Wes Anderson’s Star Wars reference

Nestled in the midst of Matt Zoller Seitz’s video essay on Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is this bombshell: the movie contains a Star Wars reference no one seems to have noticed. Seitz synced the scenes for us:

There have to be others, right? Many of Anderson’s films end with all of the characters gathered together like at the medals ceremony in Episode IV…someone even synced up the end of the movie with the closing credits music from Zissou and it works really well:

And of course, there’s Conan O’Brien’s take on what a Star Wars movie directed by Anderson might look like.

• Matt Zoller Seitz
• movies
• Star Wars
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• video
• Wes Anderson