Ahead of Asteroid City (and Father's Day), we tackle the many bad dads of Anderson's filmography
Clockwise from top left: Gene Hackman inThe Life Aquatic With Steve ZissouYou can’t trust a dad in a Wes Anderson movie.
Sure, there are a few exceptions: Bert Fischer, played with quiet affability by Seymour Cassel in Anderson’s second film,, is as good a father as an aspiring playwright and polymath could ever hope to have, doling out haircuts and gentle advice in equal measure for his son Max and his odd adult friend Herman. But for the most part, the man who wrote the line “I hate fathers, and I never wanted to be one” has stuck to his bad dad guns, across 11 films and counting.
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