Asked about the main character, Larry Gopnik (played by Michael Stuhlbarg), one of the filmmakers (the journalist doesn't say which one) says: He's an imaginary character, but composed on the basis of people we knew.
By The New Yorker October 5, 2010 Composed on the basis of brainstorming with Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited," a freewheeling jaunt through India by three brothers (Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody), is an idiosyncratic travelogue for which the cast and crew lived and worked on a functioning train.
Composed on the basis of brainstorming with Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited," a freewheeling jaunt through India by three brothers (Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody), is an idiosyncratic travelogue for which the cast and crew lived and worked on a functioning train.
Just as many works of art in the Italian Renaissance were commissioned by royalty and the Roman Catholic Church, much music was likewise composed on the basis of such commissions incidental court music, music for coronations, for the birth of a royal heir, royal marches, and other occasions.
Incidence figures are composed on the basis of many individual reports of occupational diseases.
However, the catalogue was composed on the basis of the most often discussed political interventions.
Ms. Rogers composed her novel on the basis of an intriguing historical note.
The characters come forward and give little monologues about their lives, as in "A Chorus Line," but the speeches, many of them composed by Uhry on the basis of actual Shaker documents, are much less worldly.
Pliny regarded the Cheiromecta as composed by Democritus on the basis of his studies with the Magi (Nat. 24. 160) and normally cites its contents as what Democritus or the Magi said.
If I were composing this list on the basis of individual performances, it would have included Liev Schreiber in "Talk Radio" and Ian McKellen in "King Lear".
The fullest access to what Nemes doesn't and won't show clearly will be through the culled word — will be when Saul, or other members of a Sonderkommando, speaks with Lanzmann, and when Lanzmann composes a film on the basis of that word.
