Ever since the screen lit up with his first
films
,
Wes Anderson's
cinematographic creations
have been gaining followers.
Their observers, from the most critical to the most irreducible fans, have examined them from all points of view.
Whether it was for the style of its protagonists, the red cap of Bill Muray, the underwater explorer of
The Aquatic Life
or the Gwyneth Paltrow of the Tennabaum family, with that seemingly impossible mix of Fendi coat and Lacoste sportswear.
Or also for its careful soundtracks, musical sequences that have deserved all kinds of tributes in the form of musical lists on digital platforms.
Or by the typography of your credit titles.
Anderson can boast like few others of a filmography dissected both by specialized film magazines and by the
most sophisticated fashion and trend
magazines
.
His cinematographic imagination has left his accent on fashion,
interior
design and design, marked by that distinctive color palette, that chromatic obsession dominated by red and yellow.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the networks have also set their eyes on that Wes Anderson style, sometimes with a
vintage
taste
,
always difficult to repeat and with great plasticity.
Among the dozens of
online
tributes and tributes
, it
is worth highlighting the initiative launched in 2017 by Wally Koval, creator of the successful
account
Accidentally Wes Anderson, which has just become a book of the same name.
"It all started as a private project, a whim, without the will to become something extraordinary," declared Koval on the
It's Nice That website
.
That "whim" would end up becoming an account with more than a million followers.
The proposal: to reconstruct the sets and landscapes of Anderson's films from
real
settings
from anywhere in the world.
The Instagram album grew little by little and collaboratively, thanks to the contribution of Wes Anderson lovers in all corners of the planet, with photographs that seemed to be taken from
Aquatic Life, A
Trip to Darjeeling,
The Grand Budapest Hotel
or
Moonrise. Kingdom.
The imagery that the director projects in his cinema could accidentally come true.
Unbelievable but real architectures
That visual adventure is now condensed in the book
Accidentally Wes Anderson
(Trapeze / Orion Books), a great travel guide for fans of Wes Anderson, but also for travelers curious to discover charming landscapes or architectures that do not usually appear in the manuals.
The book also has a foreword by the filmmaker himself: “The photographs in this book have been taken by people I do not know, in places I did not know, who did not know of their existence, but thanks to them, they encourage me to know them , which I hope to do, "he writes.
"The photographs in this book have been taken by people I do not know in places that I did not know of their existence, but now I hope to know"
Wes anderson
Wally Koval acknowledges the evolution of the account in all these years: “Although at first the images were highly influenced by the more general characteristics of Anderson's aesthetics - color, symmetry, nostalgia - with the passage of time the approach has it has been gaining complexity, although without abandoning those characteristic elements that have defined its imaginary, those pink lighthouses or facades that have become iconic images ”.
Constructed in a meticulous, meticulous way, it would almost be said that too meticulous to be true, the collection of images by
Accidentally Wes Anderson
is a journey into the fantasy of the American director, paradoxically, hand in hand with the most palpable reality.
Perhaps, at this moment, somewhere in the world, a person with his camera or his mobile is accidentally in front of a building, a lighthouse or the interior of a house that he believed with all security to have seen in a film of Wes Anderson, and that he will add to this album of imagined settings.