I don't think of Wes Anderson as being anything like a hipster thing. They prefer movies that just don't make any sense.
"Paint," An Owen Wilson Movie with Pipe Smoking
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I couldn't disagree more. It's one of those funny things, where you find someone that seems really genuine and like the presentation isn't that far from the private internal person, and they're that thing that many many people pretend to be. Think about hipster with him in that way. Most hipsters are pousers overly concerned with being cool and in most cases probably start with something real like music and genuinely enjoying. But Wes Anderson seems certainly that thing but not inauthentically.
My complaint would be that the documentary about Ross and the purely dramatic film with Owen Wilson, being available at the same time, will surely get confused in peoples' minds. Fiction from the drama will sift over into the information in the documentary, and vise versa, and the two will forever erode each other.
Shakespeare's "Richard III" is one of his best and most vivid plays, and yet the character portrayed there has forever obliterated the historical person who was an entirely different person, and an entirely different king, also troubled and tragic, but not the same as the king in the play at all.
It doesn't help that Owen Wilson wears the same big hair that Ross did, so there is an impersonation implied.
Shakespeare's "Richard III" is one of his best and most vivid plays, and yet the character portrayed there has forever obliterated the historical person who was an entirely different person, and an entirely different king, also troubled and tragic, but not the same as the king in the play at all.
It doesn't help that Owen Wilson wears the same big hair that Ross did, so there is an impersonation implied.
that happens all the time. Well similar movies that can get confused. Sometimes it's people trying to ride the wake of the other. Sometimes it's just a quirk of development processes. Often it's what I bet happened here in part where they're reacting to the same inspiration and it's triggered by events that exist in time.
I think that both were triggered by an upswing in interest for Bob Ross. Things come in and go out of popularity in waves.
It's true. Money for films follows the trends in public attention, or something like that. "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" retold the Manson murders with a hero and happier ending, completely opposite to the events.
I was very disappointed by the Weird Al Netflix thing as I thought it would be a Biography and it was a total spoof I'm hoping this one even if loosely is more true to life.
Collective unconscious or zeitgeist whatever you want to call it for some reason out of nowhere Pirates became so popular in the early 00's that a friend of mine was able to make a website that was just everything Pirates and support his family for years then poof the fad was gone and he had to move on. Bob Ross is just "IN" right now it seems. Lots of Gen X nostalgia?
I didn't either, but given his demenor it's not really surprising. Lots of people assume he's a pipe smoker, just not for tobacco lol
Yep. Wilson's character in Royal Tennenbaums was definitely a stereotypical pipe smoker being a writer, though his character in Life Aquatic was a deviation from that being a pilot (albeit from Kentucky) and Steve Zissou oddly enough was a joint smoker despite being modeled off Cousteau who was a doubly stereotypical pipe smoker being both a scientist and a ship captain.
Don't forget all the zombie oriented businesses that popped up in the mid 2000s then died out by the early 2010s when The Walking Dead pushed zombies to the oversaturation point.
They filmed it in Saratoga Springs.
I was working there at the time.
They closed down the main drag so I couldn't get my morning cup of coffee.
I will have to recuse myself.
But I admit it looks like a fun flick.
I was working there at the time.
They closed down the main drag so I couldn't get my morning cup of coffee.
I will have to recuse myself.
But I admit it looks like a fun flick.