FILMS THAT INSPIRE ME

I'd like start off by showing clips or trailers of films that inspire me creativley.

The films i would like bring to your attention are pretty much anything by Wes Anderson. Starting off with his most recent work 'The Darjeeling Limited' of which i was lucky enough to see a previewed screening of at the '21st Leeds International Film Festival' last year.


'The Darjeeling limited' film trailer,



The main story that runs throughout this film is the relationship between 3 brothers on the road to enlightenment and finding their mother which they have not seen since their fathers death. The beauty of Wes Andersons films is how without even realising you can very easily identify with all the charachters despite their larger than life and very idealised personas. Saying that all his films are done with incredible subtlety and integrity. For instance, it took a second viewing of this film to realise the similarities of the relationship between the brothers on screen and that of mine with my brothers.
Another one of Wes' films which inspires me is 'Rushmore'

'Rushmore' film trailer,



Rushmore out of all of Wes' films best demonstrates his talents as a film maker. He manages to blend all the key elements of a good film seemlesly. It's strange yet beautiful, funny yet sad, challenging yet simple and all of these elements come together in a very stylish and almost photographic manor. One thing i particularly like is how he makes what could be quite a 'geekish' film and turn into something undenyably cool with. Stylisticaly every shot is like a very well thought through photograph with amazing colour and vibrancy.

Here are some examples of that in the form of film stills from 'the Darjeeling Limited'.





Another thing i'd like to mention is the soundtrack which is amazing as it is in all his films. I'm pretty sure a lot of his scenes would have been built around the music not the narative, i think this helps the flow of his films.
But! the main reason his films are so good is because 'Bill Murray' is in pretty much all of them, and lets face it 'Bill Murray' is one of the coolest men alive!


Carrying on with the 'Bill Murray' theme, he just happens to co-star in this short film from the collection of short films called 'Coffee & Cigarettes' in which he stars opposite the 'RZA' and the 'GZA' of the 'Wu Tang Clan'. All the short films were directed by 'Jim Jarmusch' and had no real narrative just a subject and the rest was adlibbed. Most scenes have very famous people in them either from tv, film or the music industry, the main attraction of it is the throwing together of people you wouldn't expect to see together. This is best demonstrated by the forementioned scene with 'Bill Murray', 'RZA' and 'GZA'. 'Bill Murray' a very well spoken white american actor and two members of the Hip Hop act 'Wu Tang Clan'. I think it demonstrates very well how two types of people from completely different cultures at the top their games and with a whole lot of charisma can work very well together.


Here is that scene.

'DELERIUM' feat; 'Bill Murray' 'RZA' & 'GZA'



GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS SCENE:

1: The shots of the coffee table from above.
2: The Cast.
3: The roll reversal, "your both trouble makers" RZA & GZA actualy more inteligent.