Alphaville and Life Aquatic

Touche' my friend. I saw Alphaville before Life Aquatic and must say that the scenes with violence in Alphville definitley came to mind when watching Life Aquatic, and it is surely due to the way they deal with the subject matter. The "action" scenes in Alphaville I felt like were over the top in a humorous way to comment on the action in other film noir movies, where as Life Aqautic seemed to be laughing more at the 90's action movies. Both great passes at the contemporary hollywood movies of the respective time periods. Good stuff. You've made a great observation about two great films, and I concur with it.

Strange, I remember thinking about the life aquatic while watching alphaville, though i can't recall exactly why, i know it wasn't because of the shooting scenes. I'll have to see it again, i guess.
It also made me think of pulp fiction. i know QT is a big admirer of Godard and in the scene in which Lemmy Caution is captured and Natacha tells a joke, Natacha reminded me of Mia Wallace (the similar hair cuts probably had a lot to do with it also)
I also was reminded of Bertolucci's il conformista. Plotwise there are some similarities. But there is a scene in il conformista were Marcello and Manganiello are quarelling in a bathroom, they hit a lamp and the light swings in and out of the frame. In Alphaville the same thing happens with a light bulb in the staircase.

wes anderson are influenced in many ways by godard and the new wave. He has confirmed this himself as well. The slapstic-like action in life aquatic is probaly a homage as well as the vivid color scheme...

I think a lot of people tend to forget that Godard has a pretty good sense of humor -- watch "Band of Outsiders," for example and it's full of out-and-out gags. It's a similar shock to when you find the comic bits and lines in "The Seventh Seal" or you remember that Bergman made a great comedy in "Smiles of a Summer Night."

To me there are very few great moviemakers who don't allow at least a little comedy into their films. It's like the way that even in "King Lear" or "Hamlet" Shakespeare makes sure to throw in puns, plays on words, slapstick, etcetera... great movies are like any other great art in that they have to show some of the richness of life and life is often pretty silly.

The action scenes in "Life Aquatic" made me laugh out loud -- the way Bill Murray would stand there with a gun while twenty guys were firing at him from point-blank range. Wes Anderson's got those deadpan New Wave touches down perfectly. I also liked the fact that it ended with that bizarre "Buckaroo Banzai" reference; it's the sort of thing Godard used to love, throwing in some steal from a cheap fun movie that maybe he and three others might recognize. Frankly I think Anderson's one of the best people going these days....

And if I did know Carl LaFong I wouldn't admit it.

I laughed during the elevator scene, it's like Lemmy is tossed around like a pinball or something.

wes anderson is my favorite director and today i saw "alphaville" for the first time and i definitely see the connection.

here's some things that i thought were funny in "alphaville".

- natasha: "what do you do for a living" lemmy: "i work."
- lemmy being thrown around in the elevator
- that dude that keeps reading from the book. lemmy just takes it and throws it away.
- people crawling around and throwing themselves at walls at the end.
- lemmy's laugh after natasha's story.

Where are you, Mount Everest? Give me some Everest.

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everytime i watch godard i pisss wrong