Does Wes Anderson Get Royalties on This?
September 18th, 2007 by Damon-The kid looks and sounds like Dirk Calloway
-He’s precocious like the Tenenbaums or Max Fischer
-His racing uniform has a European, 1960s look about it, like everything in Rushmore
-While the fact that he wears a uniform in daily life conforms to athletes-as-pitchmen conventions, it also matches Anderson’s movies (all four of which involved uniforms for the protagonists)
-Ari and Uzi race go-carts with Royal in The Royal Tenenbaums.
I would’ve thought this too obvious to point out, but when I googled all sorts of permutations of Geico, Wes Anderson, go-cart, and Wallace (the Nascar dude), I didn’t find any results. Maybe I’ve just watched too much Wes Anderson.
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September 19th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Are you saying this isn’t a Wes Anderson-written/directed commercial?!! It screams of his artistry, and the boy’s monologue sounds as it it could be taken directly from the Royal Tenenbaums script.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I don’t think he did. At least, I couldn’t find evidence of it through any web searches. But maybe I just don’t know where to look.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:23 am
I’m with you man — not surprising, as I came here from a Google search that I imagine was not dissimilar to the ones that you were conducting.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I know what you mean. I’ve thought these commercials looked rather Wes Andersonesque since I first saw it, but I can’t find any evidence anywhere to support it.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I just want to agree with the rest of you. I was looking to see if this commercial was directed by him as well. We can’t be the only people thinking this is either a work of Wes or an Anderson “knock-off”. The thing is it does not steal from just one of his films - it has bits and pieces from his overall work. If he is not getting props for it, he should be flattered to be so immitated.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:04 am
One more—saw the commercial, immediately did a search for “Wes Anderson” and “GEICO commercial.”
If it’s not Wes Anderson, it’s a damn good imitation.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
YES, this has his fingerprints written all over. He definately did the cellular ones with the interchangable sets. Enough of this dork-chic cool kid Upper East Side b.s. already!!!
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