Wes Vs. P.T.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Ned Plimpton: I'm gonna fight you, Steve.
[Steve hits Ned in the face]
Steve Zissou: You never say, "I'm gonna fight you, Steve." You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him.
Ned Plimpton: You fight your way, and I'll fight mine.
Steve Zissou: Oh, listen, Ned. Don't you try to...
[Ned hits Steve in the face]
Steve Zissou: I think your Team Zissou ring might've caught me on the lip.

Festival Director: [translating] That's an endangered species at most. What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?
Steve Zissou: Revenge.

Steve Zissou: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.

Steve Zissou: Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern.

Steve Zissou: Anne-Marie, do all the interns get Glocks?
Anne-Marie Sakowitz: No, they all share one.

Steve Zissou: Where'd you come from? You look pregnant.
Jane Winslett-Richardson: I am pregnant. I'm not even going to ask what you men are doing out here in your matching pajamas, by the way.

Ned Plimpton: Stevesy, what's going on? Are those hijackers?
Steve Zissou: Well, out here we call them "pirates," Ned.

Steve Zissou: Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music.

Ned Plimpton: You don't know me, you don't want to know me... I'm just a character in your stupid film.

Steve Zissou: This bull dyke's got something against us.
Ned Plimpton: I don't think she's a lesbian. She's pregnant.

Steve Zissou: Are you finding what you were looking for... out here with me? I hope so.

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Barry: Healthy Choice and American Airlines got together and put this promotion: If you buy any 10 Healthy Choice products, they will reward you with 500 frequent flier miles; with this special coupon, they'll up it to 1,000 miles. So, I think they are trying to push their teriyaki chicken which is $1.79, but I went to the supermarket and I looked around and I saw that they had pudding... for 25¢ a cup... comes in packages of four. But insanely... the barcodes... are on the individual cups! So, quarter a cup, say you bought $2.50 worth. That's worth 500... with the coupon it's 1,000 miles. It's a marketing mistake but I'm taking advantage of it. If you were to spend $3,000, that would get you a million frequent flier miles. You would never have to pay for a ticket the rest of your life.
Lena: You... you bought all that pudding so that you could get frequent flier miles?

Barry: I have to get more pudding for this trip to Hawaii. As I just said that out loud I realize it sounded a little strange but it's not.

Barry: I didn't do anything. I'm a nice man. I mind my own business. So you tell me 'that's that' before I beat the hell from you. I have so much strength in me you have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. I would say 'that's that', Mattress Man.

Barry: I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.
Lena: I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.
[pause]
Barry: OK. This is funny. This is nice.

Barry: I didn't ask for a shrink - that must've been somebody else. Also, that pudding isn't mine. Also, I'm wearing this suit today because I had a very important meeting this morning and I don't have a crying problem.

Barry: I don't know if there is anything wrong because I don't know how other people are.

Barry: [out of breath to his love Lena] Lena. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I left you at the hospital. I called a phone-sex line... I called a phone-sex line before I met you, and four blond brothers came after me and they hurt you, and I'm sorry. Then I had to leave again because I wanted to make sure you never got hurt again. And I have a lot of puddings, and in six to eight weeks it can be redeemed. So if you could just give me that much time, I think I can get enough mileage to go with you wherever you go if you have to travel for your work. Because I don't ever want to be anywhere without you. So could you just let me redeem the mileage?

I've been meaning to write this blog for some time, I saw the Darjeeling Limited the New Wes Anderson film a couple of weeks ago and both these guys have a handle on saying yo um... what the fuck, and I don't think that's what they mean to say, but then again I've never met them so I don't know. But regardless, the topic for today for them is identity. Their pictures in my opinion are identifiably their pictures. Both of these directors say their piece that is distictively their pictures. They have this way of awkwardly telling a story that is unsubtly their story. I like them both, except for PT's magnolia which I've taken hard-core criticism for not enjoying or relating to. Maybe I'll watch it again.

In my opinion, they have their identities on lock down. They tell the story cinematically, and visually the way I believe they wrote it without having to give up any artistic interpretation to anyone. Their weird but not too F'en weird that you can't enjoy it.

I've been reading a book. " How to be an adult in relationships". My cousin gave it to me last christmas and I believe it took till now to feel well enough to crack it open. It's brilliant in a lot of different ways. On one way it helps you get in touch with yourself and actually open up to way the criticism of others of you. What it has done also is give way to let go of my ego, which I think as good as my european experience was, my ego has gotten worse while I was there. I don't know how or why. I did'n't accomplish anything I set out to accomplish but I believe I adapted many of the locals traits and ego was definitel;y one of them. I thought it was pride. Nope it was ego, which I guess they are similiar in some ways, none of them good.

Even though I wouldn't say I'm happy persay since I've come home, I am content. I started a new script that I believe will be a good start before I attempt daydreams (another script) this summer. I'm moving in the same direction I was a year before I left, and crazy as it may soud, I'm happy with that. I'm content and happy that I'm back on track. I know how to do this, beyond what's been said of how it is done or could be done. I know my mistakes with this better then trying to understand my mistakes with people. I look to books and knowledge from now on to try and understand those. I believe the trial and error from here on out should be isolated into what I'm trying to make, what is the message I'm trying to say. How will it be recieved. On that notion I'm there, I'm getting good.

It's a harmony. Two voices, different pitch, singing the same words but singing, saying, speaking, conveying, differently. It is the most important. I feel it, like it is right. Like when we release this film it will be a black tie affair. Please come ;) Essentially, film wise, we will fix all the mistakes of before plus my charachters will have solid motivations, and those motivations will bring to life a much different way of life then you or I are accustomed to. I believe it, this picture will bring to life the simple pleasures of our lives. That is my disertation. What simplicity has to offer. I gotta say this off the last post, I just have to, cause I have no tact, god knows if I ever will, but when I say simplicity, or better yet when I call myself a name like truth, I think that truth is feeling. I believe in it like faith, like religon, and that faith and religon makes a certain set of oppertunities availible and those oppertunities will not have to be said, perhaps making the situation less truthful according to some, but those emotions that drove all of it into play, they were, they are.

Makes a bit of a contrast doesn't it.... Well it's pitch ain't so tightly threaded. I will cats cradle it before the day is through cause hey.. umm this is like my life and this is like the time that I need to understand it. I have a saying up on my myspace. Life isn't about finding who you are, life is about creating who you are. That saying, me tattooing "know thyself" on my arm, it's a process. I can't say for certain that these twon dudes that I've seen all their movies have it but what I can say is that they are still tring to do it. And I admire it. It's raining out, hard-core and shawshank redemption is playing, off the player, I recommend you listen to it, when it came on I stopped typing and went outside in the middle of the street and took on that rain. It felt soooo right, sooo now!