MPC #136: Wes Anderson | 4/2 - 4/16

[From_the_NEK]

Anybody else?

[zartagen]

[ridinshockgun]

Ford Truck by cbkoontz, on Flickr

IMG_3766 by cbkoontz, on Flickr

[Supermoon]

Shit. Shot one last night, but I'm not going to be able to post it until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

[From_the_NEK]

Shit. Shot one last night, but I'm not going to be able to post it until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Just post it. This MPC needs more entries!

[Supermoon]

2)

[grskier]

LOVE this one... wish I had been paying attention.

[Fuzz]

Alright, I think I'll close this off and put up a voting thread. Some superb entries.

[mud]

The things that strike me about his scenes are:

• Straight-on -- he rarely shoots at an angle, almost always shooting straight-on; almost no depth.
• Symmetry with a twist -- most of his shots are quite symmetrical, but he also manages to create a bit of imbalance to break the symmetry, either with colour, pattern, numbers, size, contrast, etc.
• Attention to colour -- he pays attention to the colours present in each scene (usually minimal, often complementary or analogous) and you definitely notice the colours.

Always though the was following in Kubrick's footsteps, he has original storylines but always seems to be riffing on Stanley's photo ideas. Sorry I missed out on this shoot.