Typography + Wes Anderson = I need to get a REAL hobby
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I thought I was a weirdo for noticing how my favorite director, Wes Anderson, uses Futura so well all the time. And I never get tired of it. You might.
Then some rad dude wrote a whole blog post about Futura in The Royal Tenenbaums, with screen grabs from the DVD. It’s worth the read, if only to convince you that WA is one of those auteurs for whom nothing is too small not to notice.
BONUS POINTS if you can, in the comments, share how and when you saw the Royal Tenenbaums. I saw it 3 times in the theaters, all at the Laemmle in Pasadena, twice I paid, once I cried. It’s the scene with Chaz and Royal in the ambulance where A. Baldwin is narrating and all that shit. Gets me where it counts.
I saw it with my HS boyfriend and we were the only two laughing the whole time. People walked out!!
The first time I saw it, I was drunk on red wine in Nick’s living room. I fell asleep two-thirds of the way through.
The second time I saw it, I was sober in Nick’s living room, and I realized just how it was. I’ve seen it at least twenty times since then, and I think it gets better and better with every viewing.
I don’t remember ever watching this movie the whole way through start to finish. I’m sure I have, but it still feels fragmented.
But, I did tear up at the end when Ben Stiller says, “I’ve had a really tough year,” even though Stiller’s character does NOT cry. Him not crying is what makes me want to cry.
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