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Many thanks to Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly\u2018s Popwatch blog for correctly stating that Hotel Chevalier, the Wes Anderson short film that was recently made available to American iTunes customers, is a \u201cprologue\u201d to The Darjeeling Limited. I have seen many, many people refer to it as a \u201cprequel\u201d, but it is not. A \u201cprequel\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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