The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Overview
 
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is an American
United States
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 comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...

 film directed, written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials....

. It is Anderson's fourth feature length film
Film
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, released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004. It was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ...

 and was filmed in and around Naples
Naples
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, Ponza
Ponza
Ponza is the largest of the Italian Pontine Islands archipelago, located 33 km south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It also the name of the commune of the island, a part of the province of Latina in the Lazio region....

, and the Italian Riviera
Italian Riviera
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.

The film stars Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...

 as Steve Zissou, an eccentric oceanographer
Oceanography
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 who sets out to exact revenge on the "Jaguar shark
Shark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....

" that ate his partner Esteban.
Quotations

Do you think this is fake? [points gun at jane]

I'm going to find it and I'm going to destroy it. I don't know how yet, maybe dynamite.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to join me is more than welcome.

Nobody knows what's going to happen. And then we film it. That's the whole concept.

You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?

[to Ogata and Pele] What are you doing? Go to bed, you sons of bitches!

Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.

Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music.

You know, I'd be jealous about you staying at Allie's place, except I always thought he was kind of a closet queer.

That pregnant slut is playing us like a cheap fiddle!

 
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