Comments on: Arch Fiend http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/03/arch-fiend/ Chuck Jordan's Personal Weblog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:58:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: steve http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/03/arch-fiend/#comment-13098 steve Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:42:13 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/03/arch-fiend/#comment-13098 I think it was a bad move putting Bill Murray in it at all, because i knew he was existing in the same place as the three brothers. At times i wished i was on the train with him and not the three brothers. I noticed Owen Wilson did not have a hand in writing this one. It was Wes Anderson, a Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. Does this mean that Owen Wilson is a much better writer than i ever imagined? I think it was a bad move putting Bill Murray in it at all, because i knew he was existing in the same place as the three brothers. At times i wished i was on the train with him and not the three brothers.

I noticed Owen Wilson did not have a hand in writing this one. It was Wes Anderson, a Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. Does this mean that Owen Wilson is a much better writer than i ever imagined?

]]> By: Rain http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/03/arch-fiend/#comment-13095 Rain Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:30:12 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/03/arch-fiend/#comment-13095 Last week, "The Simpsons" did an episode that was a take-off on "The Departed," and at the end, a rat walks across a fence, and Ralphie pops out of a garbage can and says, "The rat symbolizes obviousness!" Which was hilarious. But the thing is, when I saw that rat in the movie, I thought the same thing, and was convinced Scorsese had put that in there to be funny, it's just SO obvious a symbol. Which is what I thought about the whole "baggage" thing in "Darjeeling." It was just so obvious, it made me laugh. You're probably right, and Anderson et al put that in there seriously. But I prefer to think they didn't, and I like the movie a lot more because of that. Last week, “The Simpsons” did an episode that was a take-off on “The Departed,” and at the end, a rat walks across a fence, and Ralphie pops out of a garbage can and says, “The rat symbolizes obviousness!” Which was hilarious. But the thing is, when I saw that rat in the movie, I thought the same thing, and was convinced Scorsese had put that in there to be funny, it’s just SO obvious a symbol.

Which is what I thought about the whole “baggage” thing in “Darjeeling.” It was just so obvious, it made me laugh. You’re probably right, and Anderson et al put that in there seriously. But I prefer to think they didn’t, and I like the movie a lot more because of that.

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