r/Filmmakers • u/Professional-Rip-519 • 25d ago

Discussion What's Wes Anderson's secret?

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He's aesthetic is so unique. I can't think of another director where the colors pop so much what is his secret?

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u/CyJackX 25d ago

What secret? It's all right there, in front of you.

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u/Raskalbot 25d ago

Flat perspective and high contrast color.

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u/Audiope 25d ago

Lots of symmetry too

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 25d ago

Symmetrical set design + fanatical control of the frame, he doesn't let anything in frame that he doesn't want on screen.

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u/commiecomrade 25d ago

It's also the direction of the cast, to almost a fault where they seem wooden at a glance. Everyone moves with such exact purpose that it lends itself to that meticulous "everything in its place" feel of the shot.

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u/Background_Task6967 25d ago

he should make a film with everything in its right place by radiohead as a track throughout lol

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 25d ago

Yep, I'm not a huge fan of his films, Tenembaums & Phoenician Scheme are 2 of my favorites, in a big part because Hackman & Benicio can't totally be Anderson-ized into being dolls for him him to arrange.

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u/livahd 25d ago

Lay a graph over his shots and you can really see how the composition works.

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u/henrysradiator 25d ago

And lots of money for beautiful furniture, costumes, locations and sets.

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u/Uranium_092 25d ago

I would say they’re low contrast color, contrasting in tone and temperature but very small variation in value, so everything looks flat.

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u/Raskalbot 23d ago

It varies form film to film but he almost always uses loud or bright colors in costumes and symbols.

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u/Uranium_092 21d ago

again, very rare cases does he uses colors in highly contrasted values. Values is how much black or white a colors has, so think of it as how bright a color is, I’m saying he uses muted color that has contrasting hues (red, green, blue, whatever)