Wes Anderson's latest is as hollow as anything AI could come up with
Wes Anderson is unlucky enough to have a strong, unique personal style, one that's immediately recognisable, and also immediately replicated. There's a series of books called Accidentally Wes Anderson, consisting entirely of photos of various pastel-coloured objects, elegantly framed. Online, there are dozens of videos people have made with AI, showing Wes Anderson's Harry Potter ('The Grand Hogwarts School'), Wes Anderson's Star Wars ('The Galactic Menagerie'), and Wes Anderson's Lord of the Rings ('The Whimsical Fellowship'). Apparently, Wes Anderson hates this stuff. 'If somebody sends me something like that,' he told the Times, 'I'll immediately erase it and say, 'Please, sorry, do not send me things of people doing me.'' And ordinarily I'd be sympathetic. There's a real difference between creation and imitation, coming up with a genuinely distinctive style and getting a computer to vomit up something formally similar. The imitation will always be fundamentally empty and soulless. No unity of vision, just hollow form. The problem is that Wes Anderson keeps on making films like The Phoenician Scheme, which is essentially an extruded bolus of Anderson film-like product, and exactly as hollow as anything to come out of a machine.
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