Analysing Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox
What would you give up, to relive the glory days? This is the question posed by Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I felt inspired to re-watch after reviewing Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl Netflix shorts . I believe Fantastic Mr. Fox is a better adaptation. It builds atop the original instead of just reading from the page. The film follows Fantastic Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) a renowned chicken thief, now middle aged and stuck living the family life as a newspaper columnist. Fox is suffering a mid-life crisis. He wishes to return to his true purpose: stealing birds. This leads him to steal from the three biggest and meanest farmers around: Bogus, Bunce, and Bean, starting a war that leads to the destruction of his forest home. The theme of animalistic inhibitions is key to Fox’s character, he does these self-destructive things because he believes it’s his purpose as a fox. This is contrasted by the anthropomorphic nature of the animals: they wear suits, they have jobs, they own possessio...