The artisanally-hand crafted worlds of Wes Anderson are obviously whimsically delicate, precious, often delightful, frequently ornate, and are globally renowned for their visual distinctiveness: precise, symmetrical, soft-hued pastel color-inflected, and rigorous to the point of being lovingly caricatured on social media TikTok videos. Perhaps what isn’t as apparent to the viewer is just how detailed and fastidious Anderson’s screenplays have become in recent years, like prescriptive miniature novels in their own right.

In other words, the written word is really just as important to Anderson’s film, though often overshadowed by his eccentric and idiosyncratic visual style (though he’s been nominated for Best Original Screenplay three times, so someone is paying attention).

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