Wesley Anderson, professionally referred to as Wes Anderson, has been writing and directing films since his early childhood and has been known by the public since the late 1990’s. He has won several awards for his screenplays of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and is well known for his quirky narrative style that emphasizes on uncomfortable truths in both plot structure and movement. For example, if a character in one of Wes Anderson’s films has to run down a long hallway it will take an uncomfortably long amount of time to do so.

Wes Anderson is well known among the public eye, even more so now due to the mass success of The Grand Budapest Hotel, mainly for his unique way of filming but also for his very common recasting of actors who have been in his previous films. For example, the actor Owen Wilson, whom Anderson met while attending college, has been cast in a whopping six out of Anderson’s eight full-length films while the actor Bill Murray has appeared in an even more impressive seven out of eight of Anderson’s works. Other commonly recast actors include: Adrien Brody (3 films), Willem Dafoe (3 films), Jeff Goldblum (2 films), Anjelica Houston (3 films), Harvey Kietel (2 films), Edward Norton (2 films), Jason Schwartzman (5 films), Tilda Swinton (2 films) and Luke Wilson (3 films).

Wes Andersons films are also widely known to be comically in a witty and, at times, very dry sense relying on over dramatization and bluntness to deliver most of the laughter. This style of writing is far out of the norm for a “popular” film maker and can definitely shy people away from his films at first but it is indeed worthwhile to get used to the formula as it has worked on so many occasions.

Recently, Anderson has been working on a multitude of short films after the release of The Grand Budapest Hotel but is rumored to be starting on another feature in the not too distant future. Regardless of what the film maker creates next, it is certain to be well attended by the public is if follows his recent success pattern as it should be.