What's up with all those Wes Anderson spoofs?
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up fast, so Slate has a video called "If Filmmakers Directed The Super Bowl." Here you can find by-the-numbers appropriations of various filmmakers: football footage intercut with anime and "Kill Bill" font and songs spell "Tarantino." For Lynch, run the footage backwards. For Wes Anderson, by all means play "This Time Tomorrow" while running a random shot in slo-mo. It's odd how many Anderson parodies there are out in the world. This week also saw the arrival of "Wes Anderson Spider-Man." I also found "Ramsey's First Grade Journal by Wes Anderson", "wes anderson's john mccain ad"[sic]. They're all the same, with the variable of a voice-over narrator --the slo-mo, the soundtrack choices, the flat line readings. It's weird how people gravitate towards the most reductive view of Anderson's work. Okay, not that weird -- this is the internet, where literal-mindedness always reads well. And Anderson...
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