Auteur: Wes Anderson

Films:

- The Grand Budapest Hotel

- Moonrise Kingdom

- The Royal Tenenbaums

- Rushmore

Signature Style:

- Use of perfectly centred shots and symmetrical compositions

- Primary colour palettes
- Futura font typography
- Films often split into episodic chapters which are displayed as title cards on screen
- Symmetrical shots of characters are often emphasised through medium and wide shots
- Top-shots (shots from directly above) are very common when focusing on an object
- Shots of conversations between characters are shot from POV rather than from over the shoulder and the characters are placed in the centre of the frame
- Unnatural camerawork, e.g. stationary pans, dramatic zooms
- Retro (60s) feel
- Mise-en-scene loaded with objects
- Characters wear very similar costumes

- "Sunflower aesthetic" - symbolising connections between the sun, fire, warmth)

- Human values of kindness, respect, truth, balance

- Often magical realist world with youthful characters

- Based on outsider characters that are struggling to come to terms with adulthood, longing for their past or are stuck in a space where they don't fit

- Films are quite melancholy but are full of hope

- Generally works with the same cast and crew
- All music comes from Mark Mothersbaugh or Alexandre Desplat
- Common themes of death, fatherhood, forbidden love

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