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Train montage... unreal!

posted 11 years ago by TwoThousandOneMark
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I'm nearly 200 pages into the awesome new Wes Anderson Collection book.

Without getting too detailed, the author (who's known Wes a good few years now) wonders what it was like filming the train tracking shot on set, the 'dollhouse shot' & the moving background through the windows.

Wes, mind blowingly, subsequently points out that no, in fact that full on train tracking shot montage was no set- they filmed its entirely using a real train boxcar!?! An empty boxcar fashioned into a location set, building the compartment 'sets' into the boxcar, & moved along actual rails?! Wes further points out that the real trick was to actually have all the lead actors in one place for that shoot lol.

I mean, that's boss.

The book is amazing btw. Found out that Bill Murray (I may have read about it back in the day) worked for SAG minimum on Rushmore.

[–] popzeus78 11 years ago

I'm about half way through the book and found that bit to be mind blowing as well. I re-watched Darjeeling last night and really enjoyed it more than the other few times I've seen it. It may not be Wes' greatest picture but it certainly doesn't deserve the slamming it regularly receives.

[–] dlup63 11 years ago

Wes Anderson is one of the best filmmakers today. The fact that it's a real train boxcar doesn't surprise ,=me. And yes, that takes balls.

[–] timlin-4 11 years ago

self-indulgent gimmick