Natalie Portman Gets Naked at Hotel Chevalier

There has been some minor stirring about the appearance of the adorable Natalie Portman's naked adorable butt in Wes Anderson's short film The Hotel Chevalier.

It is a promotional thing for The Darjeeling Limited and I suppose is somehow tied into the plot as a prologue .

You can view it for free at itunes or take a look at the YouTube upload here (the audio is better on itunes). The nekkdd part is in Part Two, but it really is not so good you should skip ahead.

Part One—Hotel Chevalier: (Fox pulled the video from YouTube--see note at bottom--go to itunes --it is free)



Part Two: Hotel Chevalier:(Fox pulled the video from YouTube--see note at bottom--go to itunes --it is free)



The reaction of most people is that The Hotel Chevalier is quite boring. I disagree. I found it fascinating.

I am generally not crazy about Wes Anderson's work. He is a master of capturing the subtle. But it is often at the expense of character development and plot. But a short is perfect for his talent of capturing a moment in time with the use of nuance and mood.

This guy is, for whatever reason, holed up in a Paris hotel room, dining on cheese sandwiches, when Natalie Portman arrives, seemingly full of confidence. They are obviously former lovers and there is an awkwardness, which the Portman character is trying to confidently ignore.

When they get to the bed, she thrusts her high heeled boots forward for him to remove. But when she is undressed there are signs there is more than awkwardness, it is a poisoned relationship of some kind.

Nothing is said of the bruises on the cinematic virginal behind. Her ex-lover does ask about the one on her arm, to which she does not respond.

And Hemingway could not have captured the existential essence better than this exchange:

Girl: I love you...I never hurt you on purpose.
Guy: I don't care.

In the end as they gaze from the balcony at the City of Lights, the whole mood reminded me of a late fall day. The song was perfect.

A strange mood for the shoot off of a feature film.

Which means I must see The Darjeeling Limited.


P.S.----

A little note to Twentieth Century Fox:

Welcome to the asshole club. I saw on the site statistics that you had lingered here for about twenty minutes and I assume you detected that I gave your little flick a nice review.

Then you decided to become typical corporate douchebags and run to YouTube and have the flick removed from that site because of copyright invasion. How profoundly ignorant.

I even advised my readers that the free version at itunes had better audio than the YouTube embedded version.

But, wouldn't it really better serve your interest of promoting The Darjeeling Limited, to have the prologue clip out there and as available as possible.

You are being Neanderthals just like I mentioned yesterday about the RIAA. You will lose in the end playing this game, and in this particular case are actually losing at this moment in the loss of sales of tickets.

How utterly stupid.

If I was head of the promotion department at Twentieth Century Fox, who ever was responsible for pulling that YouTube clip would be emptying their desk at this moment.

But maybe that is the kind of rigid non-thinking expected of News Corp. employees.

~Becky