I wonder how many of those he has done without realizing it, as well as those he's having fun reusing.

I've always gravitated toward certain compositions in my design work—he certainly loves his top-downs and tracking shots, just as Kubrick loves his one-point perspectives.
https://vimeo.com/48425421

Wouldn't it be "auto-homage" if he's plagiarizing himself like this?

@2 - Good point. To be Meta, I think he would have to know that we knew that he knew he as doing it on purpose.

It's no so much plagiarism but that animations have succumbed to the High Style of filmmaking that the Coen brothers introduced back in Raising Arizona, and from which hi-brow indie films have never recovered.

It's a kind of loud, visually stylish, yet supremely static motif that appeals to SIFF filmgoers though, in my view, it controverts everything that is good or fascinating in a moving picture. These are more like Time-Life coffee table books brought to life, wide-angle landscapes and cuts to the tonsils of kids screaming...but for a long time and in one place, all on screen for far too long.

Here's my Netflix review of The Darjeeling Limited by the way...

I know I should love Wes Anderson (this sites pattern matching would probably tell me so), but I have a hard time with his films. Its like he puts in all this cool stuff that should excite my coolness buttons, but over all it doesn't. Maybe its Owen Wilson, who I guess is playing Woody Allen in Wes Anderson's cosmology. Owen Wilson is like butter. A pat of butter on a potato is delicious. But eating a stick of butter by itself is horrid. That said, Darjeeling is the best of the bunch because it takes the entire country of India and its people to dilute the combination of Andersons cloyingness and Wilson's irrepressible nature into digestible proportions. Still, I cant help but think that Anderson is an artist who read and re-read all of Salingers work and said I want to do that and then proceeded to cast his own version of the Glass family on screen without attribution.

People who really like movies need to get a life.

I don't really mean that, I'm not Dan Savage. Do whatever what you want to do. Advice is so overrated.

#5

And Internet stalking is so much more fun for you.

But maybe you'll expire before the tech catches up...there's always that possibility.