captainllama
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Post by captainllama on Feb 28, 2006 12:26:52 GMT -5
I was looking through my British Vogue from January for the 100th time and this time decided to read (or skim over) the articles. I left out the "fashion" stuff and just put in the Wes stuff. No picture or anything, just this. Look what I found!
Alice Bamford is now working alongside cult American director Wes Anderson (who has recently made Paris his home). They bonded after holidaying on a yacht together and now she's helping to write his new film: "Something based in and around India," she enthused.
I wonder if this is the Fantastic Mr. Fox, but I thought that was set in Britain...or if it's a completely new project? Maybe that was the woman that was with Wes when he got his picture taken in Paris a while ago!
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captainllama
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Post by captainllama on Feb 28, 2006 13:34:06 GMT -5
She's married, also.
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Post by texasgal on Feb 28, 2006 20:41:23 GMT -5
If Wes is indefinitely ensconced in Paris with new project partners, looks like there's no Wes/Owen writing project in the near future.  Our loss. I'd love to see them write together again sometime. I just hope Wes is as happy as Owen seems to be. |
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captainllama
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Post by captainllama on Mar 3, 2006 0:41:09 GMT -5
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Post by sculpturedsound on Mar 3, 2006 0:58:42 GMT -5
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Post by OwenFan96 on Jan 25, 2007 20:06:13 GMT -5
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Post by Remi on Jan 26, 2007 7:04:22 GMT -5
I've never seen it before either. What is it?  Maybe it's just early here, but I don't understand it. #goodmorning#  |
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Post by Gage51 on Jan 26, 2007 13:30:18 GMT -5
#donotknow# I have no idea what this is.....is it some sort of AOL-type chat with Wes? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Beth #dontknow#
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Post by OwenFan96 on Jan 26, 2007 15:21:43 GMT -5
yeah i wasnt sure what i was reading at first either but i guess its some sort of online chat wes did..but i thought it was awesome, i like the nice things he says about owen
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Post by scarletshoes2000 on Jan 27, 2007 8:20:48 GMT -5
I think that this is from the data base of some type of computer-based 'chat' programme developed by someone in a University (I remember seeing something about a similar type of pro gramme some time ago). It is set up to respond to different types of question, picking out specific words (probably like 'Bottle Rocket', 'Owen' etc) to direct the most appropriate answers - or just to reply with vague words like 'yes', 'how interesting' etc.....I guess the student who developed it is/was a Wes Fan !
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Post by Remi on Jan 27, 2007 11:36:30 GMT -5
Thanks Scarlet! That does make sense!  |
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Post by OwenFan96 on Sept 11, 2007 11:32:08 GMT -5
Wes Anderson To Direct New AT&T Ads
If you’re in the entertainment industry, it goes without saying that having a loyal fan base is important. Take Wes Anderson, for instance. He’s the brains behind such wonderful films as Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, and Bottle Rocket. In fact, Rushmore is my favorite movie of all time. As my friend Mike says, “There are two kinds of people in this world. People that like the movie ‘Rushmore’ and people that I hate.” I’ll be interested to see the reaction from the rest of Wes’ fans today now that it’s been announced that he’s doing commercials for AT&T.
The ad campaign is called “Your Seamless World” and hopes to “speak to the on-the-go lifestyle of today’s consumers and businesses.” Anderson will be overseeing six of the commercials.
I don’t think it’s going to end his career. In fact, I don’t even think it’ll do much, if any, damage. He seems to have a pretty level head on his shoulders and, let’s face it, he already made an American Express ad last year. Wes is just a guy who made some great movies and now he can reap the sponsorship-type rewards. I just wonder if he actually uses AT&T and how he feels about the product itself.
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AT&T rolls out hip mobile ads-
Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. Tuesday is unveiling TV ads by quirky director Wes Anderson aimed at giving it a fresher, hipper image and turning up the marketing focus on its wireless operations, a shift that began about when the company purchased BellSouth Corp.
In one of the spots directed by Anderson, whose films include "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums," an actor playing a student explains that he grew up in Philadelphia, goes to school in Delaware, has a brother in Prague and friends in Chicago, all as a soundstage revolves around him depicting his shift between the four locations.
"I need a network that works where I live, a place called Philawarepraguicago," the actor says.
Other ads show a mother, a reporter and an architect using and talking about San Antonio-based AT&T's service while locations shift behind them — an effect similar to one used in Anderson's movie "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" in which crew members walk room to room through a bisected ocean vessel. In each of the ads, the main character makes a lengthy compound word out of the places that he or she needs to stay in touch with.
"The insight we're trying to convey is that people's lives are made up of all the different places, and that as a communications company AT&T allows them to live and work in any of them," said Wendy Clark, senior vice president for advertising. "There's a transformation afoot at AT&T, and we think these ads really punctuate that transformation."
AT&T's choice of Anderson, who's also done ads for American Express, signals that it's attempting to shed a conservative — some would say stodgy — marketing history as it vies for younger, wireless-focused customers, analysts said. The company is launching online, print and outdoor advertising that ties in with the commercials.
Over recent months, AT&T has shifted marketing emphasis to its mobile-communications business, once known as Cingular Wireless. That's happened as competition from cable providers and a consumer shift to wireless phones and the Internet have cut into its traditional business of providing landline phone service.
Since the beginning of the year, AT&T has been phasing out the Cingular Wireless brand it once co-owned with BellSouth, replacing it with its corporate moniker. By the time Apple Inc. and AT&T launched the much-anticipated iPhone two months ago, the company had almost eliminated the Cingular brand.
"The consumer knows what they know about AT&T from its long history," Atlanta-based telecom analyst Jeff Kagan said of the new ad campaign. "They know them from having done business with them for the past 10, 15, 20 years. But AT&T is a very different company from the one it was 10 years ago. Their marketing challenge is to communicate that."
Though the new ads have a fresh and contemporary look, Kagan said, "we'll have to see whether consumers respond to them."
Frost & Sullivan analyst Vikrant Gandhi said AT&T is smart to emphasize wireless in its ad campaigns, but he questioned whether the focus on the scope of its network does enough to set it apart from rivals such as Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, which also tout their network coverage.
"Obviously the network is important," he said. "Bit it's not necessarily a differentiator among the four biggest carriers. They all have fairly wide coverage."
Tying in with its new campaign, AT&T will begin using orange — the color of the old Cingular logo — as the primary color in its advertising palette, although the company will retain the blue in its distinctive globe-shaped logo. AT&T's Web site, direct mail pieces and signage in its 1,800 retail stores all will get an orange makeover, which the company's Clark said gives a more "vibrant, energetic" look to the marketing materials.
Later this month, it also will launch a Web site aimed at teens and people in their early 20s called "Digital World" that lets visitors develop a color-coded graphic showing how they spend their time online. Users can download the graphic and post it on social network sites such as MySpace or Facebook, and those who opt in will receive special offers from the company based on their interests.
"The site is something that lets that particular demographic interact with the AT&T brand and understand what it has to offer," Clark said.
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vendettav
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Post by vendettav on Sept 11, 2007 13:41:39 GMT -5
This sounds great! I know a lot of people are going to pull the 'sell-out!' card.
But no, I don't see it like that. He is making a small film, people! A thirty-second movie that you can see randomly on TV. He's taking a commercial and making it GOOD.
That's not selling out.
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Post by texasgal on Sept 11, 2007 16:44:14 GMT -5
I agree, vendettav. Donovan sold some of his music to advertisers, and I think no less of him because of it. It's called 'business.'
And I loved Wes' American Express commercial.
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Post by scarletshoes2000 on Sept 13, 2007 12:33:55 GMT -5
For UK fans: ''The Darjeeling Limited' has been selected to close the forthcoming British Film Festival (showing in London on 1 November 2007) - and Wes is talking about his movies the previous evening - see www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/lff/day/20071031 |
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