With a spontaneous idea to try and watch all of Wes Anderson's movies by the time his latest one comes out next week, I started with his first one, a short called "Bottle Rocket." It was black and white, 13 minutes, and hardly had any of the trademark stylization of what he has become famous for since. But hey, it was 1992, I think he and fellow writer Owen Wilson just decided to do this without worrying about quality, and maybe it was a project left over from their days at UT-Austin, I don't know.
The movie itself wasn't really to my liking. Almost pointless, but it was cool to see Wilson and his brother Luke do some acting before they both made a career out of it. It had a lot of that dialogue-heavy thing those early 90's movies had; Tarantino may be most famous for that kind of writing. There was a basic plot about a robbery, but the focus of the movie was on these two guys kind of being low-lifes with positive outlooks.
I wonder if the feature-length version of this introduces some of that famous Anderson style? We'll find out soon.
The movie itself wasn't really to my liking. Almost pointless, but it was cool to see Wilson and his brother Luke do some acting before they both made a career out of it. It had a lot of that dialogue-heavy thing those early 90's movies had; Tarantino may be most famous for that kind of writing. There was a basic plot about a robbery, but the focus of the movie was on these two guys kind of being low-lifes with positive outlooks.
I wonder if the feature-length version of this introduces some of that famous Anderson style? We'll find out soon.