Anderson. In addition to Owen C. Wilson, Luke Wilson and Robert Musgrave, the film also stars Andrew Wilson, Lumi Cavazos and James Caan as Mr. Henry. Music is by Mark Mothersbaugh.
Bottle Rocket, appropriately, grew out of the friendship between Wes Anderson and Owen C. Wilson. Anderson and Wilson met in a playwriting course at the University of Texas, albeit in a circuitous fashion. "There were about nine people in the class and they all sat around this long table. I sat in the corner, away from the table, and there was another person in that corner, who turned out to be Owen. During the entire class, we never once had a conversation. I wrote a play in that class and the next semester, it was produced, and I asked Owen to be in it."
Anderson can't explain why he decided to approach Wilson, but they hit it off immediately. Among other things, they discovered that they both loved movies, especially the work of Terrence Malick, the writer-director of Badlands and Days of Heaven, as well as the Coen brothers, John Huston and Roman Polanski. Beyond that, they shared a similar sense of humor, an ironic sensibility laced with a profound appreciation for the absurd and ironic. They eventually found an apartment in Austin and from their misadventures as college roommates, Bottle Rocket was born.
Link to more information about Wes Anderson's first feature
Link to the full movie as an .avi - you may only download this if you already own the VHS apparently. I do, but my dog ate it.
Link to the black and white short version of Bottle Rocket that Wes and Owen made while they were still at school.
whoa, i've always wanted to see the original short version, thank you very much
Posted by: basb | April 09, 2007 at 03:45 PM