10 Things Wes Anderson Puts In EVERY Movie

Best Example: The Rolling Stones

Music has always played an integral role in Anderson’s films. The usual genre of his soundtracks mostly includes early rock, classic British rock and folk music. As aforementioned, the filmmaker can’t seem to escape repetition which is why a lot of his films are composed by Mark Mothersbaugh and Alexandre Desplat.

Specifically, Wes Anderson is extremely fond of The Rolling Stones and often uses their music for his films. Bottle Rocket featured ‘2000 Year Man’, Rushmore used ‘I Am Waiting’, The Royal Tenenbaums had TWO of the rock bands songs - ‘She Smiled Sweetly’ and ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and The Darjeeling Limit featured ‘Play with fire’. Even the stop-motion adaptation Fantastic Mr Fox had The Rolling Stones ‘Street Fighting Man’ on its soundtrack.

As well as The Rollings Stones, the music of The Kinks, The Beatles, The Clash, The Who and David Bowie has also been prominently included amongst his works.

The one movie to completely steer away from pop music and stay within its own contemporaries was The Grand Budapest Hotel which had more of an authentic Russian folk-influenced score with the use of a balalaika.