July 17th, 2012

Wes Anderson’s Pre-Production Notes for Moonrise Kingdom

discover long lost norman rockwell oil painting of summer camp and americana in the attic… craft confectionery dollhouse cake of marzipan and sugar plums based on portrait… borrow old-timey kodak to shoot 35mm prints… take pictures of the pictures with instagram and saturate with “whimsical twee” filter… finally, stitch together precious, stop-action flipbook set to a francois hardy record playing on a phonograph… show bill murray.

INVENTORY OF PRECIOUS PROPS AND TIMELESS TROPES

1. a boy named sam (undersized, orphan)
2. a girl named suzy (left-handed, troubled child)
3. a fictional new england islet named “new penzance”
4. over-sized binoculars
5. tortoise shell eyeglasses
6. a lighthouse (with a lookout perch)
7. hand-written letters in brown crayon (for epistolary exposition)
8. a troop of “khaki scouts” (troop #55)
9. cuffed shorts with cuffed socks for boys
10. black eye-liner and eye shadow for girls
11. knee-high socks for everyone
12. wool cardigans for everyone

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