Assignment 17: Lena Ilagan

One of my favorite directors is Wes Anderson.  The color, the feel, and the cinematography of all of his films are all absolutely spectacular.  Anderson manages to create visual masterpieces out of spectacular and crazy stories, all the while incorporating iconic sounds and music.  Given the prompt of this blog, I eagerly binged two of my favorite Wes Anderson films: Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.  Both movies are stunning in their cinematography, and entertaining in every way possible.
Fantastic Mr. Fox, an adaptation of the Roald Dahl book of the same name, offers more than an eccentric and hilarious plot; the film gives its viewers a visual feast of stop-motion animation.  Each of the hand-crafted scenes incorporates color into the mood, with earthy, orange, and reddish tones eliciting homey, comfortable feeling, and harsh, grey, and white ones representing the tyrannical rule of the three villains.  The color is an integral part to the film, just as its plot.
Just as Fantastic Mr. Fox offers viewers a sumptuous feast of color, as does the Grand Budapest Hotel.  The plot of the film is even more outlandish and ridiculous as Fantastic Mr. Fox, and also incorporates color into its mood.  Whereas Mr. Fox stuck to two basic color schemes, the Grand Budapest Hotel expanded their dimension, dipping into bright, carnival colors.  The electric purples and bright golds of the film all in conjunction with the innumerable amount of colors all create an atmosphere of disbelief and silliness, which adds to the humorous plot of the film.