A shot of Max Fischer sitting on a go-kart wearing a pair of goggles (and featured on the back cover of the UK DVD) is a recreation of a photograph taken in 1909 by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, a child prodigy who started taking photographs at the age of 6.The two people go carting in the background are director Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson.
Some of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s photographs, including the picture that inspired the mock of Max in a go-cart, are featured on the wall behind Max’s desk in the opening scene. The title of the photo is ‘Zissou’s bobsled with wheels, after the bend by the gate, Rouzat, August 1908.’ Bill Murray’s character in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is ‘Steve Zissou’.
