At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Wes Anderson just presented his latest film, Asteroid City. The acclaimed film looks like a typical Anderson project filled with eccentric characters, a star-studded cast with Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson, and wacky visuals. Asteroid City it’s sure to be a crowd pleaser when it’s released later this year, but it’ll also help fuel the latest trend sweeping the internet: AI parodies.
With the rapid advancement of ChatGPT and AI generating software like Midjourney, “regular people” have taken these tools and applied their own creativity using established works by artists like Wes Anderson. Anderson’s AI parodies are fun to watch, but they also suggest an awful trend of co-opting the director’s distinct visual style and creating something that feels new when it’s actually a fancy rip-off. However, we rank everything Kingdom of the Rising Moon the director’s AI “tributes” and parodies, from the truly terrible to the surprisingly good.
Note: All of these AI images were generated using Midjourney unless otherwise noted. We have also tried to give credit to the artist who generated these images and distributed them on their social media channels when possible.
7. Wes Anderson’s Bible
Wes Anderson’s Bible with Adam and Eve by KosmonautMikeDexter/Midjourney. Image used with permission of the copyright holder
It should be a sin to combine two things that have nothing to do with each other, i The Wes Anderson Bible he commits an even graver offense against God and all that is holy by being completely boring. Does anyone want to see a Jason Schwartzman-like figure as the suave Adam next to Gwyneth Paltrow’s chic, dead-eyed Eve? Or Bill Murray as Moses? And if so, why would you?
Wes Anderson’s Bible, KosmonautMikeDexter/Midjourney. Image used with permission of the copyright holder
6. Wes Anderson’s Game of Thrones
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5. Wes Anderson’s Harry Potter
Wes Anderson’s Harry Potter Panorama Channel/Midjourney. Image used with permission of the copyright holder
The epitome of lazy mixing of two properties that should go well together, Panorama channel Harry Potter by Wes Anderson AI images are severely limited by the lack of creativity or sense behind the whole endeavor. All the characters you love from the Harry Potter universe, from Harry, Ron and Hermione to Snape, Dumbledore and Bellatrix Lestrange, have been reimagined as … their exact movie counterparts, except they wear the clothes of Wes Anderson’s characters from The Royal Tenenbaums and Aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
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The result is a parody that isn’t funny and a reimagining without any imagination. The only good thing about it is that it provides solid evidence that AI can never truly replace human creativity. AI is just a tool that shows how much, or in this case, how little, genius the person wielding that tool has.
4. Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings/The Whimsical Fellowship
Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings Trailer | Wonderful company
As created by content creator Curious Refuge (who has another Wes Anderson AI trailer on this list), Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson or, as Curious Refuge calls it, Wonderful company, gets points for being spot on in terms of familiarity with the source material. No mere lazy shuffling, Wonderful company he successfully infuses Anderson’s style into several of Tolkien’s most famous inventions, including convincing setting Hotel Grand BudapestThe titular pink structure in Middle-earth and the genius casting of Willem Dafoe as Gollum. Extra points for Timothée Chalamet’s introduction as Frodo, who is so short that the camera has to be tilted down to see him fully.
Timothée Chalamet as Frodo in The Galactic Menagerie Curious Refuge. Image used with permission of the copyright holder
Still, the combination of Wes Anderson with JRR Tolkien’s most famous creation doesn’t quite work as a parody (intentional or unintentional) or reimagining for me. As before, Wonderful company not over the top enough to elicit many laughs or insight into any LotR or Anderson’s oeuvre beyond the usual moving targets (centered visual compositions, montages of seemingly everyday objects, etc.). As a remake, Lord of the Rings it’s already whimsical in its own right, so applying Anderson’s twee aesthetic isn’t enough of a change for Wonderful company truly stand out.
3. Wes Anderson’s Avengers from the 1980s
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You’d think to pair Wes Anderson’s unique indie style with a populist franchise like the Avengers it wouldn’t work but these series of images he created Twitter user digiguru are surprisingly inventive and true to their comic source. It’s actually a good thing that they don’t look anything like their MCU counterparts because that would probably leave more room for error and bizarre similarities to be used on characters that don’t suit them. Can you imagine Bill Murray as Chris Hemsworth’s Thor? Come to think of it, don’t.
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Although the creator of this image considers The Avengers from the 80s, are far more faithful to the 1960s incarnation, bringing the pop sensibility of original artist Jack Kirby. While it may seem ridiculous that Captain America and Ant-Man are wearing oversized helmets, it’s actually pretty true to the Silver Age incarnations. Iron Man’s technology looks period correct, and Ant-Man’s bizarre face here actually works to simulate a physical human/ant mutation. Yes, the Hulk looks too plastic and immobile, and a few faces are horribly distorted, which really shouldn’t be, but for what it is, The Avengers from the 80s uses Anderson’s aesthetic quite successfully and creates something charmingly retrograde.
Note: It is not clear which AI generator the person used to create these images.
2. Wes Anderson’s Avatar/Pandora’s Peculiar Expedition
Avatar by Wes Anderson | An unusual Pandora expedition
Despite producing two of the highest-grossing films of all time, The Avatar the franchise doesn’t really have any clear images or characters that set it apart from all the other sci-fi worlds. That’s why Wes Anderson from Curious Refuge Avatar parody, An unusual Pandora expeditionit works so well.
It’s one of the few parodies that improves on the original source material by making the character designs amazing and the world of Pandora more alien and interesting to explore. Applying Anderson’s usual setup to this Avatar, however, leaves much to be desired. No one really works (does anyone want to see Bill Murray in blue body paint?) except, you guessed it, Willem Dafoe, who’s been cast in the heavy-hitting role of Colonel Quaritch. The From the inside and Spider man an actor can play anything, it seems, and who am I to argue with that?
1. Wes Anderson’s Star Wars/ Galactic Menagerie
Wes Anderson’s Star Wars Trailer | Galactic Menagerie
Wes Anderson’s Darth Vader in The Galactic Menagerie by Curious Refuge. Image used with permission of the copyright holder
What is most striking about this parody is how it reduces everything Star Wars’ fantastic decorations – his huge and bulky ships, his imposing weapons, his sometimes inflated and overwrought story of fathers, sons and faith – into toy-like objects, making them harmless, childish and playful. Whimsical is a word often used as an insult, but here, I think it’s accurate as the best word of praise for something like this. It’s harmless fun, and when was the last time you could say that about a Star Wars project?
Note: It’s not clear what process Curious Refuge used, but for more information on how they made their Wes Anderson AI trailers, you can visit their homepage.
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