The Darjeeling Limited

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• messed up
• quirks
• root
• underdog

• get away
• dying to
• rich
• little world

• on the brain
• cartoony

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Sometimes one of the stars of a movie is the place it’s filmed. Think about a movie like Amélie. Could it have been filmed anywhere but Paris?

Mason and Marni are at the mall and being there reminds Mason how boring life in your hometown can be. He really wants to travel somewhere, but sometimes it’s hard to get away. So Marni recommends The Darjeeling Limited, a movie about three brothers who ride a train together across India.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Mason

Marni

Mason:  Man, hanging at the mall makes me realize how much I need to get out of this town or country or something. I don’t know.

Marni:  I’ve been thinking about traveling so much. In fact, specifically, going to Asia and countries I’ve wanted to go to or countries I’ve never thought of…But I was wondering, have you been to India?

Mason:  India? No. What made you think of that?

Marni:  Well, I just saw The Darjeeling Limited...

Mason:  Oh yeah!

Marni:  And I never even thought about India until I saw that film, and I’m dying to go there now.

Mason:  Beautiful film, right?

Marni:  It was so beautiful. The colors were just so rich. It was captivating.

Mason:  I thought that was a really interesting movie because I love that director, right?

Marni:  Wes Anderson?

Mason:  And all of his films, he creates this little world for himself and it’s just kind of like, “Yeah, maybe I’ve been there, but it’s also different?”

Marni:  Right. I was wondering is it like…Are we just so…I mean obviously, you’re a fan, I’m a fan of his as well, and I’m so attracted to his films and I wonder what it is about them. Is it the visual element, is it the characters he creates…

Mason:  They’re kind of cartoony.

Marni:  They’re kind of cartoony but they’re all messed up and none of them are perfect and they have their quirks, but it’s sort of attractive. You root for the underdog.

Mason:  I guess. Well what was interesting about this film in relation to Wes Anderson’s others is, like, yeah, it kind of had elements of Wes Anderson creating his own thing, but he was out there in India. Which is like, “Oh wow, place I’d like to go.”

Marni:  Me too.

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