Wes Anderson Talks 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Filming In Rhode Island

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“I tried to be a boy scout, but it didn’t click.’’

That’s Wes Anderson talking about the genesis of his new movie, “Moonrise Kingdom,’’ opening here on Friday. That’s also Wes Anderson talking about his distance from the rest of the world. In seven feature films over the course of 16 years, the 43-year-old writer-director has created a singular body of work that divides moviegoers into camps labeled Love Him and Hate Him and that sketch out a mournful sense of post-Salinger alienation in whimsically precise strokes. “Rushmore’’ (1998) made his name, “The Royal Tenenbaums’’ (2001) brought him a mass audience (sort of — with $52 million in grosses, it remains his biggest commercial success), while “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou’’ (2004) and “The Darjeeling Limited’’ (2007) brought concerns that precision whimsy can only go so far. The 2009 stop-motion family film “The Fantastic Mr. Fox’’ was a lovely film that didn’t resolve the issue of whether Anderson could speak to an audience beyond committed Wes-ophiles. The entire entry on Anderson in critic David Thomson’s 2004 edition of “The New Biographical Dictionary of Film’’ reads: “Watch this space. What does that mean? That he might be something one day.’’

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