Moonrise Kingdom

A twee, quirky Wes Anderson film. But we repeat ourselves.

Sam and Suzy, 12, make a pact to run away together, he from his scout troop and she from her parents. The film opened the 2012 Festival de Cannes.

Tropes used in Moonrise Kingdom include:

• All of the Other Reindeer: The Khaki Scouts, to Sam
• A Storm Is Coming: The narrator even tells us exactly when.
• Because I Said So: "I can't argue with anything you said, and I don't have to, because you're 12."
• Childhood Marriage Promise: Sam and Suzy, unofficially.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Sam and Suzy.
• Deconstruction: Lampshaded
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Suzy yelps when Sam is the first to penetrate her ... earlobe, with a fishhook.
• Ensemble Cast
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French : Suzy and Sam kiss for the first time after dancing to French singer Françoise Hardy's song, Le Temps de l'amour.
• Everyone Calls Her Social Services: Though she did give her name.
• Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Washes away the sign for the annual performance of Benjamin Britten's Noyes Fludde
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: When Suzy stabs one of the Scouts. It's apparently an epic fight, that results in the motorcycle up a tree and Snoopy getting shot. We see none of it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Lazy-eye, and some of the other Khaki Scouts.
• Production Posse: Though Owen Wilson sat this one out, and Bill Murray has a smaller than usual role (presumably because he was filming Hyde Park On Hudson).
• Title Drop: In Sam's painting at the end.
• Travel Montage: Also, communication.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Throughout. "I need chicken wire and shredded newspaper"
  • In fact, that plan fails only when it's actually described
• Wes Anderson: As trope as much as creator.