{"id":9189,"date":"2018-04-02T19:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T23:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T23:32:05","slug":"9189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2018\/04\/02\/9189\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of any movie set to come out this year, I am the most excited for Wes Anderson\u2019s upcoming stop motion film, \u201cIsle of Dogs\u201d.\u00a0 Like many, I have always been a big fan of Anderson\u2019s very specific and unique style.\u00a0 He is one of the few popular directors these days that have a truly recognizable look and feel to their films.\u00a0 He styles movies in unique ways, most notably his use of the same group of actors in the majority of his films.\u00a0 If you are watching a movie that is unrealistically color coordinated, extremely symmetrical, and features Bill Murray, you know you are watching a Wes Anderson picture.\u00a0 I have always been a big fan of his first film, \u201cBottle Rocket\u201d.\u00a0 While it may be one of his least popular films, its amazing to see how he began forming his style, and while it is not and intensely stylized, you can see sprinklings of what is to come in his future work.<\/p>\n

I feel that Anderson particularly shines in stop motion animation, as seen in \u201cFantastic Mr. Fox\u201d, and for this reason, I am particularly excited for \u201cIsle of Dogs\u201d.\u00a0 Stop motion animation is a perfect platform for his style; he can manipulate the visuals as much as he wants, making each aspect look perfect (in live action this is more difficult).\u00a0 Wes Anderson often has a lot of humor in his films, and the youthful and childlike qualities of this animation style defiantly benefits from this comedic aspects.\u00a0 As a huge fan of animation, I am always excited to see a animated film that is targeted more towards adults, since I think it is such a fun juxtaposition when you have mature themes in the story line being depicted in a traditionally child centric medium.<\/p>\n

The story of \u201cIsle of Dogs\u201d is that of a dystopian future, where all dogs are exiled from Japan and sent to a garbage island.\u00a0 A little boy named Atari goes to the island to look for his lost dog.\u00a0 There, he meets a rag tag group of dogs that help him on his journey to find his pup.\u00a0 These dogs are such a joy to watch, because of how extremely human like they speak and how matter of fact they are.\u00a0 As always, Anderson\u2019s visuals are insanely beautiful.\u00a0 There\u2019s a huge cast of top notch actors, including, but not limited to Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Ed Norton, Yoko Ono, and my personal favorite Greta Gerwig.\u00a0 While Anderson\u2019s movies can have a lot of darkness and cynicism at times, theres no denying that all of his films have a lot of heart and sweetness.\u00a0 If you are still not convinced on this film, I would highly suggest checking out the films official website, where the voice actors talk about their characters as<\/i> their animated characters, its a real gem.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.isleofdogsmovie.com\/<\/p>\n

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Still from “Isle of Dogs”, via Fox Searchlight\/20th Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of any movie set to come out this year, I am the most excited for Wes Anderson\u2019s upcoming stop motion film, \u201cIsle of Dogs\u201d.\u00a0 Like many, I have always been a big fan of Anderson\u2019s very specific and unique style.\u00a0 He is one of the few popular directors these days that have a truly recognizable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}