Like all the best filmmakers, Wes Anderson makes good use of trains and railways in his stories.
In this video we’ll go through every instance Anderson has used a train, what its significance is, and how it was done.
I really hope I haven’t missed any!
Footage from:
Bottle Rocket (1996) – Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures
Rushmore (1998) – Touchstone Pictures / Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) – Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) – Indian Paintbrush / Regency Enterprises / American Imperial Pictures / 20th Century Fox
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – Fox Searchlight Pictures / TSG Entertainment / Indian Paintbrush / Studio Babelsberg / American Imperial Picture / Fox Searchlight Pictures
Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion (2016) – H&M
Isle of Dogs (2018) – Fox Searchlight Pictures
The French Dispatch (2021) – Searchlight Pictures
Asteroid City (2023) – Focus Features / Universal Pictures
Asteroid City Miniatures – Piercefilm Productions / The Prop and Model Maker Berlin
The Making of The Darjeeling Limited – Barry Braverman
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Brilliant some of my favourite films 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬
Trains and Anderson go together like Futura and Anderson, or pastels and Anderson. It's just 😘👌
Quite, quite divine 🧑🍳😗
So much to love for this video! I adore the concept images, the hand painted crockery and details of the interior in the Darjeeling limited. So many clever ways of portraying the feeling of being on a train in the Grand Budapest hotel too, the actual shot compared to the behind the scenes in the barley field is so good to see, I never knew!
I appreciate the special mentions of the cable cars and funicular too as they feature in so many of the films. You've clearly put a lot of research and effort into this video and the love for these movies shines through. My favourite line is "of course, the train within the play, within the TV show, within the film" about Asteroid city haha
Nice video, really like the large-scale F unit and its train in the final one. One extra detail i would mention is that at 4:24 the funicular design ,the 1930's version at least (both the ,,3 steps shape" and colour palette) looks very similar to the funiculars at the Buda Castle in, well Budapest.
The line isn't very long, (95 m) but the funiculars have been recently refurbished. They also have a name, one is called Gellért and the other is called Margit.
This is absolutely clever 👍
Could there be a sequel to this video called every train in every Miyazaki Movie?
😶👍very nice
5:31 — It was not a goods train that M. Gustave and Zero were on, it was just them in third class. I recall the line from M. Gustave of, "oh, third class". Then I recall Bill Murray had the line : "You'll need these for the dining car" as he hands the duo black ties.
If you're making a period movie absolutely you must put a train in there somewhere, it really helps set the atmosphere.
1:17 as a gauge 1 owner I can safely say yea that's a lot bigger. At least 5" gauge.