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Wes Anderson: ‘Why Was Slumdog a Hit and Not Darjeeling?’
Wes Anderson: ‘Why Was Slumdog a Hit and Not Darjeeling?’
It's a question that's vexed film scholars for over a year: What is to account for the bizarre embrace of Danny Boyle's crowd-pleasing 2008 fairy tale Slumdog Millionaire — about a charming, penniless Mumbai orphan's miraculous game-show victory — by a world that, only a year ...
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Videogum — ... Today, Wes Anderson asks the question: "why was Slumdog [Millionaire] a hit, and not Darjeeling [Limited]?" You provide the answer, in the comments. ...

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/Film — ... of The Darjeeling Limited, especially in light of the success, the following year, of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire: “Why did this India movie become a big hit and mine didn’t?” he said. He answered his own question: “With my style, I can take a subject that you’d think would be commercial and turn it into something that not a lot of people want to see.” [vulture] ...

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