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Light spoilers forIsle of Dogsbelow.
Wes Andersonloves movies, and he doesnt care who knows it.
The other wasAkira Kurosawa, the single greatest filmmaker that Asia has ever produced.
(Sorry, Ozu fans, but the truth hurts sometimes.)
While Anderson didnt nick the plots schematic, he did sample liberally from the masters magnum opus.
The first comes from the early Kurosawa-Mifune collaborationDrunken Angel, and the second has been taken right fromSeven Samurai.
Wes Anderson fans, true to obsessive form, havealready assembledsome frame-against-frame comparisons using footage from the trailer.
Working in stop-motion allows Anderson an evocative sense of tactility that suits the sensuousness of the fog perfectly.
(It is, in many ways, a timely film.)
Every handpicked prop, every shade of red, all in their right place.
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