The books are the one thing about Wes Anderson films that I unreservedly love. Books with such covers were all around when I was growing up---on school library shelves, in second hand bookstores, in my house, everywhere. And yet I've never seen them represented as accurately as they are in Anderson's work.
So many subtle changes. Different paintings on the wall, instead of the abstract faces like Tony we see common landscapes for Carmela. The inside shades of the lamps are missing showing the bright glaring bulbs. This also changes the light in the office as well, Tony has softer brighter light while Carmela’s light is harsh and yet still darker, bringing the mood of the office down. The tables switch from blackened metal to dark natural wood. Carmela has an extra chair in her scene. The statue has different lighting which brings out different lines of muscle and layers of darkness over the face. Tony regards the statue with obvious distrust while Carmela almost seems to be sizing it up. Also the couch is just slightly different. The armrests for Tony are light colored wood with a softer angled bend while Carmela’s are a sharp angled darker wood. Tony has greenery behind his partially open blinds while Carmela’s blinds have tightly shut out the outside world. Dr Melfi lacks glasses and dresses in warmer earth tones for her meeting with Tony, addressing him as Mr Soprano since they are just starting out while Carmela sees her with glasses and a frumpier outfit in drab blues and greys. She also calls her by her first name instead of Mrs soprano. Her smile for Tony is far warmer than it is for Carmela; for her meeting, it’s almost like she’s been dreading it all day and is finally going to face it and get it over with. Read into it what you will.
One quick note the type of car Henry hill was driving has an emergency brake button in the floor next to the brake pedal and I think that is shown in one of the shots of him hitting the brakes
Great work! Don’t forget Mendelsons in Grand Budapest is a reference to Peanuts producer Lee Mendelson and that Boggis Bunce and Beans song is literally exactly a cover of a song in Charlie Browns Thanksgiving!
One of the things that annoys me about language is its inadequacies. For example someone could explain a particular experience to me that I never had before & I'd think that because I think I understand the words that I understand the experience. Then I have that experience myself and I find that NOT ONLY was my expectation of the experience (based on those words) incorrect but that I don't possess the words to convey that experience correctly to anyone else. My theory is that the only reason we have language is because we don't have the ability to directly experience the thing the other person is explaining. Because if we COULD do that we'd drop language in a hot minute & do that instead.
This is going to sound really weird, but I've been feeling really down recently. Lost all energy for everything. Particularly, I haven't felt engaged with my passion, film. This video brought that joy back a little. Thank you :)
i think you nailed roy andersson's style quite well when you said it's your own mind that does the editor's work, how you can decide for yourself on where your attention takes you. and how that turns you from a passive observer into an active one. i haven't thought of it that way before.
Great job. Do you guys perhaps know the name of the french film that inspired The Royal Tenenbaums? Saw the name a long time ago but now I can't find it. I believe it too is a film about a family unit.
I FKN hate when they show the phone screen from like 30 cms and I'm supposed to be able to read that. I needed a place to say this for soooooooo long. Thank you.
Maybe because Tony is way more closed off than her (in the beginning), perhaps Carmela is more expressive, Tony kinda resides in more darkness than her as well
Well these scenes are like 3 years apart in the shows timeline, so maybe Melfi made some decor changes. Or more realistically the set designers fucked up or no longer had the pieces.
One of the most obvious ones is omitted. The entire Belafonte sequence is a direct homage to a scene from the Godard movie with Jane Fonda but I can’t remember the name right now.
BOOOOOOO!!! THERE'S NO PART 3 TWO YEARS LATER THERE'S NO PART 3 IS IT CONSIDERED A CANCELLED PART 3 FOR NO REASON THERE WILL NEVER BE A PART 3 NO TRILOGY TO BE COMPLETED FALSE PROMISES YOU NEED TO MAKE ONE
10:55 BEYOND THE FRAME, what's the missteps over the years of American human association? could you continue were you just left off with Milo and honest? have animals been sanctioned by the American humane, did you take a look at it? should we trust the animal American humane disclaimer, did you answer it? if you have the answers then I have ANOTHER question, will there be a part 3 on American Humane Association History or not?
I never saw the movie but I think it was called cannibal Holocaust famous in horror circles because they killed a turtle on it. Be interesting if you included this in the vid.
Jesus. Pardon my French, but this fucking unbelievable - both Anderson's total mastery of the medium and your mastery in synthesizing his. Unbefuckinglievable. To think, I've wanted to hate him for so long (Anderson, that is). Instead, I just ignore him, obviously, to my own detriment.
