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How Working in Animation Made Wes Anderson the Director He Is Today
The auteur responsible for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' and 'Isle of Dogs' explained why he was drawn to stop-motion and how it influenced his aesthetic since.
Over the course of a 90-minute master class, Anderson discussed what drew him to stop motion, how coming to the medium from a place of naiveté resulted in such distinctive-looking movies, and how animation in turn has informed his subsequent live-action work. “It’s a great big giant set, built on Stage 5 at Cinecitta, Fellini’s stage.”As for the dolphins seen swimming beneath the boat, “They should have been animated, but in fact, they’re robots,” said Anderson, who’d never had such resources to work with — and still managed to go about $10 million and 20 days over budget. “There was a part of ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ where I thought we might do something like that, but this one, it seemed built into it.” To have attempted the car chase in live-action, “it would be two and a half or three weeks of shooting, and I think it would be compromised,” said Anderson, who also directed a hand-drawn music video for the Jarvis Cocker cover of Christophe’s “Aline.”
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