介绍:
After watching "Grand Budapest Hotel", I find myself deeply obsessed with Wes Anderson films, which are endowed with a unique style, quite different from the ordinary stock that average Hollywood filmmakers can offer. This week, I'd like to introduce one of his previous works.
The 2009 "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is Anderson's first adapted film; it is based on the work of Roald Dahl, who also wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Anderson's story is about a series of adventures involving a family of foxes, as they test their wits and strength against the cunning and spite of three mean farmers. All the trouble is caused by the father who can't bear the tedium of being an ordinary newspaper columnist, but dreams of returning to his pre-marital life of stealing birds as a wild animal.
Having acquired Roald Dahl's blessing for his script, Wes Anderson set out to shoot his first animated feature using the stop motion technique. A total of 535 different models were brought to life under Tristan Oliver's Nikon D3 lenses, and made ever more exuberant by the magical editing and warm coloring which are typical of Anderson's movies.
But stop motion was not the only challenge that the director has placed in front of his crew and himself. To push the limits further, Anderson decided that they should do the recording outside the studio. So the stellar cast including George Clooney and Meryl Streep all went to a forest, an attic and a stable to record their voices. It is easy to tell from the spontaneity in their voices that they had a great time making the film.
Family seems to be a recurrent topic in Anderson's films. In this piece, the fantastic Mr. Fox not only needs to find a way to survive his human adversaries, but also struggles to reassure the missus and to get along with a rebellious son, as well as a highly gifted nephew. George Clooney struck me as a brilliant father figure material with his role in the 2013 film "The Descendants", his voice in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is immediately recognizable and also resonant with the similar fatherly charm.
But there is yet another side to the director of "The Monuments Men". Clooney's directorial effort may have ended up with a debacle, but it was enough to reveal the strong sense of humor of the triple Golden Globe winner.
George Clooney's multi-layered personality and voice constitute the perfect demonstration of the type of wry humor in Wes Anderson's film: only his voice could remedy the harm of an irony, and scale it down to just the right amount that Anderson needed.
And last but not the least, a few words for composer Alexandre Desplat. His works totally agrees with the emotions in the movie. I've been looping his original sound track as I write this review, and listening to the score has made the writing process much more enjoyable.
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