Wes Anderson's films were all fun to watch in class because the movies were all light-hearted. Bottle Rocket and Rushmore both had many similarities and the styles were also similar. Both films had many close ups along with quick pans. They also both had slow motion shots at the ends. Anderson's films usually contain a middle aged character whose life is crumbling apart. In Rushmore, Herman Blume was very depressed with his life and in Bottle Rocket, Dignan seemed to be at a hopeless point in his life. Dignan was very stupid and he naturally sees the positive things which made the fact that he was so dumb funny.
The movie I watched on my own was The Royal Tenenbaums. From the start, I could tell that this movie had many sumilarities to the other two. Just like the others, this movie wasn't a movie where the plot needed to be analyzed. It was a very light movie with dry humor just like the others. The movie made the family seem very fictional. The kids were aspiring stars at a young age, and it was clear that this was a movie to be laughed at, not analyzed. The movie used a lot of music similar to the other films. The music Wes Anderson uses is very odd calm music. There were tons of close ups to characters and the narraration was similar to Rushmore. The movie used close ups on characters while the narrator gave us backround on the characters. This reminded me of Rushmore where it showed all the extracurricular activities Max was in. Wes Anderson movies in my opinion, are movies made to get cheap laughs out of people. They are not very funny if you don't like to laugh at dry humor, but Wes Anderson had found much success making these movies.
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