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Director/Writer Wes Anderson on the set of "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004).
Whether it is hubris, indolence, or even a stroke of genius by Wes Anderson part, his latest film soon to hit theaters was directed in the most eccentric manner seen thus far in the directorial world of filmmaking. It appears that Wes Anderson's latest feature, Fantastic Mr. Fox (soon to hit theaters November 25th 2009) was directed via e-mail. According to Chris Lee from the LA Times, "that choice was made all but inevitable, however, by the Oscar nominee's unorthodox decision to hole up in Paris for most of the shoot's one-year duration while principal photography commenced across the English Channel at London's venerable Three Mills Studios. He wasn't working on another project, and nothing Paris-centric demanded he be there; Anderson simply "didn't want to be at Three Mills Studios for two years.""
But this of course does not sit well with the crew that worked tirelessly on the film to the demands of an absent director. “It's not in the least bit normal," director of photography Tristan Oliver observed at the production's East London set last spring, when production on "Mr. Fox" was about three-quarters complete. Tristan Oliver subtly hinting at Anderson possibly being a sociopath because of the turmoil the crew went through to finish this film because Anderson literally phoning it in. This ignorance of stop-motion filmmaking exacerbated the crew to no end. But to his defense, Wes Anderson claimed he didn’t want to be an overly-demanding director and wanted to approach the film in such a way that when he first saw the film completed, it wouldn’t have lost its magic by completion.
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