Thursday, 20 July 2017

Bottle Rocket (1996 Wes Anderson)

Owen Wilson and Wes wrote a film in the warm influence of They All Laughed. It bombed.

It's a fun, delightful film, very quirky, filmed in a beautiful style in which characters are blocked in scenes in interesting ways (we often have one of them very near to the foreground), with great depth of field from Robert Yeoman, and good lighting in long tracking shots. There's also evidence of the way Wes likes characters to pop in to the frame.

With Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave (who was not in Hard Times at Ridgemont High), Lumi Cavazos, James Caan and Kumar Pallana (who looks like he's been told nothing about the plot whatsoever). The bully is played by a Teddy Wilson, but despite my earlier claim he is not one of those Wilsons. And the uncredited cast includes Antonia Bogdanovich and Leslie Mann.

Dignan a hilarious name taken from one of their friends (as is 'Tennenbaum'), great little motorbike, scene with gun, housekeeping etc.


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