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This week in class, we that the pleasure of watching a film by one of the world's best directors, Wes Anderson. We watched the 2004 film, The Life Aquatic featuring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Willem Defoe, I am a huge fan of Willem Defoe, and when I first watched this movie, I remember screaming with happiness when I saw him on the screen.
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One of the main things that Wes Anderson incorporates in his films the importance of family and friends. This is what I would like to talk about in my blog today. In this film we are introduced to Ned (Owen Wilson), who is an airplane pilot. Ned tells Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) that he is his illegitimate son and that is when their father-son bond started to form, but like every family, they had their fights. Through all of the fights, Ned and Steve still found their way back to each other. One of my favorite fight scenes is towards the end of the movie when Steve finds out that Ned has been lying about sleeping with Jane (Cate Blanchett), the journalist reporter on their mission to find the jaguar shark that killed Steve's friend.
Ned was a desperate man hoping to have a father figure in his life and to be a father figure to Jane's baby since he did not have that growing up. Anderson did a very good job at tugging at the audience's heartstrings in many scenes of the move, even though the makeup of the film seemed comical. All Ned wanted was to be loved by people he could call family. The closest he got to reaching that goal was the relationship he built with Jane and Stave on their mission to find the jaguar shark. Unfortunately, Ned never got to live out his dream of having a true family because he died in a helicopter accident.
The film ends with Steve finally seeing the shark with the remaining members of his crew. In that moment, you see all of them come together as a family. They had been creating the documentary for months now, and Steve finally got his happy ending of getting film on the jaguar shark, however he is missing a crucial member of the crew, Ned. In the end scene, we see the crew members watching the documentary and getting emotional in Ned's memorium scene. Jane is seen holding her baby and then the camera pans over to the crew and you see an empty seat; I know that this seat was saved for Ned. All I can say is Ned's spirit will be watching over his "family" in heaven. Seeing this film again after not seeing it for a while made me both happy and sad. The way that Wes was able to make a movie both comical and sad is a gift. He is one of the world's best directors, and I recommend everyone watch this movie.
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