The internet. June 12, 2023. 12:54 p.m. Wes Anderson doesn't want to see any more TikToks impersonating his style.
As a viral trend on the app continues to spread clips of TikTokkers' vacations videos, the birth of their babies and house tours — all shot and edited in the style of the famed filmmaker — Anderson is politely asking those close to him to refrain from showing him any Wes Anderson memes.
"I'm very good at protecting myself from seeing all that stuff," Anderson said in a new interview with The Times.
"If somebody sends me something like that I'll immediately erase it and say, 'Please, sorry, do not send me things of people doing me,'" he continued.
Anderson elaborated, "Because I do not want to look at it, thinking, 'Is that what I do? Is that what I mean?' I don't want to see too much of someone else thinking about what I try to be because, God knows, I could then start doing it."
In all fairness to the director, he hasn't asked creators to stop making videos in the style of Wes Anderson — he just doesn't want to risk damaging his artistic vision with any further exposure to plebeian filmmaking!
Anderson purists can get their fix of the director's true artistic merit in theatres when Asteroid City arrives on June 23.
As a viral trend on the app continues to spread clips of TikTokkers' vacations videos, the birth of their babies and house tours — all shot and edited in the style of the famed filmmaker — Anderson is politely asking those close to him to refrain from showing him any Wes Anderson memes.
"I'm very good at protecting myself from seeing all that stuff," Anderson said in a new interview with The Times.
"If somebody sends me something like that I'll immediately erase it and say, 'Please, sorry, do not send me things of people doing me,'" he continued.
Anderson elaborated, "Because I do not want to look at it, thinking, 'Is that what I do? Is that what I mean?' I don't want to see too much of someone else thinking about what I try to be because, God knows, I could then start doing it."
In all fairness to the director, he hasn't asked creators to stop making videos in the style of Wes Anderson — he just doesn't want to risk damaging his artistic vision with any further exposure to plebeian filmmaking!
Anderson purists can get their fix of the director's true artistic merit in theatres when Asteroid City arrives on June 23.
