Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Wes Anderson is known for his distinct style as he presents meticulously crafted scenes utilizing pastel color palettes, geometric framing and style and architecture that appears to be from a bygone time or an exotic place. These touches create an aesthetic that viscerally appeals to me unlike any other director.
His characters also always underplay their emotions which is something people from…
Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Wes Anderson is known for his distinct style as he presents meticulously crafted scenes utilizing pastel color palettes, geometric framing and style and architecture that appears to be from a bygone time or an exotic place. These touches create an aesthetic that viscerally appeals to me unlike any other director.
His characters also always underplay their emotions which is something people from my culture often do, especially of my sex and of my own personality type. For me, this only serves to heighten the power of certain scenes or lines of dialogue where emotions are inevitably let out in some climatic moment.
Although Anderson's characters are quirky and idiosyncratic, they always possess a self-assuredness that thrusts them through the particular world in which they inhabit. This confidence is depicted as both a strength and a weakness. It is often seen as a strength as other characters are drawn to the self-assured character and compelled to grow as a result.
On the flip side, the self-assured characters possess a pride that allows them to act without questioning themselves which invariably leads them to hurt others around them. They grow when the characters around them call them out on these flaws.
These character dynamics often take place within a family unit as Anderson seems to understand that everyone needs people in their lives to be close to, to rub against, as required for personal growth which is vital for anyone to realize lest they become stagnant, comfortable with or ignorant of their own weaknesses.
Other directors I have ranked:
JJ Abrams | PT Anderson | Judd Apatow | Darren Aronofsky | Ari Aster | Sean Baker | Bong Joon-ho | Jane Campion | Charlie Chaplin | Damien Chazelle | Coen Brothers | Sofia Coppola | Cameron Crowe | Andrew Dominik | Robert Eggers | David Fincher | Alex Garland | Greta Gerwig | Todd Haynes | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | Jim Jarmusch | Rian Johnson | Spike Jonze | Satoshi Kon | Stanley Kubrick | Sergio Leone | Richard Linklater | George Lucas | David Lynch | Martin McDonagh | Steve McQueen | Sam Mendes | Nancy Meyers | Hayao Miyazaki | Jeff Nichols | Christopher Nolan | Alexander Payne | Sarah Polley | Lynn Ramsay | Céline Sciamma | Ben Stiller | Quentin Tarantino | Andrei Tarkovsky | Taika Waititi | Edgar Wright | Chloé Zhao
