Wes Anderson, American filmmaker, speaking to scribes at Cannes Film Festival, said he stole a scene from late Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
He presented Satyajit's 1971 film Aranyer Din Ratri after spearheading its restoration, he admitted to copying a famous scene from it for his 2023 film Asteroid City.
He said he copied memory scene in his film Asteroid City from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri. He revealed “Yes, well, stole it. The way that scene was done…it’s the most beautifully…First of all, that concept of the scene is very odd because it’s a game. But we learn about these characters so much while they play these games, and they’re saying these things,”
He revealed “Then the way it's photographed. I mean, the cast is obviously a special cast. But the way it’s photographed is very striking. And the moment when we choose to start going from face to face, there’s more emotion in this scene than you would think there’s any reason to be. My family and I began to play this game after I saw the movie.”
Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Pahari Sanyal and Sharmila Tagore starred in Aranyer Din Ratri directed by Satyajit Ray. The scene referred to was a famous scene shows the camera pan to different characters sitting in a circle as they play a memory game. Wes recreated the scene in his film Asteroid City, which stars Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Grace Edwards and others.