Wes Anderson’s stylish characters have a varied range of intelligence levels. Some of his characters are really dim, like a wannabe criminal who locks himself out of the getaway van during the big heist, and some of them are geniuses, like a child prodigy playwright who won the respect of theater snobs before she left school.
In Anderson’s movies, the children tend to be smarter and more mature than the adults, like Anthony’s perceptive little sister in the director’s debut feature Bottle Rocket. Some of Anderson’s dumber characters are his most endearing, while the characters with high IQs can sometimes come off as cold.
10 Dignan (Bottle Rocket)
Dignan, the wannabe career criminal in Anderson’s directorial debut Bottle Rocket, is lovable and he’s certainly ambitious, but he’s also very dim.
He ends up serving a 24-month prison sentence due to his poorly planned crime spree. In the hilarious final heist sequence, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
9 Max Fischer (Rushmore)
In the opening scene of Rushmore, Rushmore Academy’s headmaster Dr. Nelson Guggenheim declares Max Fischer to be one of the worst students in the school. He even ends up kicking him out and sending him to a public school.
Still, Max is smart enough to write and direct professional-grade plays in his school auditorium. His problem is that he’s wholeheartedly dedicated to his extracurricular activities but barely invested in his academic studies.
8 Jane Winslett-Richardson (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou)
Jane Winslett-Richardson is the pregnant reporter who profiles Steve in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. She’s not afraid to ask difficult questions to her interview subjects, much to Steve’s chagrin.
Over the course of the movie, both Steve and Ned fall for Jane and she ends up entering into an affair with the latter, which comes out when pirates board the boat.
7 Sam Shakusky (Moonrise Kingdom)
The crux of Moonrise Kingdom is the star-crossed love story between Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop, who have to run away from Khaki Scout camp and home, respectively, to spend some time together.
While Sam and Suzy are both shown to be introverts, they’re also depicted as being surprisingly smart and mature considering their young age.
6 Suzy Bishop (Moonrise Kingdom)
Though Sam and Suzy are both geniuses, Suzy is arguably slightly smarter than Sam because she’s grown up around two lawyers and she seems more well-read.
But it’s a close call, as the movie shows them both to be smart as a whip. Being the two most intelligent kids in their respective schools is part of what brought them together in the first place.
5 Chas Tenenbaum (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Chas Tenenbaum is one of the smartest members of the titular family in The Royal Tenenbaums. He’s a whiz with both math and business strategy, which he used to get rich.
When he was a kid raking in cash hand over fist, his father Royal secretly stole money from him. In the movie, Chas is shown to be distracted from his business prowess by a newfound obsession with safety following his wife’s death.
4 Steve Zissou (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou)
The titular protagonist in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a legendary oceanographer in the mold of Jacques Cousteau. It was Anderson’s childhood admiration of Cousteau that made him want to make a movie about a celebrity oceanographer in the first place.
However, when the movie begins, Steve is being painted as a has-been by the media. Of course, he proves them wrong when he successfully tracks down the jaguar shark and mounts an unexpected career comeback.
3 Miss Cross (Rushmore)
The widow that both Max and Blume naively fall for, Miss Cross is both the most academically and emotionally intelligent character in the movie.
Miss Cross is a first-grade teacher — one of the noblest professions in the world, and it requires a lot of patience and smarts to do it right — who went to Harvard (which Max claims is his safety school after Oxford and the Sorbonne).
2 The Author (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
In the framing narrative of Wes Anderson’s sprawling epic The Grand Budapest Hotel, an aging Zero — the lobby boy who worked under M. Gustave recounts his stories to a renowned writer known only as “The Author.”
The Author says that when a writer is known, they’ll have no shortage of stories because the people will provide them. He’s played as a young man circa 1968 by Jude Law and as an older man by Tom Wilkinson.
1 Margot Tenenbaum (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Margot Tenenbaum, Royal and Etheline’s adopted child, grew up as a child prodigy. Before she left school, she was recognized as one of the sharpest and most masterful playwrights in the world.
She was given a grant to develop her career as a playwright based on a play she wrote in the ninth grade. As she grew up, her talent became stronger and her voice became more refined as she wrote more and more acclaimed work.
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