each character reflects the stilted persona they wear. Each impersonal intro presents us not with the characters themselves, but their defenses. If we want to see through that defense and understand them, we have to be patient. And being patient with people's denial is always exasperating. Anyway, that was my reading of it. I think with Margot, in particular, this is doubly the case. I agree that we don't get to know her very well, but I think her mystery is the point. Her husband, the psychiatrist, discovers that she's been living out wild adventures totally outside of his awareness. Raleigh may be clownishly oblivious, given his profession, but there's more to it. Margot isn't just a stranger to him and Richie, but herself as well. Even she doesn't really know who she is or why she does what she does. Her plays and writings were attempts to probe her own psyche, but they were met with dismissal by her father. Even the fact that she was adopted plays into this. She's a stranger in the family, and her father never let her forget that. So of course we don't get to know her well. Anyway, please forgive my nitpicks of your nitpicks. I don't mean to be the kind of fan that can't hear a thing against a favorite artist, and that may be what I'm doing. But I thought you might be interested in an alternative view. Again, great work. I'll be following your channel with interest.

I love your work here, excellent crafting, great observations. But I think you're missing the central point of this film. This isn't a comedy anymore than Royal Tenenbaums was a comedy. Its central character is hard to watch because he's supposed to be. This is the story of a man grappling with his own legend, struggling, and ultimately failing, to live up to the identity that his fame and success had given him. Doing great things had convinced him that he was a great person, and so at some point, he stopped trying to be a good one. Instead, he indulged his ego, and got away with it, because successful people are too often indulged by the people around him. But when he stopped trying to be good, he stopped being great, and the indulgence his greatness earned began to fade. This last adventure was him trying to squeeze the last drops of value his former greatness had earned, thinking that it could somehow earn more, not realizing that he was at this point just making a spectacle of his indulgence, and no one actually wants to see that. There's nothing more pathetic than a man trying to be great. It's hard to watch. But that's what makes the story deep, for me, because it speaks to that desire I think so many of us have. Deep down, we dream of being great, because we don't think being ourselves is enough. We want to be someone we look up to, someone we admire. And that's a toxic fantasy. This film interrogates the craving for greatness better than almost any other, and with such humanity, such kindness. Ultimately, what Steve is missing from his life isn't admiration from without, but kindness from within. So looking at the things you found wanting, let's start with Estaban, the non-character who dies before we get to know him, providing Steve's prime motivation. The thing is, I think it's essential that Estaban remain a mystery, because he represents what's missing from Steve's life that he can't name. Steve's motivation isn't about who Estaban was, but the empty place the character left. All we know of Estaban is that Steve loved him, he spoke up for Steve when a TV interviewer took pot shots at him, and, let's take note, he has the same name. I think it's safe to say that Estaban is a part of Steve. He's the interior version of the jaguar shark, a symbol that means everything inside Steve that's now missing. So this brings us to Ned, the fumbled attempt for Steve to become a father. What does this mean? Well, he wanted Ned to take his last name, but also, wanted to rename him Kingsley, the ultimate inflation. He wanted Ned to take on his legacy, to live on in his name. But just before Ned died, Steve recognized that Ned wasn't a connection to his future, but his past. The letters they had exchanged when Ned was a child spoke not to Steve's legacy, but his innocence. They were never father and son, they were peers sharing a wonder at the natural world, and perhaps even a longing to belong to it, if you want to interpret the desire to breath underwater. But the instant Steve recognizes Ned not as his son but as his own lost childhood, the pain of that loss becomes literal with Ned's death. Steve's arrested development, hiding in the refuge of his legend, flirting with younger women while neglecting the worthy partner he once had, all put off the moment he'd have to face this, the reality of his lost youth. Now, he must surrender to it. And that's what this film was about, a man surrendering control of his life. To my mind, it's as great a Wes Anderson film as any, not because I loved Steve the way I loved, say, Monsieur Gustav, but because I found him loathsome, yet felt deeply for him all the same. Steve Zissou is an unflattering portrait of greatness, but I think it's all the more necessary for that. Because the last thing greatness needs is flattery. Admiration doesn't nourish the soul. Only compassion can do that.

what is the song called?

I watched really a lot of movies, probably thousands, for real, and this one is probably my second-favorite of all(the first being the 2019 film the souvenir)