#the ratcatcher

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Ratcatcher (Wes Anderson, 2023)

[re-dracula]

The shanty from today's episode is now on bandcamp! The lyrics can also be found there.

[taeonysus8]

this is one of my most favourite screencaps

[guhmblr]

Me cooking literally anything since yesterday’s re:Dracula: oh ho! There it goes! Cook it up with salt and cloves!

[nkp1981]

All 4 of Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl short films will be released this month on Netflix:

- "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" - Sep 27

- "The Swan" - Sep 28

- "The Ratcatcher" - Sep 29

- "Poison" - Sep 30

[boxcarwild]

"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" is a 2023 American fantasy short film written, co-produced, and directed by Wes Anderson. The film is the first of a four-part series of shorts adapted from Dahl's short stories, including "The Swan", "The Ratcatcher" and "Poison". Development on the project began in January 2022, with most of the cast signed on. Principal photography took place in London that month.

[nichecomicstournament]

propaganda under the readmore

Tom Raymond: he's marvels first sidekick and the second sidekick ever created and yet remains an absolute z-lister! imagine first having to tell normal people that no, there's another human torch from the 30's who isn't johnny storm who is an android, and then adding that yeah, AND he has a little mini-me sidekick who flew around with him during wwii

Otis flannegan: RAT BOY RAT BOY

[patronsaintofsofas]

Yellow in the middle, Ralph Fiennes on stage left

[dcbinges]

Detective Comics #586 (1988) by John Wagner, Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle

[moviemosaics]

The Rat Catcher

directed by Wes Anderson, 2023

[culture-not-violence]

[rassilon-imprimatur]

“Disturbing lack of empthy.” 

Batman: The Imposter, by Mattson Tomlin, Andrea Sorrentino, and Jordie Bellaire 

[magicoleanders]

when this rat came onscreen he went right up to the tv and stared longingly at it the entire time it was there

[the-ventriloquizt]

[ image: a drawing of Otis Flannegan, AKA the Ratcatcher, wearing a yellow hazmat suit. He is wearing a headband with pair of shiny round mouse ears over the hazmat suit, and the upper half of his face is visible through the green-tinted visor of the gas mask. He has grey gloves and grey steel-toed boots, and is holding a sleeping brown rat with a white spot over an eye and on its butt. His facial expression and stance are neutral, merely observing. The background is a dull grey-green, and he is casting a brown shadow. The shadows are accentuated with a fine checkerboard pattern. ]

more like. haz rat suit.

[the-nightly-film]

October 9th, 2023

Since these are all so short, I decided to finish off the Wes Anderson/Roald Dahl collection on Netflix as one installment this evening. All three of these were as unique as Henry Sugar, though also a great deal darker. While I wouldn't place them under the horror genre I would say these three shorts might be as close as Anderson will ever get.

I think I appreciated the fact that, rather than attempt to fluff up and expand the stories into feature length movies, Anderson just took the time he needed to tell each story. An interesting experiment in both narrative and cinematography that I would call a success. Anderson obviously isn't the first director to experiment with short film, but I love that he created a cinematic collection of short stories while somewhat stepping out of the traditional anthology format.

[sacarats]

I love him, best villain, he's got lots of potential, I need more of Otis

(DC pls respect him stop making him ugly af)