I want more!!!: The Darjeeling Limited [濫看]

Nothing is to be expected before actually seeing The Darjeeling Limited. When a splash of colors came to the eyes, one couldn’t help but exclaim to the beauty that Marc Jacob and Eric Anderson have to offer.

Never had a Marc Jacob suitcase or bag looked that wonderful - the fun jungle pattern illustrations of Eric Anderson (brother of the director Wes Anderson) complemented with the startling orange is simply an art. Wes Anderson is no doubt a top visual artist – for he is such an smart ass to have Natalie Portman’s perfect nude butts placed side by side the cute suitcase we adore.

[heard these LV suitcases are set for autions. Never in my life did I want any LV products, these are prolly the first (mebbe the last too?!)]

[Adrien Brody's (on the left) baby blue shirt and baby pink boxers are just perfect...]

[Now his shades and the red necklace are just as cool, ok I admit, he's my fashion icon.]

Enough visual impacts… (only they are so overwhelming that we started to wonder if India really is that beautiful beyond the lens). Yet if you still remember Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” (produced 2001), it would hardly be surprising to have all these; plus, of course, the weird / awkward characters in his movie.

Wes had continued to construct individual stories for different characters; only minimal background information is given, leaving the audience open to wide speculations. Adopting the Shaw Brothers way of filming (or is that Bollywood in fact?), the often sudden zoom-in or zoom-out camera movement had encrusted a low-fi touch to the Bollywood-imitation.

In Wes’ films you are forever dumbfounded - on one hand you feel like things displayed in front of you are all-so-awkward and seriously mismatched; on the other though the conflicting elements are just so edgy that almost are compelling. It doesn’t matter if you agree to the story or not, it is always the funkiness and eccentricity that attract.

[Wes Anderson himself]