Wes Anderson is another great inspiration to me but is also himself heavily inspired by Buster Keaton – his characters acting with precise motives and movement, providing action sequences with a very simple physicality. The camera also acts in a flat world like Keaton’s features, movement being horizontal, vertical or towards/away from the camera. In doing so he creates a semi-hyper reality that is ultimately more appealing than the real world. Here we see two scenes that show Anderson’s style of movement, be it the movement of the camera whilst interacting with the world or a static shot where the action is provided by the characters.
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