i didn't think the french dispatch was that good but i dunno about all that stuff about the fascioid carceral state and so on
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come on man
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You're the one who compared Anderson to Ross Perot! Like I said, it's more Baden-Powell than Himmler. It's interesting to think about what saves it from actual fascism. I'd say self-aware puckishness (camp) & foregrounding of artifice.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel is pretty darn anti fascist imo
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"Die of the Prussian Grippe..."
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Anderson likes precision and symmetry, for their own sake, so of course he's attracted to militarism and coercive institutions: very orderly! But he also likes displaying comic unruliness against the background of that institutional order (or used to; cf. Rushmore, Tenenbaums)
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(and for what it's worth I agree with John, The French Dispatch was a bad movie – maybe WA's worst – but not fascist)
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To be fair, so did Gene Roddenberry, and he was woke AF.
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I think he likes his uniforms because they go with his uniform aesthetic.
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ppl don't factor in enough that the reporter in the student uprising seq. is a classic nyr centrist. she also sleeps with her source, gets jealous and condescending to his gf, and then portrays *them* as the childish ones in her story. classic depiction ≠ endorsement moment.
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But her POV finds an objective correlative in the way the movie also portrays protesters and (more damningly) police. I mean, French cops in the 1960s were not cute.
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