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Wes Anderson: ‘Why Was Slumdog a Hit and Not Darjeeling?’

Videogum found this 10/27/2009 on nymag.com

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 ...