Open Letter from Steely Dan to Wes Anderson

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One of the strangest reads I've had in a long time

[StoneMtn]

I agree; mainly because Steely Dan managed to "patent" song lyrics.

[color:purple]Until just now, I thought that was impossible.

[djmelbatoast]

I didn't know it was possible but I now have less respect for Steely Dan then I did before.

What arogant, pompous deuchebags.

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you didn't take that as total, tongue-in-cheek hilarity?

that was the most hilarious thing i've read in a long time. good for them i say.

[djmelbatoast]

I'm not sure how tounge in cheek it was.

They just tell the guy how bad his movies are and how much better they could be if he tapped into thier unbelievable talent.

They might be joking, but even if they are what I said above still applies.

Personally, I like all of Anderson's movies.

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You began, spectacularly enough, with the excellent "Bottle Rocket", a film we consider to be your finest work to date. No doubt others would agree that the striking originality of your premise and vision was most effective in this seminal work. Subsequent films - "Rushmore", "The Royal Tenenbaums", "The Life Aquatic" - have been good fun but somewhat disappointing - perhaps increasingly so. These follow-ups have all concerned themselves with the theme we like to call "the enervated family of origin"©, from which springs diverse subplots also largely concerned with the failure to fulfill early promise. Again, each film increasingly relies on eccentric visual detail, period wardrobe, idiosyncratic and overwrought set design, and music supervision that leans heavily on somewhat obscure 60's "British Invasion" tracks a-jangle with twelve-string guitars, harpsichords and mandolins. The company of players, while excellent, retains pretty much the same tone and function from film to film. Indeed, you must be aware that your career as an auteur is mirrored in the lives of your beloved characters as they struggle in vain to duplicate early glories.

sounds like a pretty good review and critique.

i hate steely dan as much as everyone else (hehe), this is their only work I like, just because of its absurdity and humour.

i love wes anderson's work for the record, didn't post this to slag anything he's done.

[StoneMtn]

Whether it matters or not, I like Steely Dan's music; very much.

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They just tell the guy how bad his movies are and how much better they could be if he tapped into thier unbelievable talent.

That's how you sell stuff. eg. "Look at how rusty your car is, I think you should trade it in and get this brand new red Toyota I have here. It has better mileage, good brakes, leather interior etc."

Anyway, that was funny.

[paisley]

Jackson Brown is going to live to be older than both Casey Kasem and Bob Barker combined

[Northern Wish]

Don't they have some beef with Anderson from the Bottle Rocket film?

Something to do with his usage of their music without crediting or paying them for it?

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Open letter to Luke Wilson

this is all a hilarious in-joke, i believe

steely dan had a (what i believe) fake beef with owen wilson over the movie 'you me and dupree.' but nothing i could find about bottle rocket

[SmoothedShredder]

[hamilton]

Open letter to Luke Wilson

this is all a hilarious in-joke, i believe

steely dan had a (what i believe) fake beef with owen wilson over the movie 'you me and dupree.' but nothing i could find about bottle rocket

It's totally tongue-in-cheek. I even recall reading Luke Wilson's response to the letter, which was itself completely amusing.