God, we knew we had some weird nagging feeling when we spotted that first look of the foxes in Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr.Fox” earlier this afternoon.
The animated Anderson foxes looked semi creepy and vaguely familiar and Movieline’s Kyle Buchanan nails it. They look vaguely like the creepy, also-talking fox in Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist,” — which you can see in a version of the “Antichrist” trailer — that at one points stops and growls at Willem Dafoe in the film and says, “Chaos reigns!” (yes, it’s a pretty unintentionally funny moment in the film).
We really have no excuse. We actually saw “Antichrist,” at Cannes and we’re pretty sure Buchanan was still here in the U.S., so boo on us and yay on him. Such a good and amusing observation.
What’s more is both films are scheduled for the fall, with “Antichrist” hitting in limited release on October 23 and “Fantastic Mr. Fox” landing November 13 in the U.S. So it’ll be like the battle of the talking foxes at the box-office, right? OK, not by even a little, but we thought the vague similarities were worth pointing out and doing this A-B image. Maybe Lars and Wes should make a film together, lord knows it would silence their critics and us, becuase surely they’d come up with the most-fucked up unique film ever.
Speaking of, whatever happened to that supposed (alleged?) Danny Boye/Lars Von Trier collaboration? That we would also love to see.