Wes Anderson talks to nschager about having a signature style that’s become a viral meme, the making of “Asteroid City,” and Bill Murray’s departure from the film.
She also gave me an explanation for this: “I’m just very into aliens right now.” I think because of, it’s just all space and things like that. So I wound up working in the right area, sort of…Was your daughter’s fandom one of the reasons you chose to try your hand at sci-fi withand didn’t know about any of that stuff back when we did the movie. That’s really recent.Asteroid City
That mixed with the idea of doing something… the name that was in our minds was Sam Shepard. We were thinking about something kind of Sam Shepard, out in the West somewhere. Then it swirled together and became this ’50s thing.There are a lot of ’50s desert-y movies—it’s kind of an American thing. I went back to some of those and saw quite a few I had never heard of before, and it was interesting. There’s a new kind of cinema that happens in the ’50s, with Cinemascope.
I think about how I want to stage a scene, and I might have some ideas about what we’re going to go for, for this particular movie, but that’s probably not the thing you’re talking about. You’re talking about the thing that’s the same, or at least is recognizable—which is to say, “I think I know who might have done this one” [laughs]. That is maybe something I’m in control of, but I’m not in control of what I want. I’m not in control of the way I’d like to do it.
Given the homogeneity of so much mainstream American cinema, does being unique pose a challenge, professionally speaking? Or is it still a benefit, since there’s only one you?
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