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[edit] The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

by Amrita

The movie is quite unpredictable as it looks quite like a documentary, some times a drama and some times a comedy movie. It feels like 'The Old Man and The Sea ' has come alive. If Ernest Hemmingway would have had a look at this film, he would be feeling elated because the Psyche he was dealing with in all his novels,the very idea of seeing emotions in flesh and blood was his idea of the world.

After seeing the movie its difficult to decide which genre of movie it falls into.Its raw quality is its selling point. It was the most near to real life situations. As said by Jane in the beginning of the movie that his documentaries felt like fake is quite true if one sees the clips of the documentary which he makes after the 'Jaguar Shark' kills his friend Esteban and the ' rubber tide ' which he assumes occurs due to a large number of jelly fish that have been washed on to the island and still does not know(being an experienced oceanographer) what makes them glow shows and makes us question whether or not his documentaries are real or not .

Next question which arises in one's mind is whether or not Ned is his son. because none of them is sure and in still in the chopper Steve shows Ned the letter Ned had written when he was 12 years old.

But his acceptance of Ned as his son and approval of the article written about him by Jane shows the human he is. In many of the events of the movie Steve is shown to have extra ordinary compassion towards everything :the cat, the dog(the pirates's dog whom he named 'Cody') and Hennesey(ex- husband of his wife 'Eleanor') and the bond company Stooge , everything shows how real and compassionate this character is. He has this very beautifully balanced gray psyche.

Another character ,Ned played by Owen Wilson is a true characterisation of a broken man who is searching His own existence and does not mind to follow his heart when he says to join the Zissou crew, the last words were not about complaining about his life or thinking about his life he aws just thinking like a airline pilot which shows how much he loved his Job.

His taking up a role in zissou team just to be near his assumed Dad showed how much he was desperate for a family,his dad ,his mum whio had died of Ovarian cancer.His love for his mum is also shown in the beginning when he tries to hear the novel recitations of Jane o her unborn child.

Overall the film is an 'A' grade movie and it really feels good when such good screenplay in sync with direction is beautifully painted .Given any acting school student this is by far the most delicately woven .It also reminds one of the Fountainhead.The movie is like the buildings of Henry Cameron- raw and basic so real that it stirs the soul inside you. Some where it touches you so deeply that you are left with a sweet memory of great performances.

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[edit] MobyDick

I agree with the previous author who brought up Moby dick. There are many references. The red school of fish are like the birds that follow Moby Dick. Ned is a son who dies in the course of the journey. The Reporter is Starbuck. DeFoe is Flask. Its a voyage for revenge against a fish for god's sake!

why will the distributor section not work?--El Slameron 00:42, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC) more editing is definitely needed

It wasn't working because the previous line did not end with a | character. Went ahead and fixed that. --67.36.24.175 03:47, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] seahorse

i cant remember the names of the Klaus's nephew (if he is his nephew) or the species of seahorse at the beginning of the film. anyone who can please edit the caption of the new photo in the trivia section. --El Slameron 23:38, August 1, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] No critical review

There`s no critical review of this film. So this article is crearly POV. I will nor write my own POV as i went searching the Wikipedia when i could not believe such great actors acting in a film i could not ¿Understand?.

- What are you saying? --69.84.100.212 23:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rebel Rebel...

Is actually a song from the album Diamond Dogs, not Ziggy Stardust nor Hunky Dory as explained by the original author. Hate to be nit-picky.

[edit] Song title

I made a small change by correcting the name of the Sigur Rós song from Stralfur to Starálfur.

[edit] Moby Dick

Umm, i'm surprised there is no mention of the story line similarities to Melville's novel. if noone minds, by repying to this post, i'll add it. i'll check back in a couple of weeks.

[edit] Redundant Link

I removed the link on the name "Steve Zissou" as it just linked back to the very same article. --Phl3djo 16:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia Section: utterly out of control

The trivia section in this article is longer than the article itself. I will be rewriting (read: removing) it shortly. If there's anything there you want to save, I suggest you rewrite it in encyclopedic form, in paragraphs of text rather than bullets. Soon. Nandesuka 21:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I think rather than getting rid of it it should just be tapered down to what matters. I got rid of a bunch of trivial stuff, like the names of characters and such. Ww.ellis 00:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I've made an attempt to organize the trivia section as it existed upon my arrival. This is what we have to deal with:
"The scene during the credits... inspired by the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai...." I moved to the existing Film references section. It seems a particularly bizarre reference, and a description of the scene to which it refers would be helpful.
I created a Real-world references section for trivia on references within the film to the outside world, which currently includes the Coppola family reference and three references to the names of real-world people.
The remaining trivia can be subdivided as follows: two "used in the film" bits (the ship and the orca); one World Records-style bit of trivia (the shark puppet's size); an explanation of Hydrogen Psychosis, which seems to be somewhat important to the article (see further down this talk page); and two references from the real world to the movie.
I did not add or significantly edit any of these points, since there seems to be so much venom around towards the worth of trivia points that I'm afraid they may be deleted any way. -AndromedaRoach 06:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Relevant?

For some reason, _all_ the wild animals in the movie are computer-generated. I can think of several different motives for this to have been made so, but it strikes me as relevant, and not trivial.

All the wild animals are ficticious species. Anderson obviously wanted this to have a deliberately unrealistic feel to it. RossyG 17:19, 18 May 2006 (UTC) 17:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

  • He mentions this in the comments on the DVD -- 201.78.233.162 14:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hydrogen psychosis

the page Hydrogen psychosis redirects here, but there is no explaination on this page of the term. according to a google search of define:Hydrogen Psychosis, there used to be a servicable definition on the Hydrogen psychosis page. what was the reason for this redirect?

"Hydrogen psychosis" is a condition invented by Baumbach and Anderson for this movie. There was an article on it, but it was just a very short stub. Hence the redirect, I'm guessing.Bjones 04:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
From the history of the old 'hydrogen psychosis' page I've added a shortened definition of it to the trivia section. I'm not entirely sure this is appropriate, but I also feel there needs to be some reference to it if the original article is a redirect. 24.14.187.193 21:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] That one song

Whats the song played during the end of the film, its in the scene with the Jaguar shark. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerath13 (talk • contribs)

It is Starálfur from Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun. --18 hours 23:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lifeaquaticposter.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Life aquatic seahorse.jpg

Image:Life aquatic seahorse.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Winslett-Richardson

Is there any documented evidence of the character's surname coming from the two actresses? There's no apparent connection between these actresses except that they're all British. Explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.140.155 (talk) 23:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Vandalism

I removed this vandalism, which is factually incorrect and just plain nonsense:

The Life Aquatic remained misunderstood for some time after its release due to the subtle nature of its humour, based around the concept of a poorly written script making it into full screen production. Known widely as 'quirky' and an 'acquired taste', the film's hysterical comedic content becomes apparent to those viewers who realised the basic premise of how funny it might be to see an awfully written screenplay actually being made into a film, and the spectacle of major Hollywood stars like Bill Murray acting out such lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.40.130 (talk) 16:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guns not Glocks

The filming details are glaringly incorrect to anyone with more than a basic knowledge of firearms. Steve uses a Glock to threaten Jane, and he may have holstered it a few times, but the crew's pistols in the firefight scenes appear to be Beretta 92 models. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.110.3.40 (talk) 00:24, 7 May 2008 (UTC)