\u2018He had made a request for his usual escort, the one from his days on the circuit, to meet him at the pier by way of the Green Line bus. As always, she was late\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
They\u2019re just two sentences, but they\u2019re two fantastic sentences. Two fantastic sentences made even more fantastic by way of Alec Baldwin\u2019s warm delivery. They could be the starting sentences of a short story, a novel, whatever you like. At this point, we have a smattering of information about Richie\u2019s glittering former career as a tennis player. As for the \u2018she\u2019, absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bus rides smoothly into position and stops, dropping off a serene Margot Tenenbaum (Gyneth Paltrow in perhaps her best film role; either this or The Talented Mr Ripley<\/em>), made all the more serene by the use of slow motion and the opening of Nico\u2019s dreamlike \u2018These Days\u2019. Richie stares on in a dazed stupor as Margot continues to walk towards him, then stands up and shyly crosses his arms as \u2018These Days\u2019 fades away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The moment lasts for less than a minute, but it\u2019s the distinctive use of music and vibrant imagery that makes a huge emotional impact. As Music Supervisor Mike Ladman notes of the musical interlude, the audience \u2018can have some poetic freedom. And you don\u2019t need to say exactly what you\u2019re seeing right now\u2019. Music and imagery do all the emotional legwork without a single word needing to be spoken by either Margot or Ritchie during the slow motion. Wes Anderson continued this tradition with magnificent effect in many of his later works, of course, but has never quite captured that wonder and awe since. Will he come close in Asteroid City<\/em>? We\u2019ll have to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018He had made a request for his usual escort, the one from his days on the circuit, to meet him at the pier by way of the Green Line bus. As always, she was late\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}