 |
|||
 |
 |
||
 | |||
 | |||||||||||
|
|
Starring Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson. ![[Photo]](/photos/bottlerocket1.jpg) Everyone's thought about being a thief or a bank robber at one point in time. It might be as you're waiting in line at the bank, behind a line of eighteen people cashing in their coins. You look up at the security cameras and envision cutting the optical wires, or tripping the power source, while having two other members of your team handling crowd control and two others hitting the vault. Now imagine you're an aspiring criminal and you really suck. Welcome to Bottle Rocket. Written by star Owen Wilson and director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket is the tale of a wannabe thief, Dignan, who is played by Wilson, and his two loser lackey buddies, Anthony and Bob, who begrudgingly go along with Dignan's criminal plans so Dignan won't torment or make fun of them. What was so novel about this film was the way in which the characters have created their own sort of fantasy world, hardly ever interacting with `normal' society. Dignan has a 75 year thieving career plan for the trio--written by hand in a blue spiral notebook--highlighting what scores they should be looking The fun in Bottle Rocket doesn't come with tense robbery action and suspense, as was the case with Heat and Thief, but in watching three completely different and erratic characters playing off one another for two hours. Dignan, Anthony, and Bob, despite their desire to be felons, are almost totally naive, once allowing their set-up man, James Caan, to steal the entire contents of Bob's house while on a job that Caan himself had masterminded. They are picked on, manipulated, and without a clue, but with quirkiness enough to capture your heart. Wilson and Anderson's script is a tight, genuinely original story, that always manages to find a way to keep a positive spin on everything that's happening. Screening Bottle Rocket was a pleasant and entertaining experience. And you can take solace in the fact that, contrary to it's initial appearance, this is not Revenge of the Nerds 6: Nerd Find Guns.
|
| |||||
![[Photo]](/photos/bottlerocket2.jpg)
for, and what type of profits they should receive 25, 50, and 75 years down the road. When the boys do eventually rob something, they rob a bookstore. The job done, they scamper into the Texas backwoods to lie low for a period of time in a very cheap hotel... possibly Motel 4. While hiding out, Anthony falls in love with a cleaning woman who doesn't speak English, and Bob takes the gangs' only car to return to town to help his bejailed brother leaving Anthony and Dignan to fend for themselves.