I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I threw out the idea for Wes Anderson-themed Photoshops for this week. It was just a thing that popped into my head, probably because — like David Foster Wallace and the San Antonio Spurs — I have bought into Wes Anderson more or less completely. Maybe also because — inasmuch as Photoshops have any kind of magic, which is debatable — there seems to be a kind of perfect synergy between movies (especially movie posters) and the heads of basketball players. Movie posters often seem bent on evoking either perfect stillness, mysterious tension or raucous action. Putting a basketball player into them often works in the kind of way that those promos for blockbuster films during the Finals want to but rarely can. By simultaneously connecting and displacing the elements of basketball and film, you get some weird third element, a juxtaposition you can flip around in your head and think about from different angles.

Or, at least, that’s how I justified spending way too much time on The Royal TenenBrons.