movie news | Thu. 09 27. 2007 12:00 AM EDT
5 Questions:
Wes Anderson & Adrien Brody
The Darjeeling Limited creator and cast member on siblings, India and why they're so damn fussy about the details.
Wes Anderson & Adrien Brody
The Darjeeling Limited creator and cast member on siblings, India and why they're so damn fussy about the details.
(Fox Searchlight)
Attempted suicides. Nutty settings. Dysfunctional families. Yep, sounds like a Wes Anderson movie. In The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson teams up
VH1: Why'd you make a movie about brotherhood? Wes Anderson: I grew up with three brothers. We got along very well, but we fought a lot. We fought most of the time . . . and yet they're the people I'm closest to in the world. There's something kind of odd about that. I've also spent a lot of time with Owen, Luke, and Andrew Wilson; those guys are like brothers to me. And also Jason Schwartzman and [co-writer] Roman Coppola -- my relationship with them is very much like brothers. VH1: Adrien, what'd you think of India? Adrien Brody: I was there before -- on my own -- for three months. I bought a motorcycle and was cruising around with my girlfriend. It's an amazing place. Although there's such poverty and hardship there, the people have an incredibly generous spirit. They're very open. Very curious and kind. What they lack in possessions they have somewhere else...a spiritual depth that a lot of people here, unfortunately, are lacking. VH1: Some people say the The Life Aquatic was too expensive. A commercial flop. Did that affect this movie? WA: Filming on the water turned out to be very, very difficult. And expensive. And slow. It was the movie we wanted to make . . . but maybe it shouldn't cost $60 million. [Laughs.] In Europe and Japan, they released it like my other movies. They said, "This is a special little odd movie." They didn't think about how much it cost. But in America, it had to be presented as a big movie on 2,000 screens, because they had all this money in it. And the only hope to get the money back was to go for it, which it can't really do. So we made Darjeeling Limited for much, much less money. VH1: Adrien, Has being famous changed the way you look at things? AB: It's been really interesting becoming famous. Because I see how perception is really not necessarily aligned with the truth. And how so much of what we perceive isn't really based on reality . . . it's based on fragments and distorted perceptions. When you read about me, you're reading one moment in my life. One person's perception. I might have had a really good day; I might have had a really bad day. People are always different. VH1: Wes . . . way back when, what first turned you on to being a director? WA: Some Hitchcock movies that were out on Beta -- Rear Window, Rope, North by Northwest. Those really interested me, because I thought it was weird that the videos said "Alfred Hitchcock." But he's not in it. So I realized that suddenly it's not about the star, it's about this Alfred Hitchcock. So I was interested in that. And then Spielberg, Indiana Jones, Star Wars. Later, I started watching some French movies. And in those movies all the things were built around these directors, and I started getting drawn to those. |
