Random Blogger Snaps Pic from Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and this photo from the set of Wes Anderson’s next flick Darjeeling Limited tells me the only thing I really need to know about it: that it’s going to be pretty damn hilarious! Imagine how surprised you’d be if you were travelling through Rajasthan, India and just happened to stumble across Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson, along with Wes Anderson himself, all working on a movie! Well that’s exactly what happened to a student named Jesse Chappelle, who then posted about the encounter on his blog, and somehow Brendon from film ick managed to find it (at which point JoBlo.com also picked up on the story). Amazing. Darjeeling Limited is about 3 brothers who are on a trip through India… and that’s all anyone really seems to know about it right now. Can’t wait to see or hear more.
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I haven’t seen any of Wes Anderson’s movies but this honestly sounds like Little Miss Sunshine 2.
Sideways already did it.
That being said, I think that Adrien Brody looks pretty funny in that picture.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006Neither Little Miss Sunshine or Sideways had 3 brothers on a trip through India so I don’t see what else would make you draw that comparison.
Posted by Sean on December 14th, 2006I think he’s referring to the fact that they’re both movies about a road trip. But contrary to popular belief, Little Miss Sunshine was NOT the first road trip movie. I’ve always felt that it was a rip off of Planes, Trains and Automobiles myself.
Posted by Jay C. on December 14th, 2006Well.. Maybe I’m being a little too jaded.
I guess that you could just call them genre movies like that. But I thought Sideways was awesome, and these movies just seem to be gunning for the same sort of quirky character piece, and it’s more about that than the actual road tripping aspect of it. Which I guess may not be anything new with these movies, but you can’t deny that Sideways set a benchmark, and I thought LMS was going for that same kind of feeling.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006What benchmark did Sideways set?
Posted by Jay C. on December 14th, 2006A benchmark of very high quality.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006In film itself? Or in the ‘road trip genre’?
Posted by Jay C. on December 14th, 2006In the genre… My original comparison was based on Sideways being the originator of these quirky road-trip movies coming out now, which I admit not having researched, and may not be an entirely accurate assumption. But it won an oscar, and a couple of years later more quirky character-focused road movies are coming out.
It’s an excellent movie as well. It transcends the genre. But it would be hard saying it set a benchmark in film in general, because that would make it seem like every movie could be compared to it, which isn’t the case. But all road movies can be compared to it I think, at least it’s the movie I usually hold them up against.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006Well there’s been many critically acclaimed road trip films throughout the years. (Easy Rider?) Also, if you’re saying this is the ‘road trip genre’, how can darjeeling be a rip off of little miss sunshine? That’s like saying alien is a rip off of star trek because they’re both science fiction.
Posted by Jay C. on December 14th, 2006I suppose that’s a good point. I didn’t necessarily mean it was a blatant rip-off though, more like something that falls a little too close to it.
Alien and Star Trek may both be science fiction but they are very different in every other aspect. Alien is more of a horror movie, and Star Trek is not. I can’t really pick a genre for the Trek movies that I have seen (the only Trek-iverse I have seen is TNG).
These are both road movies, but also focused on quirky character interaction etc. Definitely in the same ballpark as the aforementioned movies. You can’t deny that they seem more similar than Alien and Star Trek at least. I am not saying this is going to suck in any way though. I haven’t seen any of Wes Anderson’s movies, and like I said before I do think that Adrien Brody looks funny.
Like I said I am not very submersed in the road movie genre, but there had been plenty of critically acclaimed roman epics before Gladiator, but it was still the reason that all the following years had way more swords’n’sandals movies than before.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006I’m not sure that science fiction qualifies as a genre. It’s more of a setting. It’s a period piece.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006Science Fiction isn’t a genre?
I just find it amazing that you can stretch your arguement to say that these two movies (one of which we pretty much know nothing about, not to mention never having seen a Wes Anderson movie…) are so much alike. There is a subtle thing called ‘tone’ which can make two movies about the same subject COMPLETELY different. To say that this seems like Little Miss Sunshine 2 is to say that Little Miss Sunshine seems like Easy Rider 2, Sideways 2, Planes Trains & Automobiles 2, Roadtrip 2, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2, National Lampoons Vacation 2…and so on and so on. All VERY different movies that deal with the same general idea. A road trip.
Posted by Jay C. on December 14th, 2006If you watch a few of Wes Anderson’s movies you’d probably be more likely to say that the quirky character stuff is just Wes Anderson’s style, rather than a ripoff of Little Miss Sunshine or Sideways. If anything, he started the whole current trend of quirky character-driven comedies.
Posted by Sean on December 14th, 2006The ‘tone’ in that picture reminds me of LMS.
Yeah I’m not sure science fiction is a genre… It’s certainly distinct, but it’s more of a setting. I think of it more as a period piece like I said before… At least that’s sci-fi is best. Sure there are plenty of movies that are about the sci-fi, about the spaceships and the laserguns etc. But stuff like Star Trek and Alien isn’t really about the science. Alien and The Thing are more similar than Alien and Star Trek, even though The Thing would be in another ‘genre’, since it’s not science fiction.
Posted by Henrik on December 14th, 2006Does anyone know exactly WHY The Darjeeling Limited has been released so sporadically? Also, whose decision was it to distribute the film this way?
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