[NEW] Asteroid City Review (Schaffrillas Segment)

[@IsaacV24]

Who’s ready for Schaffrillas’ ranking of all the Wes Anderson films?!? Cause I AM!

[@Whomstami]

I love how the set design and stuff actually made this movie FEEL like the set of a play, especially with the practical effect roadrunner and stuff

[@pchou8118]

Not sure if you're ever going to read this but I think a lot of people missed a major part of the film - the relationship between Conrad (Edward Norton) and Jones (Jason Schwartzman). At the start of the film, we are explicitly shown that Jones became Conrad's muse and lover. Later in the film, we are told that Conrad died in a vehicle accident shortly before Asteroid City (the play) debuted on stage. I feel like the whole film itself definitely isn't about the meaninglessness of life, but the acceptance of loss and the frustration of grief. Imagine being Jones, playing a character written by your ex-lover, a character who is also trying to accept a loss. You are trying to find meaning, trying see decipher a message. During the Asteroid City sections, there are scenes where the actors "break the forth wall". Mercedes (Scarlett Johansson) breaks character to tell Jones to channel his grief for the scene - he can't because he's too afraid to. During the scene where Jones actually burns his hand, Mercedes breaks character once again, saying "You (Jones) actually did it." And in the scene with Margot Robbie, it is where Jones finally gets closure. Through Augie's wife's deleted lines, Jones hears from Conrad: " I am not coming back." The whole film is a journey of acceptance of loss. Where Asteroid City opens with a vehicle incident, it closes with Augie leaving Asteroid City: with both Augie and Jones moving on and accepting their loss. Edit: also there is so much queer subtext in the film regarding Conrad's queerness! In Conrad's room, on the walls there are multiple homoerotic cowboy paintings. And the "romance scenes" between Augie and Midge, there are both framed in boxes - in the closet almost, and not explicitly shown.

[@spacecaster3802]

I love your channel Schaffrillas. And I know you’re gonna be bigger than ever before as you do more and more director rankings.

[@AfroOtaku917]

Fun Fact! The three girls who played the daughters of Jason Schwartzman, their mom was my old Economics teacher! I actually even got to see the movie with one of them, along with their mom!

[@DannyMB24]

That's awesome, dude!

[@SHARKREPELLENTBATS]

So happy to see ya branching out to director filmographies! Can’t wait for the full vid

[@matthewhunter1193]

Definitely understand James' confusion behind the overall meaning of this movie. I myself was confused about certain aspects of this movie's plot... But that might have to do with the fact that in the first minute of the movie, some dude in front of me had a heart attack in my screening and they had to bring paramedics in (they didn't stop the movie, i think the dude was fine overall). I still enjoyed the movie, from what i could make out of the plot, and personally even if I didn't always understand the film's intent, i definitely FELT the intent... If that makes any sense.

[@fullmetalmasify]

I had seen this in the theater just on the day before my birthday. Somehow I never got bored, felt intrigued with what I was seeing and liked the way the presentation was handled

[@therealbingus5143]

I think I appreciate the more subdued emotional aspects to this movie as opposed to other more tear jerking scenes in some of Wes' movies. I think the "im not coming back Auggie" scene was incredibly impactful, even if it didn't explicitly show any character breaking down emotionally.

[@ChrisJFilms]

I saw this in the theater, and that alien scared the shit out of me. The way it was framed, it was just so intimidating.

[@WyattD03]

Wasn’t expecting the Wes Anderson ranking to release before the Spielberg one (probably)

[@RandomBreakfast]

New Schaff clip on the clip channel this is like Scott the woz community tab every friday

[@yourtimetraveleralara]

yeah.

[@BugsyFoga]

This would make for my third Wes Anderson film I’ve seen(the others being fantastic Mr fox and isle of dogs), and even saw it with my mom for my birthday, and I gotta say it was certainly fascinating time.

[@willpower8289]

I’m embarrassed to say this was my first Wes Anderson movie. I’ve only heard of Fantastic Mr. Fox but I haven’t gotten to watching it. And I’ve only seen *that* scene from Isle of the Dogs (you know the scene). So I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I liked the movie a lot after my first viewing but now I’m kind of not sure how I feel about it. I didn’t understand it completely on my first viewing which I think is the point but after watching it again it still didn’t make much sense to me. So I don’t know. I’m still not sure what to make of it.

[@chromplex]

This was also my first Anderson film- I caught (most of) it while on a cruise, since it just happened to be in rotation with other movies on-board. It was captivating to me in a way that no other movie has been. I may not have understood the method behind the madness or the point, per se, but it was oddly enjoyable despite how muted it felt in some ways. It's these loud sets clashing with the deadpan performance of the actors that's so uncanny, and I can't think of anything even close to it.

[@a18yearoldonyoutubeluigi]

OH SHIT WES ANDERSON RANKING COMING SOON, LETS GOO!

[@fantastmic]

it was just my imagination or the actor of Zero Mustafa (the lobby boy from grand Hotel Budapest) was in some scenes in this movie as an extra?

[@demigodwizardtributejedi4052]

yeah Tony Revolori played the General’s aide-de-camp in some scenes

[@PastelHarper]

Are you ranking all wes Anderson films?

[@thanekornelsen]

Yeah this is coming and I’m HYPED

[@bowlerhatfilmsandreviews2778]

One of my favourite films of the year, saw it twice at cinema, definitely worth seeing more than once to really explore its layers. To me the key to understanding the story is knowing that the ‘love story’ Wes said this film was about when he announced it isn’t in the play itself but between Conrad (the playwright) and Jones (the actor playing Augie) we only find out at very end Conrad died and that’s the final piece to understanding the story, it’s Jones trying to understand his grief through playing a grieving, emotionally out of touch widower in the play and wondering ‘am I doing it right?’ Jones went from questioning why Augie would burn his hand in the girdle cooker, to himself burning his hand on random impulse and not understanding why. Through revisiting the cut scene with the actress of the wife it’s like we’re getting closure for both Jones and Augie and it’s like Wes is asking us “None of these people are real; but which story *feels* more real to you?”

[@nintengy64]

Every Wes Anderson film ranked?!

[@ZggFghvgGrffht]

Ngl, I have never watched this movie before.

[@edgarleft]

I still don't understand what the "you can't wake up if you don't fall asleep" line is supposed to mean.

[@funnyhappystudios]

I don’t remember seeing this one… 🧐

[@aaronbaker5406]

What's the music playing in the background?

[@JAProductions494]

Yeah that’s pretty similar to my feelings towards the film

[@jacobbaum5731]

Here’s hoping the end joke makes it in the final cut

[@Durtle.]

Wes Anderson ranking soon???

[@typhoonthunder]

Can't wait to hear Schaff talk about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Easy 10/10

[@Mr_bukowski4435]

Instead of giving us nice rehashes bro just decided to give us new footage 🤯

[@lackingcreativevalue]

Wes Anderson ranking? Hell yeah!

[@kangarooMonkee]

OOOOOOOOO

[@MrGamerX48]

Let me guess......Fantastic Mr fox is number 1, right?

[@gianlucasabatini2817]

So weird seeing both Scott’s Stash and Snippets being copied wholesale by other KZbinrs recently

[@fnafboyahoy512]

Walter