Unfortunately for Wes Anderson, his seven-year-old has heard about Star Wars
“Well, we have Disney+ and we don’t use it, but it’s there.”
Wes Anderson makes Wes Anderson movies. It’s why it was so easy for those A.I. generators to pump out simulations of his artistic style so quickly. Easily imitated, never equaled, his color-coded, symmetrical, and disaffected aesthetics make for easy fan art, but it’s always a poor substitute for the real thing. The same is true for Star Wars, which is another easy one for generative A.I. enthusiasts to latch onto. All this is to say, the general public seemingly believes the last type of movie Anderson would ever try and make is a Star Wars. Unfortunately for Anderson, his daughter is seven years old and recently “heard about Star Wars.”
Speaking with Letterboxd while promoting his first foray into science fiction, Anderson name checked George Lucas’ masterpiece as the “least-hidden movie” influence on Asteroid City. “It’s relevant to my life right now,” he said. “My daughter is seven, and she’d heard about Star Wars and kept asking me about it. So I said, well, we have Disney+, and we don’t use it, but it’s there.”