# Things, people and places that have inherent Wes Anderson implications to me: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751 "2018-04-03T20:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/1 "2018-04-03T20:13:08Z")
By far my favorite contemporary director, who I think is an unmatched genius of creating a uniquely coherent body of work/immersive “world-building”: Tweed or checkered cloth with stitches Colorful things like bright yellow raincoats or boots Anything involving gardens, garden sheds, tools, backyards People with quirky interests in weird vintage machines [guilty] Having beards and glasses but not in a hipster way, rather an almost Edwardian (not Victorian, mind you) way [guilty] Situations that are “comedies of manners” revolving around some obscure or niche interest or objective [guilty, in many social interactions, especially feels that way if I’m stoned] Woodland creatures Weird John Irving-esque familial situations [guilty, but not in a bad way] Occasional or sometimes huge dashes of what could be broadly called “the way Sgt. Pepper’s album cover looks” What else am I missing? Any other big Wes Anderson fans here? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/2 "2018-04-03T20:18:28Z")
I was a passenger in a friend’s car as he was speeding through one of the local woodland/park areas, and he had classical music on the radio. I was looking out the window and thought “I feel like I’m in the opening of a Wes Anderson film.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/3 "2018-04-03T20:40:13Z")
[You’d love the subreddit Accidental Wes Anderson.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/) ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/4 "2018-04-03T21:06:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [You’d love the subreddit Accidental Wes Anderson.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/) Oh my God. I’m going to post so much there, they might think I’m self-promoting my own movie based on my life or something. There’s seriously SO much around me that catches my eye this way. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/5 "2018-04-03T22:41:24Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I was a passenger in a friend’s car as he was speeding through one of the local woodland/park areas, and he had classical music on the radio. I was looking out the window and thought “I feel like I’m in the opening of a Wes Anderson film.” Yeah, ‘the music’ belongs on the OP list. Not just classical; he also uses pop-music themes in an idiosyncratic way–perhaps nowhere as characteristically as in _Fantastic Mr. Fox_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/6 "2018-04-03T22:54:10Z")
[“Tricked by leprechauns AGAIN!”](http://nonadventures.com/2016/03/12/wes-end-girls/) ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/7 "2018-04-03T23:20:06Z")
Bear with me, I’m going somewhere with this… I hated Fantastic Mr Fox so very, very much. I couldn’t work out whether angry or sad was winning at any point, but I was overwhelmed by them both. I’m getting quite annoyed just thinking about it. It’s about as close as I’ve come to thinking “No. It’s NOT a matter of taste; anybody who likes this is WRONG and needs to learn why.” I binned it. There was a total and utter failure to grasp the charm of the main character - he was tiresome and sort of selfishly hapless rather than…well…fantastic - and it clearly took a sheer delight in its own spectacle, sound, wordplay (etc.) to a degree which completely swamped the story; appallingly arrogant artistic self-indulgence. It was undoubtedly distinctive and richly constructed, but seemed horribly misjudged. Maybe…maybe like a very well made gravy which, although made with veal stock _and_ rhubarb, could nevertheless have been a genius creation…but was served over an apple pie. But I _like_ gravy. Even unusual gravy. What should I have served this gravy with?! What has Wes Anderson done which might be worth a look to someone who - despite _all_ that - is prepared to give him another try? ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-and-places-that-have-inherent-wes-anderson-implications-to-me/811751/8 "2018-04-03T23:27:45Z")
You might like _Moonrise Kingdom,_ it’s my favorite of all his movies. There’s just something about the whole remote-location, old-fashioned-outdoorsman, scouting-themed setting that just kills me, I have a good friend who lives way out on the coast of Nova Scotia near Cape Breton, and I swear to God there are places and people just like that there. I just submitted [two](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/comments/89jsy3/this_1989_book_about_freshwater_fishing/) new [entries](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/comments/89jw6y/this_picture_of_my_friend_nate_which_was_shot_on/?st=jfkamr2a&sh=169d9b18) on that Accidental Wes Anderson reddit, by the way. (Jesus H. Christ, downvoted on the first one already. Dude, do you even Wes Anderson?)