Scene: The Darjeeling Limited

For my scene i chose the opening scene of the Darjeeling Limited. The video isn't on youtube but can be watched here: http://www.imeem.com/urbana/video/VrZRW-mO/the-darjeeling-limited-opening-scene-movies-video/

Movie: The Darjeeling Limited

Scene: Opening scene immediately following credits

Run Time: 2:58 (without opening credits)

Passenger played by Bill Murray and Man with Sunglasses is Adrien Brody
Description of the Scene: The scene begins with an establishing shot of a small town in India, in the background a hurried Indian music is playing setting a hurried pace for the scene. As the music becomes more hurried the camera zooms in to focus on a black car, seen from the front, as it zooms down the street. Cut to view from driver side window, showing road in front of car and a taxi meter, establishing the car as a taxi. The camera quickly pans over from the meter to reveal the driver of the taxi, a middle aged indian man wearing a turban and glasses with both hands gripped on the wheel. Camera then cuts to view from hood of car looking into the car, revealing the passenger in the back seat, with the driver still in the shot. The passenger is a middle aged white man, wearing a light colored suit and hat, looking nervous. Shot cuts to view from behind car as car zooms through traffic. Cut to closeup of taxi driver, from side. Cut to view from back of taxi to reveal the taxi driver's view. Cut to view from front seat lookign back into the back seat, passenger check watch. Cut to driver's view, close up on steering wheel as driver navigates thorugh more traffic. Cut to front view of car swerving through traffic. Cut back to closeup on passenger's face, who's looking progressively more nervous. Cut to view of hood of car and traffic in front of car. Cut to side view of car and then view out of rear window as driver narrowly navigates around two cars. cut to view from rear window looking into taxi, passenger turns aorudn in apparent wonderment that they made it past the two cars. Cuts back to view from hood lookign into the taxi, passenger looks nervous as taxi driver works his way throught traffic. Cut to side view of car as it navigates around a llama, car begins to drive away from camera. Cut to shot of car pulling up to builfing and slamming on brakes(shot from side view).shot from inside taxi in the back seat as Passenger hurries out of taxi with two bags. Cut to view of drivers window as driver yells at passenger for not paying. Cut to passenger running towards building, shot from behind as if camera is chasing behind him. Cut to long shot view from inside train station, passenger enters carrying two bags and works his way around people, camera follows him as he runs. CLose up of ticket window, passenger enters scene, says "that's my train". Scene cuts to end of train pulling away, camera quickly pans over to reveal passenger running after train. Camera starts off with a side view of passenger runnign but as he cuts around people becomes view from in front of passenger. Cuts to shot from behind passenger, shows the train a few feet in front of him. Close up on boy on caboose of train, camera pans down to reveal name of traina nd subsequently the title of the film. Cut back to close up on passenger's face who's running yelling "wait". Another man appears in the background next to the passenger, this man is also running, he is wearing glasses and has long brown hair, he passes passenger and makes eye contact with him for a second. Music changes from hurried indian music to "This Time Tomorrow" by The Kinks as shot changes to a die view of the bakc of the train. After a few seconds the man in glasses runs into the shot(in slow motion) carrying a bag. He catches the train thorws his bag on and jumps aboard. Once he lands on train, cuts to closeup on his face as he removes hi glasses(in slow motion). Cuts to his view as he sees passenger beginning to slow as he realizes he will not catch train(also in slow motion). Cut back to close up of man's face as he puts his sunglasses back on and enters train(also in slow motion)
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