A Great Idea
angela
Wes Anderson is releasing a short film this week, Hotel Chevalier, the week before his latest feature length film, The Darjeeling Limited. The Wall Street Journal did a piece on it:
“Hotel Chevalier,” meanwhile, is a prequel of sorts that was made a year before “Darjeeling” even began filming. It takes place entirely in the Paris hotel room of Mr. Schwartzman’s character and includes information that later becomes relevant in “Darjeeling.” The short film’s premiere will be Tuesday night at Apple stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Monica, Calif. Then, starting Wednesday, it will be available as a free download on Apple Inc.‘s iTunes Web site.
I am a big fan of Anderson’s work and think this is a clever way to build his audience. Here’s his process:
“I shot ‘Chevalier’ in 21�?�2 days and edited it in about a week on my computer,” says Mr. Anderson. “I had one copy of ‘Chevalier’ on DVD, and I’d show it to people on my laptop that entire year,” says Mr. Anderson. He says that he financed “Chevalier” entirely out of his own pocket. He considered filming two additional shorts to fill in background on the other main characters and at one point considered opening the movie with the “Chevalier” sequence.
I hope more filmmakers do this.
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| Posted on September 24, 2007
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