The Dogmatic Theology of Wes Anderson - The Living Church

The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson Strips His Style Back to Basics

Since the mid 90s, filmmaker Wes Anderson has delivered an instantly recognizable style few artists have these days. There are coffee table books, social media pages, and even AI slop associated to his sensibilities.

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NEW YORK (OSV News) – One of the topics dealt with, more or less in passing, in writer-director Wes Anderson’s 2023 film “Asteroid City” was religion. It came in for something of a bruising, though the script didn’t linger on the subject. Faith is put under the spotlight to a much greater degree in the auteur’s latest quirky work, “The Phoenician Scheme” (Focus), and the results are far more negative. Anderson’s script for this characteristicall…

The Dogmatic Theology of Wes Anderson - The Living Church

The Phoenician Scheme Directed by Wes Anderson Focus Pictures Thomas Á Kempis’ Imitation of Christ may not be the hottest reference in contemporary cinema, but its central thesis drives the narrative of Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. The Imitation speaks of two drives within the human heart: the Way of Nature and the Way of Grace. Nature is consumed by greed for wealth and power, for status and opulence. Nature is violent, a collector of …