Hello everyone!

Stop Motion has something special that I feel can't be described lightly, call it feeling that sense of seeing something unusual in the animations or those little imperfections that are impossible to hide due to the nature of the genre.

I haven't seen many films in this style, maybe the usual children's films that were shown on TV from time to time but certainly not one that took many of his ideas seriously and delivered a solid film in keeping with the style of what is becoming one of my favourite directors today.

Wes Anderson has style and no one can deny that, I don't know if it's his vision or that he has a very talented team behind him, it could be both but even in a feature film of such a particular style he is able to leave his essence in every single scene.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a movie that had been recommended to me by @richardalexis a few posts back and that I was holding off on because to be honest I wasn't really interested in the premise, a fox living in relative tranquility with his family who driven by his instincts gets involved in situations that put him in constant risk.

I just finished watching it and although I need a bit of time to digest it properly and place it in my mental rankings I think I had a great time while it was on.

There are two possible reasons for this

• I really like the way the director does his scenes in this and other films, that's one of my main reasons because the style is like nothing I've seen before in any other film.

• the film is a lot of fun to watch and they use stop motion in many ways to make it even funnier, his characters are also cool (like in Anderson's other films) and they make the funny moments more accentuated at least from my eye.

it's also funny that George Clooney plays Mr Fox, formerly a greedy chicken thief who over time made more and more elaborate heists and now the most exciting thing he has to do is read the morning paper.

drama of the film is a personal one and although there are a couple of action scenes we focus on Mr Fox trying to find himself again in the storm, we also see a lot of his son going on a similar journey to his father but one of discovery as he is pressured by a newly arrived cousin who is far more skilled than he is.

I will sound repetitive but I have to again put Anderson's imagery, his way of creating images, bringing his work to life and his unique personality as one of the driving forces behind this film and one of the main reasons why I sit through so many of his scenes.

Like the previous works I have seen from the director, I think it has some slow moments, there is a lot of reflection in some scenes and you can see that it is the author's intention that we pause for a moment from all the action.

but that kills the film for me a little bit.

It's only a couple of scenes and even so I think they can be very enjoyable if we go over the beauty of the composition, everything is taken care of to the extreme which in a film of this nature should give you some extra points.

Something weird is that in the film real animal hair was used to make the puppets of all the characters, according to Anderson it gave a sense of movement and imperfection to each scene but let's say he did it because the studio gave him money for that lol

I have to watch it again just for scenes like the first shot, I highly recommend it if you like stop motion and that kind of animation and I highly recommend it if you like anderson.

Thank you very much for reading all this

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¡Hola a todos!

El Stop Motion tiene algo especial que siento no puede ser descrito a la ligera, llamese sentir esa sensacion de ver inusual en las animaciones o esas pequeñas imperfecciones que son imposibles de ocultar debido a la naturaleza del genero.

No he visto muchas peliculas de este estilo, quiza las usuales infantiles que pasaban cada tanto en la TV pero ciertamente no una que se tomase en serio muchas de sus ideas y diese un film solido y acorde al estilo del que se esta convirtiendo en uno de mis directores actuales favoritos.

Wes Anderson tiene estilo y eso nadie se lo va a poder negar, no se si sea su vision o que tiene un equipo de trabajo muy talentoso detras, puede ser ambas pero incluso en un largometraje de un estilo tan particular es capaz de dejar su esencia en cada una de las escenas

Fantastic Mr. Fox es una pelicula que me habia recomendado @richardalexis algunos post atras y que estaba atrasando porque para serles sincero no me interesaba mucho la premisa, un zorro viviendo en relativa tranquilidad con su familia que impulsado por sus instintos se ve envuelto en situaciones que lo ponen en riesgo constantemente

Acabo de terminar de verla y aunque necesito un poco de tiempo para digerirla adecuadamente y ubicarla en mi rankin mental creo que la pase muy bien mientras estaba puesta

Puede deberse a dos cosas

• De verdad me gusta como el director hace sus escenas en esta y demas peliculas, es una de mis razones de peso porque el estilo es como no habia visto en otra pelicula

• la pelicula es muy divertida de ver y usan el stop motion de muchas maneras para hacerla incluso mas graciosa, sus personajes tambien son frios (como en las otras peliculas de Anderson) y hacen que los momentos comicos se acentuen al menos desde mi ojo

es gracioso tambien que George Clooney interprete a Mr Fox, anteriormente un avido ladron de pollos que con el tiempo hacia golpes mas y mas elaborados y ahora lo mas emocionante que tiene por hacer es leer el periodico de las mañanas

el drama de la pelicula es uno personal y aunque hay un par de escenas de accion nos enfocamos en Mr Fox tratando de encontrarse nuevamente en la tormenta, tambien vemos mucho a su hijo entrando en un viaje similar a su padre pero de descubrimiento al ser presionado por un primo recien llegado y mucho mas habil que el

Sonare repetitivo pero tengo que poner nuevamente a Anderson con su forma de crear imagenes, darle vida a su obra y una personalidad unica como uno de los motores de esta pelicula y de las razones principales por las que pase de muchas de sus escenas

Como las obras anteriores que he visto del director, creo que tiene momentos algo lentos, si que hay mucha reflexion en algunas escenas y se nota que es intencion del autor que pausemos un momento de toda la accion

pero eso mata un poco la pelicula para mi

Son solo un par de escenas y aun asi creo que pueden llegar a ser muy disfrutables si repasamos lo bello de la composicion, todo esta cuidado al extremo lo cual en una pelicula de estas caracteristicas te deberia dar algunos puntos extra

Algo raro es que en la pelicula se uso pelo real de animales para hacer las marionetas de todos los personajes , segun Anderson le daba una sensacion de movimiento e imperfeccion a cada escena pero digamos que lo hizo porque el estudio le dio dinero para eso lol

Me la tengo que ver otra vez solo por escenas como las del primer golpe, la recomiendo ampliamente si te gusta el stop motion y ese tipo de animacion y la super recomiendo si te gusta anderson

Muchas gracias por leer todo esto