Bottle Rocket and Fargo: How Wes Anderson and the Coen brothers brought ‘peak quirkiness’ to cinemas 25 years ago Ed Power © Provided by The Independent
Two movies, released two weeks apart, but connected by an almost overpowering quirkiness and a fascination with people on the fringes of society. On 21 February 1996 – a quarter of a century ago today – 26-year-old Wes Anderson’s feature length debut,
Bottle Rocket, tip-toed into some 30 cinemas around the United States. Just over a fortnight later, on 8 March, the Coen brothers put out their sixth film and their first mainstream hit,
.
That off-kilter sensibility – a wry laying bare of the absurdities that ripple through everyday life – is one of the qualities uniting the films. And it made them part of a wider 1990s trend. Independent cinema in America, having had its “Smells Like Teen Spirit” breakout moment with Quentin Tarantino’s
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