What is understood for the first time after visualizing regulars actor Wes Anderson's movie by network analysis?

by Rogelio A. Galaviz C.

Speaking of Wes Anderson, he oversees many films with a beautiful color sense, unified screen expression, unique atmosphere, such as " Grand Budapest hotel " " Inugashima ". It is also known that such director Anderson has "a regular actor appearing repeatedly", and as a result of analyzing the regular actor of Anderson director's work using Fusion Tables , which is a database provided by Google, the director's preference It is obvious.

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If you are familiar with Anderson's director's movie, you probably think that "Oh, this actor has appeared in the previous work as well". Professor Steve Bryher and Associate Professor Matthew Gold of New York City University Graduate School Center wanted to visualize the regular actors of such Anderson's film using network analysis.

In conducting this network analysis, it is necessary to prepare the original data to be analyzed first, that is, the actor actor's actor of Anderson director's work. Fortunately, because IMDb has released an actor list for each movie, Mr. Briar said that preparations were completed in advance by simply copying the list of actors from IMDB and pasting them on Google spreadsheets .

Mr. Briar used Visual Fusion Tables to visualize the original data prepared in this way. Rather than displaying each actor as a single body, I tried to make an actor acting as a map linked to the movie, and it turned out to be a beautiful image as if the fireworks were opened around the cast film. A little big circle is Anderson 's movie, and the line extending from that circle extends to a small circle representing an actor who appeared in the movie. Mr. Briar said that he decided to further try visualization in this direction.

Mr. Briar said that it filtered so that only "regular actor" who appeared several times in Anderson director's movie was displayed next. Also, the actor is a blue dot, and the movie changes the setting as indicated by a yellow dot, a more intuitive map is displayed, making it easier to examine the relationship between a regular actor and a movie. Actors who appeared in Anderson director several times totaled 40 people.

Looking at this map, three early Anderson directors such as " Anthony's Happy Motel (Original title is" Bottle Rocket ")," Genius Max's World (Original title: "Rushmore") "and" The Royal Tenenbaums " , " the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (original title" the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ")," " the Darjeeling Limited ," " Fantastic Mr.FOX such as" in the middle the following three works, and " Moonrise Kingdom ," "Grand Budapest Hotel "" Inugajima "in recent years are arranged in the lower right.

Since the movie is outdated from the left, the actors indicated by the blue dot on the lower left of the map mean that they were only appearing in the early Anderson director's movies. Likewise, it turns out that the blue dot on the lower right appears only in recent works, and the blue dot in the center of the map appears to have consistently appeared in Wes Anderson directorial works of various times It is.

Among them, Bill Murray, which is located in the center of the map, has appeared in so many Anderson director movies, and indeed appears in eight works except "Anthony's Happy Motel" out of nine films directed by Anderson I will. This figure picked up and visualized Bill · Murray is this.

Also, looking at Tilda Swinton located at the right end of the map, it appears in all three recent works , and like the Edward Norton and Harvey Keitel , he likes the recent Anderson coach I understand this. The images picked up by Tilda Swinton are as follows.

Also, Mr. Briar and others are interested in that Eric Chase Anderson , who is a brother of Anderson's director and illustrator, has actually appeared in four movies. "This discovery would not be easy to come up with, unless you visualized the data," Briar says.

Mr. Briar analyzed regular movie actor Anderson's film about each movie. Among the actors who appeared in Anderson 's first work' The World of Tensai Max ', there were eight actors who appeared in other works since then.

Meanwhile, it seems that 22 regular actors who appeared in "Grand Budapest hotel" appointed so many regular actors.

Briar and others think that we can create maps about other film director, movie series, actors related to various awards etc. using the network analysis method used this time. In addition, Mr. Briar said that combining machine learning will analyze the preferences of film directors and developments such as "predicting actors that this director is likely to appoint to the next movie".

For Anderson's work analysis data used by Briar and others this time, you can refer to it here .