A recent online trend has seen users mock up Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings in the director’s distinctive style but is he beyond parody?
Similarly, last week a lumpy, ugly AI-assisted trailer emerged online, created by a YouTube user called Curious Refuge. The trailer’s title was Star Wars by Wes Anderson and, even if you haven’t seen it, you already know how it goes. The sets are all highly symmetrical. The cast includes Edward Norton and Willem Dafoe standing around blinking listlessly. There’s a bit where they list all the weapons they’ll need, including a paper aeroplane for added whimsy. C-3PO looks like a pencil drawing.
, whereby people try to do mundane things in a Wes Anderson way, in which all they do is stand completely still with an unaffected look on their face in a succession of symmetrical and slightly old-looking locations. One does it in Spain. One does it in a burger shop.in a launderette. It’s the sort of thing that is slightly funny once, and then intensely annoying for the rest of time.
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