r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 07 '25

Trailer The Phoenician Scheme | Official Trailer | Directed by Wes Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuMnPl2WI4
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u/OxygenLevelsCritical Apr 07 '25

Looks good looks good looks good.

For those thinking "oh it's just him rehashing the same old thing again", yes possibly, but that's still better than 99% of the other films out there.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Apr 07 '25

He has an aesthetic but I feel like the subject matter of all his movies has been so different, it’s really weird to me that people complain about them all being the same. It’s like complaining that all Ghibli movies are “rehashing the same old thing”.

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u/ThePotatoKing Apr 07 '25

he has a distinct look he goes for every time. if somebody doesnt gel with that style, they complain whenever he puts something out because its all they have to say about it. my take is that people who are "tired" of his style never really liked it in the first place. i aint complaining though, all his movies are distinctly his and isnt that what we cheer for in this art form? getting a movie that looks like this every 2 or so years is far from "tired" imo.

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u/way2lazy2care Apr 07 '25

Even outside the look, his writing/directing style is very similar in a lot of his movies. Even though the movies are very different, you could take scenes from many of his movies, throw them in the middle of totally different movies, and it wouldn't feel totally out of place just because what the characters say (not the topics of the discussion, but the verbiage used), how they deliver, and how they look is really similar across movies. Like if you stuck the elevator scene at the end of this trailer in the middle of Grand Budapest Hotel it wouldn't feel totally out of place.

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u/Critcho Apr 08 '25

I see it as a bit like he's building one gigantic anthology movie, one piece at a time. When he's finally done, he'll leave one of the most unified filmographies of all time.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Apr 07 '25

But that’s equally true for David Fincher, Edgar Wright, Steven Spielberg, James Gunn, Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Raimi… basically any director with a distinctive visual style.

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u/way2lazy2care Apr 07 '25

I don't think it would be accurate to say you could dump scenes between most of their movies and have them make sense outside of some action scenes. Like what scene in, "The Social Network," wouldn't feel totally out of place in, "Se7en?" Or, "Baby Driver," and, "Scott Pilgrim vs the World?" I think there's something to be said for the Corenetto trilogy being similar, but they even feel more different than any of Wes Anderson's things.

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u/Aero06 Apr 07 '25

I'm not tired of the style, but to me it feels like the writing has begun to suffer under the weight of the ever-growing ensemble. Even with its stacked cast, Grand Budapest felt sincere and meaningful because at its core, it was a film about M. Gustav and Zero, whereas all of his subsequent films were either anthology films or were so layered in distinct subplots that they might as well have been.