MovieChat Forums > The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Discussion > india through the eyes of 3 rich white b...

india through the eyes of 3 rich white boys

posted 14 years ago by !!!deleted!!! (23416030)
20 replies | jump to latest

as far as india goes, this movie is pure fantasy fiction from start to finish. this is how i envision the screenplay was conceived:

Wes Anderson: hey guys, i wanna make a movie in india cause then i can get a tax write-off for my vacation there.

Roman Coppola: yeah, ok, but india is just so dirty and poor.

Jason Schwartzman: yeah, i'm only going if we can stay in 5-star hotels the whole time and hire some bodyguards to keep the beggars off of me.

Wes Anderson: totally, our movie won't be about REAL india, it'll be just about how we imagine it while we get stoned at the Taj hotel - only $5,000/night per room!

Roman Coppola: i get it! we'll make the trains really nice and the women really slutty, because, i mean, face it, nobody in america wants to see a movie about how crappy the railway system in india really is, and nobody wants to admit that indian girls are totally asexual and would never kick down with a white boy - unless she's working Faulkland Road or somehing.

Jason Schwartzman: not to mention that having sex in a real indian toilet splattered with diarrhea and stale urine would be just gross.

Wes Anderson: but the film needs something else, something that makes people actually want to go see it, like...

Roman Coppola: like natalie portman's naked fat arse!!!

Jason Schwartzman: i go to temple with her; i'm sure i can pursuade her to make a cameo.

Wes Anderson: cool, but say its for artistic purposes, not marketing.

Roman Coppola: ha ha, so many geek boys are gonna wet themselves for this movie!

Jason Schwartzman: maybe i'll grow a mustache too. then people will start taking me seriously.

Wes Anderson: what should we call it?

Roman Coppola: Jodhpur Limited?

Jason Schwartzman: americans won't know how to pronounce jodhpur; the name will scare them. how about Darjeeling Limited? sounds much nicer.

Wes Anderson: yeah, and it's not like anyone will be smart enough to know that the movie doesn't even take place in darjeeling.

[–] 14 years ago

[deleted]

[–] blackakira36 13 years ago

so your complaint about the movie is that the director showed India positively and they showed Natalie Portman's bare butt?

[–] heyanerd 13 years ago

THIS MOVIE MAKES FUN OF THE FACT THAT THEY'RE THREE RICH WHITE SPOILED BOYS AND PUTS THEM IN A PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES AND THE LIVES THAT ARE NOT THEIRS BUT JUST AS VALUABLE IF NOT MORE.

Did we not see the same movie?

And also, I'd rather see something ACTUALLY SET IN INDIA and pays homage to the country and culture before the movie "Road Trip" any day.

[–] princesstinymeat 13 years ago

Ha ha. Great post! (I still enjoyed the film, though.)

[–] kosk11348 13 years ago

Yeah, this is a white person's fantasy version of India. But all Wes Anderson movies are idealizations in some way. The Life Aquatic had an almost Victorian vibe in the way it romanticized discovery and life upon the sea. This movie is India seen through a prism of privilege, no doubt. But it's still an amazing movie.

Orgies are not too much fun if no one wants to do it with you.

[–] hugh1971 12 years ago

Haha very true about sex in an Indian railway toilet! I laughed out loud at that...

[–] 12 years ago

[deleted]

[–] raf-33 9 years ago

Dude, I could only stand about half of your original post but it seems to be India through 1 idiot's eyes.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov

[–] manubhatt3 9 years ago

Hahahahaha.....So true! It didn't got quite my attention until I read ur post. Seriously, these americans have a knack of telling lies about the rest of the world to their public because they know...no one would care.