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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 adventure comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and starring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. It is a Spiritual Sequel to Anderson's previous film The Royal Tenenbaums.Steve Zissou (Murray) is a world-renowned oceanographer and documentarian, and things are not going well for him. His documentaries have been getting less acclaim. His wife (Huston) — who was once married to his archrival Alistair Hennessey (Goldblum) — refuses to join him on his expeditions anymore. And worst of all, during the filming of his last documentary, his best friend Esteban was eaten by what Zissou describes as a "Jaguar shark", a creature that — given the fact that the only one who has seen it was an apparently momentarily deranged Zissou — few believe exists.Zissou announces that his next documentary will detail his search for the jaguar shark in order to kill it. When he (predictably) can't get funding through the traditional channels, he receives the unexpected help of Ned Plimpton (Wilson), a Kentucky airline pilot who believes Zissou to be his long-lost father. Zissou sets out on the search for the Jaguar shark. His eclectic crew includes Ned; Bill (Bud Cort), a "bond company stooge" sent by Zissou's producer to keep an eye on him; pregnant reporter Jane Winslett-Richardson (Blanchett), who ends up coming between Ned and Zissou; Klaus (Dafoe), a devoted German sailor with severe emotional issues; Pelé (Seu Jorge), a safety expert with a penchant for singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese; and a bunch of unpaid college interns.Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau, to whom the film is dedicated. Besides the jaguar shark, the film contains other fictional sea lifeforms (such as the rhinestone bluefin, crayon ponyfish, wild snow-mongoose, electric jellyfish, and sugar crabs) depicted via stop-motion animation by Henry Selick. |
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Stop Motion: Most of the fantastic species Steve encounters are animated thusly, with the work done by Henry Selick. |
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Anyone Can Die |
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Anyone Can Die: Ned dies very suddenly near the climax of the film, as a result of an accident born from Steve's negligence. |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Steve and Esteban before the latter's death. |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Subverted with Bill the Bond Company Stooge. Steve expects him to follow them around on the expedition interfering and telling him what he can and can't do, but nothing of the sort happens other than briefly complaining when they raid Alistair's laboratory for equipment. He is seen doing his accounting work in one shot. |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Steve is occasionally implied to be this. Steve at one point reveals that no-one on his crew had any previous background in oceanography before joining, so he may not have had it as well. |
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Cock Fight |
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Cock Fight: Played for Laughs in a scene between Steve and Ned when they're fighting over Jane. |
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Seven marine science students from the University of North Alaska (one of whom is later identified as Nico). |
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Team Power Walk |
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Team Power Walk: In the closing scene, the whole crew walks side by side to get back to the boat. |
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The Talk Show with Host Name |
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The Talk Show with Host Name: Not a talk show, but uses the formula. |
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Fix It in Post |
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Fix It in Post: Steve's reaction to some of his more blatant gaffes. Eventually, after falling down a flight of stairs, he announces that he wants to leave it in and "give 'em the reality". |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Belafonte is taken over by pirates because Ned wasn't doing his job (due to having been put on the roster as "Kingsley Zissou"). Pelé is playing his guitar on deck when they get boarded... and doesn't notice until the ladder hits the hull. |
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Bang, Bang, BANG |
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Bang, Bang, BANG: Averted. Despite one of the film's themes being how the unrealistic style of Steve's films comes from his surrealist reality, the guns do sound like they would in real life (as in, high-pitched pops rather than low thooms). |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: During a scene when Zissou insists that his films are documentaries and thus inherently truthful, the camera zooms out enough to show that the ship they're standing in is a constructed set. |
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Everyone Is Bi |
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Everyone Is Bi: Steve implies as much when Hennessey brings up a rationale for his failings as a husband. |
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Bookends |
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Book Ends: In the beginning and in the end, Zissou shows one of his documentary films at a festival, where he meets Werner, the young nephew of Klaus. |
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The Intern |
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The Intern: The crew includes a bunch of unpaid college interns, whom the entire crew treats like crap and are forced to do menial jobs and loot one of Hennessey's research stations. They finally have enough and quit after the pirate attack, which Steve responds to by giving them all "Incomplete" in their evaluation (seeing as he doesn't want to pass them but doesn't want them to fail, either). The lone holdout eventually becomes a full crew member and gets his name mentioned on film. |
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Translated Cover Version |
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Translated Cover Version: Pelé is always singing David Bowie songs translated to Portuguese. |
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Compensating for Something |
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Compensating for Something: Zissou's strained machismo, promiscuity, and recurring homophobia are heavily implied to be the means with which he hopes to make up for his sterility. |
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Broken Pedestal |
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Broken Pedestal: All of Steve's associates have this towards him to some extent, but it's why Jane's writing a hatchet piece on him as she circuitously blames Zissou for her boss getting her pregnant. |
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Posthumous Character |
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Posthumous Character: Esteban was eaten by the "jaguar shark" before the start of the film. His character only appears in the documentary film showed by Zissou at the festival. |
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National Stereotypes |
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National Stereotypes: Klaus's nephew Werner wears stereotypical German lederhosen in all his scenes. |
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Metafictional Title |
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Metafictional Title: In-Universe, The Life Aquatic is the title of the documentary film by Zissou that is showed at a festival in the beginning. |
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Short Cuts Make Long Delays |
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Short Cuts Make Long Delays: "You wanna pay for the extra gas?" Considering that the ship's fuel was set ablaze after it was boarded by pirates... |
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Medium Blending |
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Medium Blending: Cartoonish stop-motion animation is used to depict many underwater scenes and most of the sea life that appears in the film. |
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Death by Irony |
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Death by Irony: The helicopter that Steve poorly maintains winds up crashing while he and Ned are riding in it. |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner |
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Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "I said... get your ass THE HELL OFF OF MY BOAT!" |
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Sapient Cetaceans |
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Sapient Cetaceans: The concept of hyper-intelligent dolphins is averted. As the dolphins watch Ned get it on with Jane and turn to face each other and "laugh" when Steve walks by the monitors to check again, it's entirely possible they're just screwing with him. They later prove this by leading Eleanor to the rescue mission boat. |
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Amicable Exes |
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Amicable Exes: Eleanor seems to have a better relationship with her ex-husband Hennessey than she does with her current husband Steve. |
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I Just Want to Be Loved |
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I Just Want to Be Loved: Steve's primary reason for letting Ned join his crew is that his supposed son genuinely (and naively) admires him. |
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Mock Cousteau |
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Mock Cousteau: The titular main character. |
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Ruthless Modern Pirates |
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Ruthless Modern Pirates: The pirates Ned refers to as hijackers until Steve corrects him (and reminds him that he was supposed to be on watch). |
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Ms. Fanservice |
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Ms. Fanservice: Anne-Marie spends half of her scenes topless. Depending on your interpretation, Zissou may have left this in his films for that purpose, so this could be stealthily lampshading the concept of fanservice. |
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Five-Token Band |
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Five-Token Band: Team Zissou, as listed in the beginning of the film: Esteban du Plantier Klaus Daimler: "Calm, collected, German." Vikram Ray: "Born on the Ganges." Bobby Ogata Renzo Pietro Vladimir Wolodarsky Anne-Marie Sakowitz Pelé dos Santos Eleanor Zissou Seven marine science students from the University of North Alaska (one of whom is later identified as Nico). |
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JerkassWithAHeartOfGold |
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Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Steve, definitely. |
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Precision F-Strike |
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Precision F-Strike: This scene between Steve and Jane: Also: |
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Gentleman Adventurer |
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Gentleman Adventurer: The image Alistair and Steve try to foster through their films. Although Alistair's not much of an adventurer and Steve's hardly a gentleman. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Near the end, the team runs through a pond, and only Steve gets covered in leeches. The exact opposite of what happens in Ghostbusters, with everyone but Venkman covered in marshmallow. The closing credits are a shout-out to the closing credit sequence of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, which co-starred Jeff Goldblum. (Pointed up by the fact that Alistair is the last character to join the march.) |
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Gene Hunting |
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Gene Hunting: Ned Plimpton believes that Steve is his father. It is later revealed that Steve is sterile, but in the meantime, both have become as close as father and son. |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Most members of Team Zissou. |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After unsuccessfully trying to dissuade Steve from going on his hunt for the Jaguar Shark (which she believes, rightfully, will go wrong), Eleanor opts to leave the crew rather than be a part of the disaster that will ensue. |
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Famous-Named Foreigner |
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Famous-Named Foreigner: Seu Jorge's character being named Pelé dos Santos sounds like a big joke to any Brazilian, being a reference to the world's greatest soccer player. |
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Cover Drop |
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Cover Drop: The exact scene depicted on the poster above is in the film (minus Ned, who is put where Pelé was in the actual scene). |
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Expy Coexistence |
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Expy Coexistence: Steve is a blatant Mock Cousteau, but a comment from Steve establishes that Cousteau does exist in the universe of the film, as a rival to Steve. |
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Percussive Maintenance |
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Percussive Maintenance: On the last instance of the lights going off, Steve hits a wall and they come back on. |
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The Oner |
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The Oner: The film likes to follow the characters over the multi-stage set figuring the ship as they walk out from one room to the other, all in a single shot. |
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One-Steve Limit |
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One-Steve Limit: Quite literally. Esteban is the Spanish form of Stephen, meaning the two friends had the same name. |
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Bad "Bad Acting" |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Steve's the only halfway decent actor among his crew. |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis |
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Sitcom Archnemesis: Early on, Steve refers to Hennessey as his "nemesis", most likely out of jealousy that the latter is richer, more handsome and more successful. |
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Fanservice Extra |
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Fanservice Extra: Anne-Marie, the script-writer who is frequently seen topless and who makes little contribution to the plot. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: The ship's electricity shutting down without warning, showing that it is overall in a poor shape. |
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Innocently Insensitive |
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Innocently Insensitive: Having been raised by one who he very much loved, Ned compliments Jane that she would be a very good single mother, not understanding that she didn't want to raise her child alone. |
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