Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom opens May 25th and today four new charmingly glib featurettes are online, narrated by Bob Balaban (“Balaban” backwards is “Nabalab”). In each one, he introduces us to the Island of New Penzance (filmed in Rhode Island) and then shows some quick behind-the-scenes footage of each of the players — Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and the little wiener kids who play the Khaki Scouts. Mainly I’m posting it because it includes Shirtless Bill Murray holding a bottle of wine, and as you know, Shirtless Bill Murray is my spirit animal. Still, the rest of them are worth a watch, though I’ll admit, even as a Wes Anderson fan, the smoky French pop music was a little much. At the end of the last one, Wes Anderson even skips a rock across a pond for the kid actors. Sadly, he did not raise his hands above his head and shout “WHIMSY! I LIVE IT, MOTHERF*CKER!” Call it a missed opportunity.
Bill Murray
Bruce Willis
Edward Norton
Wes Anderson and his Wiener Kids
[via TheGuardian]
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Balaban backwards = Nabalab. Get your head out of B.Murr’s tits Mancini
Slightly off topic: recently watched The Life Aquatic again. That’s like the inverse of Bottle Rocket. Most Anderson fans seem to ignore it or think of it as a misfire, but it’s one of my favorite films of his.
Do all the interns get glocks?
/Fanboy Dingus = Fandingus
It’s one of the finest films ever made. Sheer brilliance in every way.
What!? Life Aquatic is Anderson’s best movie.
Yeah. It’s got like a 50% RT. I mean, who cares really, but it was the first movie of his to be critically panned, but I loved it. I think it’s his most emotionally resonant flick.
“I wonder if it remembers me.”
Precious, but you can’t go full twee without Tilda Swinton and/or the little girl. My penor is disappoint.
Shirtless Bill Murray looks like a Shirtless Dilbert.