Wes Anderson's newest 'The Phoenician Scheme' trailer is released

 


I've been waiting for this trailer. Wes Anderson announced about 2 weeks ago that the trailer for 'The Phoenician Scheme' would be released last week. It wasn't. I don't know why. Maybe they were waiting for it to premiere at CinemaCon before it was publicly released or maybe there were some technical difficulties like 'One Battle After Another' seemingly faced.

With regards to the trailer, I think it's a bit messy. Obviously I shouldn't be judging the film based off of the trailer (which I'm not doing), but I do hope this trailer is not reflecting how the actual film will be. It seems that the trailer reveals quite a lot regarding the plot compared to other Wes Anderson's trailers. That's ok because I'm still interested and I don't feel spoiled.

Benicio del Toro is the leading actor and this film does look more in line with 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' than with 'The French Dispatch' and "Asteroid City.' This may be good news to a lot of Anderson's fans but I particularly liked 'Asteroid City' and loved the direction he was stepping in. It seems like he is stepping back (maybe a good thing?) to his usual films.

I think this film looks like an adventure film with quite a lot of action in it. Maybe it will have even more action than 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' 

Oh, and also, this time Robert Yeoman will not be the cinematographer and he has been replaced with Bruno Delbonnel. Wes Anderson's visual style seems to still exist so I guess it didn't make much of a difference. The original score in the film is not particularly interesting me even though it is still Alexandre Desplat who made an amazing score in 'The French Dispatch.'

I'm excited and this film will probably go to Cannes judging by the limited release date of May 30th and wide release date of June 6th. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sorry, Gunn: But That's Not How You End a Good Show - "Peacemaker" Season 2 Spoiler Review

Image
 "Peacemaker" season 2 is the highly anticipated follow up to "Superman" and the third project of the DCU. I'm going to get into spoilers in this review so please keep that in mind.  To begin, I think what James Gunn did here with how he slightly changed season 1 in order to make it work in the DCU makes sense. Changing the Justice League in season 1 to be the Justice Gang instead. And then changing some other stuff so that season 2 makes sense was a good idea. This season is mostly about John Cena's character, not Peacemaker, but Christopher Smith discovering a door that takes him to a universe where his father and his brother are still alive. And they're nice to him! So he wants to stay there because he thinks it's the "best universe ever." Now, that plot alone is brilliant. It really allows the show to explore Smith's psyche and his desire to belong and be loved. This ideal universe also has Emilia Harcourt that actually expresses he...
Read more

"One battle after another" spoiler-free review

Image
 The newest Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Everyone says it's a masterpiece but is it true? I wasn't originally going to write this review but I just had to since everyone was talking about it. "One battle after another" is pretty good. I think the best part of this movie is its craft. The camera work is done so confidently that shows that PTA is now a master of directing. There are multiple long scenes that just carry on with such energy. The camera does a lot. The fact that it was shot on VISTAVISION does help too. The cinematography in the desert definitely gives a lot of neo-western vibes similar to that of "No country for old men." Extremely well shot film. The film does feel like we are moving from following different characters. Maybe this is a bit too messy for me. The film has too many characters and can't juggle them that well. They come and go and sometimes you wish they lasted a little longer. If I had to choose a main character, I would say thi...
Read more

4th annual Dumpling Awards (2024 movies)

Image
(Still from 'The Brutalist') I used to do an annual awarding system every year for the best films I've seen that year. I used to do it as soon as the year ended around January or February. But I found that there were still many films that I couldn't see by that point. Therefore, recently I've changed to doing it during the summer. I have done this 3 years now and this is the 4th annual Dumpling awards that covers films of 2024 (all eligible films listed here ). I take similar categories as the Oscars and give my nominations and winners completely based off of my opinion. However, I do not follow the same set of rules as the Academy. If you would like to see the rules set for this version of the Oscars, please take a look at this article . The categories will be written in big letters and underlined. The nominees will be listed out in bullet points. Then the Winner will be in bold and an asterisk(*) will be next to them. Best Ensemble Anora* Challengers His Three Dau...
Read more