Looking back on it after the trailer for The French Dispatch has been released, the brilliance of this trailer is only magnified. It captures everything perfectly, for both Wes Anderson's most devoted fans singing his praises *and* simultaneously people who hate his work with a passion. When both sides can go "yeah, that's about it", you know you did your work right.
I don't get the dislike for THE DARJEELING LIMITED. I really think that's one of his very best films! I suspect anyone's favorite Wes Anderson film is just the one that you relate to the most.
@DarthEd77 Boy, You sure said it, Ed! I dont get the poor ranking by seemingly many Wes fans! I thought it was a masterpiece, by equal turns cathartic and enchanting! A Magical Mystery Tour if you will! At first it seemed the only two devoted Anderson fans I knew thought it was just ok, or didnt care for it as much. Now it seems, as with the Honest Trailer Crew, that I hear many Wesheads either say its men, or ranking it their least fav! Honestly, its been my favorite by Wes for quite a while, but after Moonrise Kingdom was released, and after finally seeing Mr. Fox about 3 yrs ago, it may be trumped, but I dont know. Depends on the day, I suppose. Then again, I liked Life Aquatic and it seemed not many people "got" that one. Or if they even knew Wes' work, they didnt like Aquatic, cause it wasnt Tenenbaums! Whenever I put Darjheeling on, it feels like I'm going on a much needed, exotic vacation. Heck, There was even a time when I was going through some stress, and I played it on a continual loop, on and off again for a couple of days. Casting my cares on God, and playing that movie (even if just in the background), helped me through that period! I especially love the scene set to music by the Kinks, where Adrian Brody is running in slo-mo, to catch up to the train and finally boards it! And then right as he sees his brother Schwartzbaum, how the music lifts up briefly! Love it!! Btw, Darth Ed, curious with your user name, if you're a fan of the band, the 77's?
On one hand, if you had asked me what celebrity voice the fill-in VO guy was doing I probably never would have guessed Alec Baldwin. On the other hand, his read was fantastic. The tone was perfect, and he nailed every comic beat in the script. I seriously wouldn't have known it wasn't just Jon doing another voice if you hadn't said. So kudos, Screen Junky co-worker!
I rank them: 1. The Royal Tenenbaums 2. The Grand Budapest Hotel 3. Moonrise Kingdom 4. Fantastic Mr. Fox 5. Rushmore 6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 7. Bottle Rocket 8. The Darjeeling Limited
My favorites. 1. Bottle Rocket 2. Rushmore 3. Royal Tenenbaums 4. Life Aquatic 5. Darjeeling Limited 6. Grand Budapest Hotel Did not see Fantastic Mr Fox. Moonrise Kingdom.
Dan makes an interesting point about tactile technology. There's something to the feel of the clicking of a typewriter and the stroke of a brush, that you don't get with a touch-screen or a mouse. In a lot of futurist sci-fi, people don't even touch things anymore, they just wave their hands at holograms in the air. It gives a very interesting "feel" to Wes' movies (pun intended), like you're not just watching it, but physically involved in it somehow. And it's not just the tech either. The way he directs the actors, you're not just watching them feel things, you feel like you are the actor feeling the thing, or doing the thing. It's actually a facinating way of capturing the audience.
Yes but of an individual movie, or movies. Kubrick deserves an Honest Trailer, but he wasn't as formulaic and repetitive (apart from visual style). It's hard to lump "Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" into the same bucket.
Agreed - there are some trademark specific technical elements (eg. lens choices, framing choices) but there is almost nothing formulaic about his work.
Exactly. He also created sort of an universe. A ton of themes repeats over and over. I loved "old" Lynch, but "modern" Lynch sort of turned into an auto-parody in my perspective.
Moonrise Kingdom was my first Was Anderson & it's still my favorite but I've so many to catch up on. Great honest trailer guys particularly the starring run. I tried to explain Was Anderson films to my brother after he watched the great Family Guy parody, now I can show him this :D
I am the batman it was quite literally a fusion of pure gold and absolute shit divided by scenes. Luke’s finale: brilliant, everything with Finn and Rose: complete crap. Rey and the island: awesome, Poe and the lady general no disclosing the plan for no reason leading to ultimately irrelevant time consuming drama: crap. It was kind of like the first draft to the script didn’t make it to the editors and got made rather than redrafted a few times. Now terrible but far from as good as it could have been. Also for anyone who says it was the worst Star Wars I have four words for you: “This is pod racing.”
Jonathan Peck Dan: "Please suggest directors with limited filmographies, because I'll have to watch them all." You: "Do a guy who hasn't had any more than a three year break between movies for over 40 years!"
I can't think of many film makers that were obviously influenced by Wes Anderson. I remember seeing a movie called Band of Robbers a few years ago that kind of reminded me of the quirkiness, but otherwise Wes Anderson really is his own genre like you say.
Would be casually interested to see an HT for Sofia Coppola's work - some decent themes between films and interesting commentary with her father/relationship to hollywood.
Wes Anderson makes a movie about a foreign service woman with a functional family and a heist against an unhelpful imperialist man that goes surprisingly well and they get away on a tiny motorcycle that ends on a profile shot that whip pans into typewritten credits.
This format is perfect! It opens up a whole world of films that are either too good or too funny to riff on their own. Please do Scorsese w/ a Jon Bailey De Niro V.O.
Wes Anderson graduated from the University of Texas. I believe that's where he met Owen Wilson, also an alum of UT. The motto of Austin is "Keep Austin Weird", so Wes probably fit in there quite well!
Moonrise Kingdom and Royal Tennenbaums are in my top 5, the former is just so heartwarming and the later with the devastating mirror scene. Luke Wilson has never had as much dramatic effect as in that scene.
I read a story about Spike Jonz ages ago in which the writer claimed that while he was talking to Jonz, a much larger guy tried to beat him up and Jonz ended up destroying him.
You could do a Kevin Smith honest trailer because you could literally have him come help you and he'd be like "I always do this, you guys should include this"
His Henry wouldn't have had to leave a notebook for his mom, the target would have tripped the most insane Rub Goldbergian series of devices and been killed 2 weeks after it's initial tripping by a falling Underwood Typewriter that had a forged suicide note set to complete upon the final punctuation mark. Or some such thing.
Even though I think HISHE already did a tremendous job with this movie and will be hard to top, I'm so looking forward for next week's Honest Trailer! I'd love to see your take on this...
So his motifs are basically everything removed from other modern movies: smoking, realistic punches in the face, whip pans (even Edgar Wright is stopping using them), killing animals, handwriting-typing-taping, Wilson brothers, etc.
Good Job. I agreed with almost everything. As i acknowledge that the classic "killing animals / serial killer's childhood" joke is humorous and a well that you guys seemed to enjoy revisiting...I would argue that any time an animal does die, it quickly jumps to a character very eager to show how tough they are by saying they couldn't care less. Thus revealing how much they really do care. (like Steve Zissou's tabby) I haven't had the pleasure or the employment to recently revisit all of the films but i believe most of the animal deaths are met this way, except for Jeff Goldblum's cat but that was just hilarious and maybe done just for the payoff of him holding up a bag of dead cat at Dafoe in disgust. And to even suggest Buckley's death didn't have significance and didn't directly lead to almost all of the Tenenbaums finally moving on and mending their relationships is just silly. His passing was just as vital to the end of that Oscar nominated script as Black track suits and Sir Van Morrison.
My ranking of favorites 1. Bottle Rocket 2. Rushmore 3. Royal Tenenbaums 4. Life Aquatic 5. Darjeeling Limited 6. Grand Budapest Hotel Did not see Fantastic Mr Fox. Moonrise Kingdom.
1: Bergman (100 Year Anniversary) 2: David Lynch 3: Martin Scorses (with emphasis on the non-crime films) 4: Charlie Kaufman (before the Netflix film) 5: James Gray (Before Ad Astra)
Henry G Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze Do you really want to make them marathon Lynch ? Other than the fact he’s one of the few filmmakers capable of dread to the point of creeping viewers out have you even seen “Rabbits” you can’t ask someone to explain that
The smile on Dan´s face while the "starring" part is playing, with all the tropes he mentioned early, is priceless!!!
This was the BEST Honest Trailer I've ever seen (and I LOVE Honest trailers and Wes Anderson). You guys are awesome!! Great job.
Looking back on it after the trailer for The French Dispatch has been released, the brilliance of this trailer is only magnified. It captures everything perfectly, for both Wes Anderson's most devoted fans singing his praises *and* simultaneously people who hate his work with a passion. When both sides can go "yeah, that's about it", you know you did your work right.
Wes Anderson is the Dollhouse Killer. 😂
I'm calling it - this was the greatest Honest Trailer in history. Funny, yet searingly insightful. Better than any serious analysis I have ever seen.
I don't get the dislike for THE DARJEELING LIMITED. I really think that's one of his very best films! I suspect anyone's favorite Wes Anderson film is just the one that you relate to the most.
darjeling limited is wes anderson best film for me. i'm related to the story
Nerdwriter has an interesting video about Darjeeling and how preference for a certain Wes Anderson movie is based on relatability.
@DarthEd77 Boy, You sure said it, Ed! I dont get the poor ranking by seemingly many Wes fans! I thought it was a masterpiece, by equal turns cathartic and enchanting! A Magical Mystery Tour if you will! At first it seemed the only two devoted Anderson fans I knew thought it was just ok, or didnt care for it as much. Now it seems, as with the Honest Trailer Crew, that I hear many Wesheads either say its men, or ranking it their least fav!
Honestly, its been my favorite by Wes for quite a while, but after Moonrise Kingdom was released, and after finally seeing Mr. Fox about 3 yrs ago, it may be trumped, but I dont know. Depends on the day, I suppose. Then again, I liked Life Aquatic and it seemed not many people "got" that one. Or if they even knew Wes' work, they didnt like Aquatic, cause it wasnt Tenenbaums!
Whenever I put Darjheeling on, it feels like I'm going on a much needed, exotic vacation. Heck, There was even a time when I was going through some stress, and I played it on a continual loop, on and off again for a couple of days. Casting my cares on God, and playing that movie (even if just in the background), helped me through that period!
I especially love the scene set to music by the Kinks, where Adrian Brody is running in slo-mo, to catch up to the train and finally boards it! And then right as he sees his brother Schwartzbaum, how the music lifts up briefly! Love it!! Btw, Darth Ed, curious with your user name, if you're a fan of the band, the 77's?
My favorite film maker is Wes Anderson. Thank you for giving his work attention.
Do the Coen brothers! They're so varied!!
It's got to be Quentin Tarantino next right?
Seems like an obvious choice, yes
ta-ran-tin-no - ta-ran-tin-no - ta-ran-tin-no
Samuel L. Jackson.. Swearing.. Firearm standoff.. Meme..
Swearing Samuel L Jackson in a firearm standoff becoming a meme.
thats what my mind went to first aswell
The Cornetto Trilogy would be my pick hands down.
"literal white noise" gOD BLESS
On one hand, if you had asked me what celebrity voice the fill-in VO guy was doing I probably never would have guessed Alec Baldwin. On the other hand, his read was fantastic. The tone was perfect, and he nailed every comic beat in the script. I seriously wouldn't have known it wasn't just Jon doing another voice if you hadn't said. So kudos, Screen Junky co-worker!
I rank them:
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Rushmore
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Bottle Rocket
8. The Darjeeling Limited
My favorites.
1. Bottle Rocket
2. Rushmore
3. Royal Tenenbaums
4. Life Aquatic
5. Darjeeling Limited
6. Grand Budapest Hotel
Did not see
Fantastic Mr Fox.
Moonrise Kingdom.
A Martin Scorsese career trailer would be awesome.
Tim freaking Burton
I need to see this now!
Yes YES
Yessss
YAASSSSS!
Isn’t that just like emo Wes Anderson... Now they definitely need to do it.
DO THE CORNETTO TRILOGY!!!!
That long run at the end was great, I really laughed as it kept going and going. Knocked this one out of the park guys. Bravo.
I've never seen a Wes Anderson movie before, and yet I think this might be my favorite Honest Trailer ever!
This was such an amazing Honest Trailer. Great job guys! I hope you guys do this with more directors.
Dan makes an interesting point about tactile technology. There's something to the feel of the clicking of a typewriter and the stroke of a brush, that you don't get with a touch-screen or a mouse. In a lot of futurist sci-fi, people don't even touch things anymore, they just wave their hands at holograms in the air. It gives a very interesting "feel" to Wes' movies (pun intended), like you're not just watching it, but physically involved in it somehow.
And it's not just the tech either. The way he directs the actors, you're not just watching them feel things, you feel like you are the actor feeling the thing, or doing the thing. It's actually a facinating way of capturing the audience.
Try Stanley Kubrick Honest Trailer.
Yes but of an individual movie, or movies. Kubrick deserves an Honest Trailer, but he wasn't as formulaic and repetitive (apart from visual style). It's hard to lump "Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" into the same bucket.
Agreed - there are some trademark specific technical elements (eg. lens choices, framing choices) but there is almost nothing formulaic about his work.
Jonathan Peck to many movies
I really wanna see one of those!
When you say, "Isle of Dogs" it sounds like you're saying, "I Love Dogs"... *mind blown*
Guillermo del Toro
Edgar Wright
Not a director, but a Daniel Day Lewis Honest Trailer would be awesome
David Lynch????
Exactly. He also created sort of an universe. A ton of themes repeats over and over. I loved "old" Lynch, but "modern" Lynch sort of turned into an auto-parody in my perspective.
Moonrise Kingdom was my first Was Anderson & it's still my favorite but I've so many to catch up on. Great honest trailer guys particularly the starring run. I tried to explain Was Anderson films to my brother after he watched the great Family Guy parody, now I can show him this :D
My favorite career would be Richard Linklater. Every movie of his is something I love and he’s definitely a good mix of beloved and unknown for this
I'd definitely like to see an honest trailer of Christopher Nolan's directorial filmography!
Peter John Jude I’m a bit late telling you but they did it!
Nick Nguyen, I know right! th-cam.com/video/IpN_wAlYZSs/w-d-xo.html
If you are going for a carer episode, Kevin Smith would be fun :P
bandholm amen
Yes!
Would love to see this. Even if they just covered the View Askew movies.
And get Kevin in on the Commentary too! He's a huge friend of the show!
YES PLEASE DO THIS! #HonestTrailer #KevinSmithMovies "DO IT!!!"
"They're like poetry, they rhyme"
Cool, so next week is The Last Jedi (unless you've pulled that switcheroo you talked about a couple of weeks ago, and it turns out to be He-Man...)
It'd be hilarious if they actually committed to that bit
The ultimate way to troll your fans XD
The Last Jedi, He-Man, or some weird Danish movie, i'll still watch next week.
neil upfalow it's a great movie
I am the batman it was quite literally a fusion of pure gold and absolute shit divided by scenes. Luke’s finale: brilliant, everything with Finn and Rose: complete crap. Rey and the island: awesome, Poe and the lady general no disclosing the plan for no reason leading to ultimately irrelevant time consuming drama: crap.
It was kind of like the first draft to the script didn’t make it to the editors and got made rather than redrafted a few times. Now terrible but far from as good as it could have been.
Also for anyone who says it was the worst Star Wars I have four words for you: “This is pod racing.”
Please do Taika Waititi!
Brilliant! Kubrick retrospective - not too many films and some of the greatest movies ever made!
This commentary is so..... soothing.
Excited for next week! :))
Do David Fincher!
I fell asleep during Darjeeling too, but it also introduced me to the most beautiful song ever.
I live like an hour away from where they filmed Moonrise Kingdom.
Tarintino is almost a perfect director to do filmography type of trailers.
Do Steven Spielberg Honest Trailer with Ready Player One coming out.
Jonathan Peck Dan: "Please suggest directors with limited filmographies, because I'll have to watch them all."
You: "Do a guy who hasn't had any more than a three year break between movies for over 40 years!"
That's probably way too many films. O.O
You should do a Nora Ephron career Honest Trailer.
AaronNetsky yessssss! And Penny Marshal and Sophia Coppola.
Please do Hayao Miyazaki. About half of his filmography is short films anyway.
That “staring” transition was great
Every Martin McDonagh movie,. In Bruges, 7 Psychopaths and 3 billboards
All exceptional as hell!!!
Grand Budapest is my second favorite movie of all time! So happy with this trailer
Gosh I loved this honest trailer!!!
I can't think of many film makers that were obviously influenced by Wes Anderson. I remember seeing a movie called Band of Robbers a few years ago that kind of reminded me of the quirkiness, but otherwise Wes Anderson really is his own genre like you say.
Do a Christopher Guest retrospective.
thank you Wes Anderson for introducing me to Seu Jorge.
and thanks for the great work Screen Junkies
I think this is the best one yet
Moonrise Kingdom is still my fav!
Honest Trailers- Kevin Smith
Wes Anderson is an original american film maker...
who watched a lot of Luis Buñuel
and Francois Truffaut
Would be casually interested to see an HT for Sofia Coppola's work - some decent themes between films and interesting commentary with her father/relationship to hollywood.
Wes Anderson makes a movie about a foreign service woman with a functional family and a heist against an unhelpful imperialist man that goes surprisingly well and they get away on a tiny motorcycle that ends on a profile shot that whip pans into typewritten credits.
HEY GUYS THIS IS THE BEST HONEST TRAILER . GREAT ONE .
OMG this trailer was HILARIOUS
You guys are well dressed. Good job!
Oh and the honest trailer too. :)
Paul Thomas Anderson next!
11:44 BG guitar sounds like Save Tonight
Personally i like Fantastic Mr.Fox the best, it's an amazing film.
This format is perfect! It opens up a whole world of films that are either too good or too funny to riff on their own. Please do Scorsese w/ a Jon Bailey De Niro V.O.
Wes Anderson graduated from the University of Texas. I believe that's where he met Owen Wilson, also an alum of UT. The motto of Austin is "Keep Austin Weird", so Wes probably fit in there quite well!
I’d like to see Wes Anderson’s house
ConRon it’s probably symmetrical.
He has a ping pong table in the middle, and everything is symmetrical :P
Moonrise Kingdom and Royal Tennenbaums are in my top 5, the former is just so heartwarming and the later with the devastating mirror scene. Luke Wilson has never had as much dramatic effect as in that scene.
My favorite "Starring" section ever!
The grand Budapest hotel is in my top 5 favorite movies, makes me love movies
moonrise kingdom is my fav...maybe because it is so soothing
I can't be the only one who now wants a Honest Trailer for every Tarantino movie.
This thumbnail is my favorite thing ever!
suggestion: every Christopher Nolan movie
Your best work.
Where is that Terry Gilliam Honest Trailer?
I read a story about Spike Jonz ages ago in which the writer claimed that while he was talking to Jonz, a much larger guy tried to beat him up and Jonz ended up destroying him.
You boys would have a field day on Tim Burton!! Can’t wait to see the Johnny Depp jokes!
Moonrise Kingdom is his masterpiece, but Life Aquatic is a close close 2nd. Both are wonderful and made me love Mr. Anderson in a major way.
One of the funniest in recent memory
You could do a Kevin Smith honest trailer because you could literally have him come help you and he'd be like "I always do this, you guys should include this"
Good job you guys x'D
This was great.
“Hollywood’s most special little boy”
One of my favorite honest trailers to date. Do Scorsese and Tarantino and Sofia Coppola?
"Literal white noise."
EXACTLY.
Spencer Gilbert really looks like the Joker when he smiles for real.
Edgar Wright and Tarantino are the obvious choices to do next
We NEED to see a Wes Anderson Book of Henry.
His Henry wouldn't have had to leave a notebook for his mom, the target would have tripped the most insane Rub Goldbergian series of devices and been killed 2 weeks after it's initial tripping by a falling Underwood Typewriter that had a forged suicide note set to complete upon the final punctuation mark. Or some such thing.
Even though I think HISHE already did a tremendous job with this movie and will be hard to top, I'm so looking forward for next week's Honest Trailer! I'd love to see your take on this...
watching this while waiting for The Last Jedi. it should be up. aaaany moment now.
The voice from this trailer is the voice that appeared in the first few Honest Trailers?
So his motifs are basically everything removed from other modern movies: smoking, realistic punches in the face, whip pans (even Edgar Wright is stopping using them), killing animals, handwriting-typing-taping, Wilson brothers, etc.
Flora Posteschild wes anderson just love old movie making
Please please please please do Michael Bay or M Night Shyamalan
Michael Bay is low hanging fruit.
They've already done all five transformers flicks, do not subject them to that kind of pain again!
Even low hanging fruit must be plucked
I need them to talk about Pain & Gain and Pearl Harbor in the same video
Geoff Kerbis I think they had enough of Michael bay
There is a scene from Michael Mann's Heat, that Wes put into his movie Rushmore. Can you find it?
Didn't think so fucks
But how can I watch the trailer first if there isn’t any lol
now want to see Wes Anderson's Batman
So you're saying Wes Anderson was a hipster before it was cool?
When was being a hipster ever cool?
🤣
Said it b4 ill say it again honest trailers needs to do a Kevin smith movie or a retrospective of his films
Hell maybe even get him in on it
Even if its just covering the View Askew films....would be great!
20:38 - Dan is hilarious !
Now you have to make a Trailer like this for every Quentin Tarantino movie!
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Good Job. I agreed with almost everything. As i acknowledge that the classic "killing animals / serial killer's childhood" joke is humorous and a well that you guys seemed to enjoy revisiting...I would argue that any time an animal does die, it quickly jumps to a character very eager to show how tough they are by saying they couldn't care less. Thus revealing how much they really do care. (like Steve Zissou's tabby) I haven't had the pleasure or the employment to recently revisit all of the films but i believe most of the animal deaths are met this way, except for Jeff Goldblum's cat but that was just hilarious and maybe done just for the payoff of him holding up a bag of dead cat at Dafoe in disgust. And to even suggest Buckley's death didn't have significance and didn't directly lead to almost all of the Tenenbaums finally moving on and mending their relationships is just silly. His passing was just as vital to the end of that Oscar nominated script as Black track suits and Sir Van Morrison.
My ranking of favorites
1. Bottle Rocket
2. Rushmore
3. Royal Tenenbaums
4. Life Aquatic
5. Darjeeling Limited
6. Grand Budapest Hotel
Did not see
Fantastic Mr Fox.
Moonrise Kingdom.
1: Bergman (100 Year Anniversary)
2: David Lynch
3: Martin Scorses (with emphasis on the non-crime films)
4: Charlie Kaufman (before the Netflix film)
5: James Gray (Before Ad Astra)
Henry G Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze
Do you really want to make them marathon Lynch ? Other than the fact he’s one of the few filmmakers capable of dread to the point of creeping viewers out have you even seen “Rabbits” you can’t ask someone to explain that