🎥 Wes Anderson 🎬 Asteroid City (2023)
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I’ve been watching theories and explanations of ‘Asteroid City’ and in my opinion the views that people have are completely wrong, so I’m going to explain the meaning of it, or what the meaning is in my perception.
Now, I’ll start off with the fact that one person claimed that Wes Anderson films have little meaning and value aesthetics above the story, which he’s tried to counteract by making a purposefully meaningless story in Asteroid.
No. Just no.
Every Wes Anderson film, as I see it, is used to display a certain type of relationship. The Grand Budapest Hotel shows the friendship between the Mr Gustave and Zero. The Darjeeling limited shows the relationship of the three brothers. Moonrise kingdom shows the relationship of the two children in their young love, I could go on with every film but you get the point.
The person was correct that yes, this film is slightly different to the others, it doesn’t display the relationship between people as they’re together, it more shows how relationships are everlasting through feelings of grief. Particularly the grief of the actors for the playwright, which is represented through their characters.
It’s true that the film has a sense of meaningless to it, but this is used to display the meaningless feel of death, how no one can comprehend the incomprehensible. They try to understand the alien, which even we don’t know anything about and they never can, much like how us as humans will never truly understand grief.
The meaningless is reflected through the character of Augie (played by Jason Schwartzman) who tells the director that he still doesn’t understand the play. It is no coincidence that this is also the person who had a relationship with the playwright, who died. These two are interlinked because much like the way that he doesn’t understand the okay, he doesn’t understand the grief that he’s feeling.
What I’m trying to say is that Wes Anderson has clearly thought out his films thoroughly and filled them with meaning and to say that every film is entirely meaningless is completely wrong. Rant over.
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I am just saying that so far a detail that people have brushed over in Asteroid City is that Schubert knew Jones and personally sent him to Conrad for the role. Gave him money and everything for them to meet. He probably told Jones what ice cream Conrad likes. Which their (Conrad and Jones) meeting and relationship been noted as "lore" for the play, which means that Schubert inadvertently set the two up
I genuinely like to believe that the two of them are friends and were somewhat close. That's why Schubert got on his knees to be level with Jones to reassure him. His body language and expression hints at them being comfortable. I have done the exact same thing to my friends who are upset
And during the sleep study, it is implied that Schubert and Conrad are seemingly friends outside of working together in the past. Especially by how they randomly hold hands and the shoulder hold (same could be applied to Saltzburg tbh we all know the Hollywood assholes are all friends). Jones in the back of the room, covering his face and watching, could be interpreted as him coming along to support his (at that point and probably) boyfriend and to see his good friend
Which leads into how I believe in the theory of Conrad's death not being an accident, but Conrad's own doing. And that I like to think that Jones spent days crying to Schubert
Anyways.
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Who do you think could play a good live action Silco?
I hope Arcane never gets a LA anything - half its magic is the animation by Studio Fortiche.
If they ever did a cinematic type version though, I think I'd want it to be Adrian Brody.
He's got the face, the voice and the mannerisms. His eyes are super expressive and sensitive-looking though... but he's also a fabulous enough performer that he can pull off a fiendish rage-filled stare of icewater if necessary.
Privately, I also wouldn't mind a Mads Mikkelsen Silco, simply because he's got experience playing the villainous types. Mads is a bit too burly for our favorite stick-man tho...
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