Quote of the Day: Why We Love Wes Anderson, as told by Martin Scorsese

[kerishma]

“Anderson has a fine sense of how music works against an image. There’s the beautiful ending of Rushmore, when Miss Cross removes Max Fischer’s glasses and gazes into the boy’s eyes - really the eyes of her dead husband - as the Faces’ “Ooh La La” plays on the soundtrack. And I also love the scene in Bottle Rocket when Owen Wilson’s character,

Comments

[pen_necklace]

Wes Anderson is Martin Scorsese's little prodigy. Tarantino tried really hard for the title, but it goes to Wes Anderson! The slow motion, the music, the tracking shots! And I still think Scorsese picked up on a lot of things from Hitchcock

Scorsese's use of music is one of my favorite things about his movies--it gives setting, mood, and propels the narrative. It's why Goodfellas is so good.

[kerishma]

Yeah, the Scorsese-Hitchcock similarities are there. Like how his blonde leading ladies are usually seen as angelic and almost always wear white in their first scene. And the slow motion shots of them too are definitely Hitchcock-esque. The slow motion shots, definitely.