Detailing Hooey Savvy

f I find a book, a movie or a song to be great it's usually because it's memorable. This hit me the other night as I watched Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. What's memorable in this film?

1) The father-son interplay between Bill Murray and Owen Wilson

2) The red hats

3) The Zissou Adidas sneakers

4) Seu Jorge covering David Bowie songs in Portuguese

5) The Jaguar Shark

6) "Staralfur," the Sigur Ros song that introduces the Jaguar Shark

7) The Bond Company Stooge

8) The written correspondence between Murray and Wilson

9) Wilson's accent (never mind the moustache)

10) The unpaid interns

And the list goes on. Why? Because Anderson gave his characters detail and those details made them memorable. The importance of being memorable struck me because I know, in its present form, Hooey Savvy is not memorable. It has its moments, but it needs to be more consistent. Making it memorable is the goal of the fourth round of edits which starts tomorrow and should conclude next week.