AD Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 One of the strangest reads I've had in a long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I agree; mainly because Steely Dan managed to "patent" song lyrics.[color:purple]Until just now, I thought that was impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I didn't know it was possible but I now have less respect for Steely Dan then I did before.What arogant, pompous deuchebags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Whether it matters or not, I like Steely Dan's music; very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Jackson Brown is going to live to be older than both Casey Kasem and Bob Barker combined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Open letter to Luke Wilson this is all a hilarious in-joke, i believesteely 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Open letter to Luke Wilson this is all a hilarious in-joke, i believesteely 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 rocketIt's totally tongue-in-cheek. I even recall reading Luke Wilson's response to the letter, which was itself completely amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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