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Wes Anderson's THE DARJEELING LIMITED trailer pulls into Glorious Quicktime!
Hey folks, Harry here... I'm on the 101 headed up to Santa Cruz for the amazing LOST BOYS screening tonight on the Boardwalk - but as Yoko and I drive, I'll be updating and writing. First up... Wes Anderson's trailer for THE DARJEELING LIMITED - the latest hopefully brilliant work of Wes Anderson. Check this shit out - looks fantastic!
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looks great
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Saw the trailer last night. Looks awesome
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I joke, it looks like shit.
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the humor, tone and music all fit andersons style, which i couldnt be happier about. while i am a huge fan of the hilarious life aquatic, it is nice to see that maybe anderson has toned down the quirkiness a tad with this one, get back to more of a tenembaums drama/comedy blend.
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Man thats cool.
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thanks for catching up Aint It Cool!
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first, this movie kind of flew under the radar because we were all thinking that Wes Anderson was going to do that "Fantastic Mr. Fox", so I am esctatic that it is coming out in just a few months. Secondly, I disliked the life aquatic, I only saw it once. Third, I think that movie "Charlie Bartlett" is a ripoff of Rushmore.
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Can't wait - Wilson, Schwartzman and Brody look awesome in this. Wes Anderson's the man.
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He HAS to be. It's in India for crying out loud! IMDB says he's not.
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well...I like THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS a lot. But somehow the story and characters of LIFE AQUATIC weren't that accessible to me, which showed me that Anderson's good filmmaking actually consists of more than just stunning visuals. However, this trailer doesn't do much for me. Really. I mean, there are some great images in it and I'm actually looking forward to the film but...somehow my worries about the story aren't eased by this little montage...maybe I have to watch it again...
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You're an idiot.
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That IRON MAN ad is so wasted on this site....
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Music. You take away those happy light songs and you're left with boring as hell shit.
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Don't disparage the man who was quoted by Sylvester Stallone himself during the Rocky Balboa Q&A. Granted, Sly was probably oozing steroids out of his pores at the time but, still...
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What did I say? That I didn't like the Life Aquatic? I didn't. Nothing idiotic there. That Charlie Bartlett looks like a ripoff of Rushmore? Let's see, smart aleck kid that wears a blazer in high school. Humm. How about it "flying under the radar?". Nope, that's not idiotic, because the Fantastic Mr. Fox was plagued with production delays and it was reported to be the next movie after the Life Aquatic. Kumar being in it? Well, he's been in every one so far, and it takes place in his home country. Taking your post seriously? Okay you got me there. that might have been slightly idiotic.
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...Ok, I'm just gonna buy you a beer now. I feel like I just got schooled.
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I watched Bottle Rocket last night...damn is that a funny movie.
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I think this will be a great adventure movie as I am guessing a lot of it takes place during the train ride but, and I know this is sooo trivial, it feels like the same thing as LA because the posters look too much alike with the yellow and blue. kepp the font but just make it orange instead of blue to give it a more India-like quality...(I realize how trite that sounds but it is just what comes to mind).
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I already stated why in another thread when this was first posted.
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made me laugh.
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I'm really looking forward to this, cuz Life Aquatic left me disappointed and I still haven't taken a great liking to it.
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and since both of my parents are indian, this trailer definately brings back some major memories. However, sometimes white literature like that of EM Forester, and Rudyard Kipling, can make india look too quirky, without really giving any social depth to the countries problems, or even giving the characters any real complexity, kind of like the "magic nigger" phenomena. Whatever, it looks funny, Just remember INDIA ISNT A RIDE FOR YOU WESTERNERS TO GO SMOKE DOPE AND ESCAPE SOCIETY. THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD MEET YOU FACE TO FACE, DON'T IGNORE THEM.
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anyone feel like going to India?
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Yes, I love Wes Anderson and his usual crew but Natalie Portman has a big role in the film and she's nowhere to be found in the trailer. Too early for Portman?
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does anyone want icen9ne's grandmas house?
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the "to go" because im HIGH AS SHIT
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It way grows on you. Like all of Wes' films.Can't wait for this.
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2 years is FAAAARRRRRR to long to wait for a new Wes Anderson film.
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Thank God. I've seen Bottle Rocket 3 times and hated it every time. His other films were hits right off the bat for me. Looking forward to this one.
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I don't even need to guess. I know this will be great. thanks, anderson
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The funniest part to me is the trailers. They are amazing, but inevitably when I go see them, they are just....dry. reallllly dry.
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is one of our greatest american directors. i cant believe people actually dont like some of his stuff. i cant wait for this, he can do no wrong.
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the kinks?
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does anyone wanna hear a condemning political diatribe on a fanboy talkback? Me neither!
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Like his films or not, enjoy them or not, I can't think of many directs that have such a distinct style. Within frames of his images, people are concious that it's a wes anderson film. His films grow on people. I didn't care for The Life Aquatic until watching it several times and listening to the commentary several times. Of course there is the argument that a film shouldn't require multiple viewings in order to stack up - but his talent is undeniable. and his ear for music outstanding. anyone have $2500 they can lend me for tix to opening night New York Film Fest? If not, i'll be there on opening night in wide release.
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whoever you are who re-named your sig a fucking spoiler for some of us who maybe don't read as fast as you, thanks a lot.
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this film looks twee, pompous and arrogant. maybe if anderson directed something different i would want to see his work, but he is the very definition of a one-trick pony, and his trick played out several years ago. and maybe political diatribes are annoying - ok, strike that, no maybe about it - but that dude is correct, the western idea of india is still boing bong wafting incense kooky bollywood mysterioso shit. the first dead body i ever saw lying in the street was in mumbai. it is a complex, terrible, beautiful place.
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what are you talking about?
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India is a land of extremes. And I really don't mind Spielberg or Wes Anderson making a big cartoon of the place, but there has to be some balance. There are serious fucking problems there, it is really disturbing. I guess that is why Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair make such serious films, it takes one to know one.
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iwontwin, this sounds very trite but my life before india and my life after are 2 different things. and that's just me being selfish about my own experiences - i can imagine, culturally, it must be a thousandfold experience if you're from there or your family is.
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that jerky who re-named himself an HP spoiler! i've been avoiding even reading the guardian for the last 4 days because i haven't finished the book and i'm afraid i'm going to stumble across some big-assed spoiler...aaaaand that dude went and did it. spoiled it. good job. i realize i'm not a 12 year old kid but if i wanted my book spoiled, i woulda turned to the last page when i bought it.
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you don't know for sure if it's a spoiler. maybe it's a joke, maybe it's not. you only know if it's not if someone else backs it up. and if it's not, play pretend, and hope for the best. just sayin'.
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All of his movies. Every damned one. Even that American Express ad. You may think he is a "one trick pony" (I think that's total bullshit, by the way) but I love the trick. He puts more good stuff in one frame of his movies than most directors do in their entire career. "Dry"? Perhaps. But give me deadpan and dry over Adam Sandler's drunk fucking retardo frat boy any day of the week. Anderson is the best American working today. Sorry, Marty, but that's the way it goes. If you don't like it, too bad.
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The use of the kinks?
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anderson may be skilled - and i still think he's got one trick up his sleeve, note he has never tried (or bothered?) to make any film that deviates in tone or storytelling method from all his other films, including the excellent 'bottle rocket' - but he IS NOT BETTER AT DIRECTING THAN MARTIN SCORSESE. i gotta stand up to you on that one, jimmy. he's certainly better than a lot of people out there clogging up film canisters with their dogshit, but he is not better than the man who directed 'taxi driver', 'raging bull' and 'goodfellas'.
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i will pretend it's not true. now i have to get back to work so i can finish early so i can finish that goddamned book tonight and find out whether or not i should put a jihad on that dude for spoiling it. ta!
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enough already. time to make a real movie, Wes, not some hyper-whimsical, family allegory, where everyone looks sad and tries to somehow connect. production design and cool music does not a movie make. it worked a couple times. yes you're talented, yes you're an auteur, but can we stretch our boundaries a bit here?
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I love use of the Kinks' "Lola/Powerman" tunes. Strangers and This Time Tomorrow are transporting.
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Typically Hindus don't allow photography, or video in places like that...I wonder how wes anderson convinced them.
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He's Wes TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION Anderson.
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He's fantastic. I love Rushmore and Tenenbaums an insane amount, and I only really like Bottle Rocket and Life Aquatic. Hope Schwartzman's presence here helps things out. It DOES look good though.
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Maybe I should watch Life Aquatic a few more times. I think the movie picks up HUGE after they get the bonds guy, before that, I feel it's kind of dull. Still say PT Anderson is the better of the two.
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Just a fabulous movie. The scene with Dignan running through the warehouse. James Caan. Here's hoping Darjeeling gets a nice fat Criterion release. And remember, for good or for ill, without Wes Anderson, we wouldnt have Luke and Owen Wilson, and thus no Frat Pack or Shanghai movies or million others, Bill Murray - the actor, and a solid Gene Hackman role amongst all the paychecks he's cashed in the last twenty years of crap.
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Does anyone have a bigger version of the poster next to the trailer? I google image searched for it and couldn't find one. Thanks in advance.
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...but being there as a westerner, especially when you're young, is an extremely whimsical and rigorous experience. That is, after you get over the crushing filth and poverty of the cities. Still the funniest, most friendly people I've ever known, even when they're trying to fleece your white rube pockets.
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He doesn't care about story or plot anymore. He just wants geometrical compositions and bright production design. Good soundtracks, sure, but that doesn't make up that nobody in his last couple films has even come close to resembling anything that could even pass for a human being. He should have been a music supervisor or a production designer instead of a director. People who think he's the greatest just don't know that much about film.
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portrayed in the western media, I hope everyone realizes there are major problems there, and to not make light of the situation for comic relief. Isn't India as "MAGIC LAND" a tired subject? My mom remembers all the hippie jackasses who came to mumbai during the 60s and laid around the train stations, while everyone else was trying to make a RUPEE. India will always be the subject of western elitiest curiosity, but I hope people realize Real people live and die there every day.
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i was born and raised in india and ive lived there 22 years. In mumbai to be exact. I know what the country is and I know why its so hard for people to pin down and how Indians have been stereotypically portrayed in western film and literature. But this trailer didn't seem to be Indiana Jones and the temple of doom to me. It seemed quirky and fun. If we can watch Peter Sellers "The party" and laugh at it, we can do that for this one too. I hope Shantaram is the movie that portrays Mumbai as the fascinating, crazy, dangerous, frustrating, beautiful, haunting, charming in an old world meets new world way...and i hope Mira Nair can do it. Till then, lets just watch movies like these with a little sense of humor shall we.
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I know I should be commenting on the movie, but as with Wes Anderson films i'll give him the benefit of the doubt and watch the film. What I'm happy about is the use of the two Kinks songs that arent widely heard. Everyone who likes what they heard go pick up The Kinks - Powerman/Lola CD, its great. That made my day.
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Come on, the "you don't know much about film" argument is so fucking tired. All that means is that YOU have a limited idea of what a film should be. What's wrong with a film that's more art than story? Tell that to Kubrick, who's famous for his long static shots, that resemble photographs or paintings more than anything. Anyway, I'm not a Kubrick snob (or a Wes Anderson one, for that matter) I just think a film can be enjoyed on a different level than just character interaction. (Though Wes Anderson always does pretty great in that department, too, I think.)
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But I've been a transient in both places. I know how westerners think about india and indians, like they are some kind "cute" little hobbit people. "Oh yes sirr" we are here to do your bidding sahib. And mumbai is hardly what anyone is talking about....India is not simply a portrayl of mumbai, and I know that for sure. My dad is from Indore, and the culture is vastly different.
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it's a great "grower". and if you hate either of those flics, you have no soul. (at least not a soulful one)
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My sister-in-law hails from India, so I understand what everyone's saying about India being a place with more problems than film makers tend to show. But in Wes's defense, when have his movies EVER taken place in anywhere other than fantasyland? It's not like he's rose-tinting India in particular; he just always does that.
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I'm there
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and thats ok, wes is just being wes, its just that its a tired subject, and this endless fascination with india's "mysterious" facade, continue to shoehorn the culture and people into background music for the GLORY OF ALL THAT IS WHITE PEOPLE COMING TO INDIA TO CONNECT AS BROTHERS. As an Indian American, im sick of movies/stories about India where people can sit on a "train" and be disengaged from the world and people around them. It takes away from the depth of the people.
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Meh.
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Jul 25, 2007 10:24:31 PM CDT
TENENBAUMS got better with multi-views, but not AQUATIC
by george newman
I thought RUSHMORE was brilliant. A revelation.
when I first saw THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS in theaters, I enjoyed it, but I felt disappointed because he reused the "Label with White Text" technique that I thought was original and hilarious in RUSHMORE. I was annoyed. But since then the film has grown on me considerably. As much as I love the humor, what I really treasure is the emotion of the film. It works. I have watched the film almost two dozen times and I only love it more and more.
With LIFE AQUATIC, I don't feel that much of the emotion works. The serious moments are much too stark compared to the lunacy of the rest of film. Anderson thrusts the serious sadness into your face, and it does not ring true.
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I love him, and I was really disapointed with Life aquatic it was my least favorite film hes made but the strange thing was I'd keep watching it, after the 5th time I told my friend that I kinda liked it and now after watching it more than any of his other films it may be tied for my favorite, Life Aquatic really does grow on you and the there are always new things to laugh at everytime you watch it. for people who have seen it once I think it really takes about 4 viewings to really get into it than after that it will soon become the best thing ever!
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Royal realized it was true." One of the greatest lines ever! Hackman not winning an Oscar for that film was a travesty. Wes Anderson gets a free ride for the rest of his life for having created that one amazing film that gets better each time you watch it. I hope Darjeeling is a return to greatness.
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...with no argument from me. The proof? Wes Anderson is stuck on a thematic loop...while PT is consistently ORIGINAL.
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The trailer looks good, and I will probably still see it because it's Wes Anderson. It's not as campy as his other films, but the scene in the trailer with them running down the hill reminds me too much of The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper.
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PUNCH DRUNK LOVE. Can watch that thing over and over just for the scene where Sandler and Watson are talking about how they want to punch and eat one another.
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Jul 26, 2007 2:35:00 AM CDT
All Anderson's films get better with multiple viewings
by franklin t marmoset
Really, there's so much detail packed into them all (except Bottle Rocket, which is probably his most immediately enjoyable film) that it takes a few go arounds to take it all in. The Life Aquatic in particular is one that is funnier and deeper each time you see it - whoever compared it to The Big Lebowski in that respect was spot on, I think.Anyway, I really love this guy. Very talented. Four films, four goals, as far as I'm concerned. Can't wait to see the new one.
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..is excellent, but the thing that really makes his films is the score by Mark Mothersbaugh; its Devo with more sun, its not really conventional but his sounds work. The Ping Island Strike was inspired.
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of the year.
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this Fall, eh? hopeful we have 3 winners here.
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I loved The Life Aquatic, but I get why so many people just couldn't connect with it. First off, there are the dipshits who don't get the effects (hey! those fish look fake!), but I think the rest of the Zissou haters just haven't reached a point in their lives yet that lets them identify with the character. It either clicks or doesn't, and if it doesn't click now, odds are it will in 10 years.
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but there were a number of shots there where Schwartzman looked uncannily like Steve Carrell with a moustache and long hair.
Weird.
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