Later it’s replaced by John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over).īut the real showstopper of the mini-movie is something that I think no imitator could have conjured up. We can hear a distant Christmassy choir singing The Little Drummer Boy, and every time anyone opens a window the music gets louder – as if the choir really is outside, somehow moving alongside the train. (I myself have plaintively requested that people rediscover that novel, rather than waste time with The Girl on the Train.) Brody speaks with a sonorous voice – so sonorous and chocolatey, in fact, that I can’t be absolutely sure that Anderson isn’t being mischievous and dubbing in George Clooney. Murder on the Orient Express? No – it’s 4:50 from Paddington. One is showing excellent taste by reading an Agatha Christie mystery. Each passenger has a little photo of his or her nearest and dearest, which for one is simply a dog. But then, Brody and his assistant make a game attempt to replicate Christmas in the dining car, especially for the little kid on board: the “unaccompanied minor”.
Bad weather means they won’t be home for Christmas. He makes an announcement to the passengers – a droll cross-section of personalities, shown to us in their separate little compartments, in the classic Anderson dolls-house style. We see him through the window disconsolately tearing a page off his calendar and bringing us up to 25 December. Adrien Brody is the conductor in his little office. And it sort of looks like something by one of his own army of passionate imitators. (He has in fact made a dozen or so TV ads in the past, for products including Hyundai and Ikea.) Come Together looks rather like his The Darjeeling Limited. But now Wes is back himself delivering a TV ad for H&M entitled Come Together.
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