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wwrite about Wes Anderson’s life and workI found it very easy to imagine him as one of his characters: cultured and impeccably dressed, quiet but sweet-witted, lively In the center of our world and a little outside tooEven at a young age, Anderson knew she didn’t quite fit in, and her work as an artist has always been filled with a sense of longing, for where? Well, that is the question,
Arguably this was his third film, 2001 Royal TenenbaumsHe The Sacha Anderson brand emerged – At least, that’s when critics really started using the word “weird.” But his second, rushmoreImportant Bridge, a film in which many of his stylistic trademarks The first to appear are: precocious child, use of wide anamorphic lenses, literary or dramatic structure.
It was also his first real test as a leader since debuting in 1996 bottle rocket was created almost entirely with the help of friends and acquaintances. That’s why Anderson, so famous, tend to stick with the same associatesIn front of and behind the camera. He has created a family of his own imagination, kindred spirit by kindred spirit. and it was rushmore which provided its two founding members: Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
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max fischer, rushmoreThe teen hero is not Wes Anderson. He has consistently refused explanation. However, he is a romantic ideal for wayward children with big ambitions and limited material success. He is a Don Quixote of the academic set, obsessed with the knightly idea of academic achievement – the only man in school who pairs his blue shirt with a navy blazer, his enamelled pins fastened to his lapel for punctuality and perfect attendance. Yet, as Headmaster Nelson Guggenheim (Brian Cox) laments, “He’s one of our worst students.”
After being “suddenly placed on academic probation”, Max seeks solace in a vain crush on first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), whom he discovers after finding a quote written inside a book by oceanographer Jacques Cousteau: “When a man, for whatever reason, obtains the opportunity of living an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.” This leads him into a rivalry with a local steel magnate, Herman Bloom (Bill Murray).
For the role of Max, Anderson envisioned a “15-year-old Mick Jagger”, a set of bones with a sharp wit behind the eyes. But, after a year of auditions, he became discouraged. At one point, he toyed with the idea that Max would speak with a fake English accent, “which would actually be a real English accent because we would use an English actor. We were just coming up with really bizarre ideas.” There was one month left for the shooting of the film to begin. It seemed as if Anderson would have to scrap the entire project and start from scratch.
Davia Nelson, who was overseeing casting for the film in Northern California, was at a party held in honor of composer Carmine Coppola, father of famed director Francis Ford Coppola. She joined in the conversation with Francis Ford’s daughter, Sophia, herself a director, and mentioned that she was working on a project about an idealistic teen infatuated with an older woman. Sophia replied, “He sounds like my cousin.”
Jason Schwartzman, 17-year-old son of religious personTalia Shire, and nephew of Francis Ford, came to the event in a rented tuxedo with top hat and cane. Last summer, he wrote and directed a play. Three years ago, she fell in love with her live-in tutor, a swimmer on the UCLA team. He told her, “Look, I want you to know that I’m madly in love with you.” She replied, “I don’t think it will work right now.” He was a musician, not an actor, the drummer for the indie band Phantom Planet, whose song “California” became the theme of the teen series ocBut, when he read the script, something clicked: “I just remember thinking, ‘This is everything I think is funny in one movie,'”
He agreed to an audition, missed school for a day and arrived wearing a blazer he had decorated with handmade Rushmore Academy patches. As soon as he met Anderson, his nervousness started to disappear. The director wore Converse One Star sandals, while Schwartzman wore green New Balance with bright red reflectors. They praised each other’s shoe choice. then he talked pinkertonWeezer album.
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About twenty minutes passed before Schwartzman saw his script. “I remember thinking and maybe even saying, ‘I don’t know if we should do this [do the scene] Because it’s gone so well,” Schwartzman said. ”’I do not want. This is enough. you’re so awesome. Let’s not ruin it.” But they don’t have to worry. Anderson had found his new star, collaborator and friend.
Schwartzman didn’t look like Jagger, but he reminded Anderson of Dustin Hoffman Graduate – That softer, more soulful look. To turn 15, Schwartzman had his chest waxed. It took about two hours.
Max tells everyone that his father is a neurosurgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. In fact, he is the son of a barber at Rushmore (Seymour Castle, known for his work with John Cassavetes), by the grace of a scholarship. Bloom’s success, which is largely driven by resentment, gives Max hope that his grandiose facade may, one day, turn into positive outcomes.
Anderson and Wilson wrote the role with Bill Murray in mind, once they hoped to cast him in it. bottle rocketThey were fans, As a child, Anderson wore a Ghostbuster costume for Halloween, But identifying the actor was extremely difficult, and possibly beyond his ability, so he dismissed the idea as wishful thinking,
Nevertheless, he sent the script to Murray rushmore and a copy of bottle rocketHe read the script, but did not see the film, His agents sent him another copy, Murray called Anderson, The director asked if he had seen bottle rocketHe again did not do so, so Anderson sent him another copy, He finished with four overall, He didn’t see anyone,
However, the script attracted him. Murray said, “I thought the writing was so specific that whoever wrote it knew exactly what they were going to shoot.” “I’ve never had a problem with people who make a movie that fails as long as they make the movie they want to make.” His last two projects, comedies larger than life (1996) and the man who knew very little (1997) disappointed critics and audiences alike. but with this rushmoreHe can better channel the intense, self-wounding sadness that seems to underlie even his broadest characters.
When Murray called Anderson, he didn’t talk much about the role. Instead, the actor began narrating Akira Kurosawa’s story to him. red beardAbout a doctor with powerful ambitions who is disappointed when he is sent to a rural clinic. They talked about the film for about an hour.
Anderson had not seen it. He later looked at it, and still couldn’t really understand why Murray had brought it up. At the end of the conversation, the actor concluded: “Yeah, I think I will… I will rushmore With you, yes.” He waived the fee Anderson offered, which was already lower than usual, and agreed to do the film for the standard Screen Actors Guild day rate, a total of $9,000.
The director was, at first, “a little horrified”. She had heard that Murray had a somewhat unstable personality (she had heard a story that he had thrown someone into a lake). Schwartzman was also nervous about meeting Murray. “He’s someone I grew up watching,” he said. “His films mean a lot to me and now suddenly I’m working with him. Now we have the same work.” Murray flew to Houston the night before shooting began, and the pair faced a disastrous rehearsal in Anderson’s hotel room.
“It was horrible, absolutely horrible,” Murray said. “And I got really depressed and went straight to the bar straight after. I had to work with this guy I didn’t know anything about.” Just before the cameras started rolling, Murray awkwardly whispered in Schwartzman’s ear: “Just try to take this shot one at a time, kid, I want to go golfing today.” As Schwartzman said, “It was a little scary to hear that from Ghostbuster.”
Despite Anderson’s nervousness, he connected with Murray almost immediately. He admired her intelligence. Schwartzman also spoke warmly of him: “About halfway through I realized he was just softening me up. It was all on purpose.” When Disney refused to pay for the helicopter shot, Murray wrote Anderson a check for approximately $25,000. The director changed his mind on the shot, but kept the cheque.
‘Wes Anderson: A Retrospective’ by Clarice Loughrey Published by Gemini Books On 4 December (hardback, RRP £35); Wes Anderson: The Archive Is On At the Design Museum, London till 26th july