You are the screenwriter and you decide the plot. .

Watson 2022-03-24 09:03:00

05 Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel The entire scene story of this movie takes place in a large hotel, and several protagonists have their own different joys and sorrows. The tone of the whole movie is sad and sentimental, even if people come and go in the hotel, it can't hide the core of its sadness. Just like the veteran doctor said, people come and go, and each has a different life. After you leave, you will Someone is in your room, the hotel is still running, it doesn't change because of anyone.
When I watch a movie, my heart is full of coldness. In fact, the Grand Hotel is the epitome of a small society. No one can shake the wheel of history. Every day is a new day. People will eventually forget you. Forget everything, nothing is unforgettable.
I don't know what the director's intention was in filming this movie, but I just felt that human beings were weak and good luck made people. Maybe the director wanted to convey the human feelings that reflected the capitalist society during the Great Recession.
To sort out the plot, there are five protagonists in this film, followed by some supporting roles that play an important supporting role.
The first is the baron. He is addicted to gambling. Although he has the title of baron, he has lost all his property and made a living by stealing. He is also a soul character throughout the play, and the other four protagonists have varying degrees of connection with him. I would like to focus on the baron. When talking about the baron, I have to mention the aspect of human nature. This is the fifth Oscar-winning movie. The movies selected by the Oscars are getting deeper and deeper. Changes year by year, the United States or the times are developing little by little. People no longer focus on satisfying the basic needs of the body, and start thinking about life and pursuing the spirit. This kind of change makes people feel gratified, but the quality of the film varies. Qi is also a fact. (But it is a fact that movies are getting more and more difficult to understand, and it is also true that although some movies are very exciting, it is very tiring to watch, especially the more you think, the more tired you are, and the mental burden is heavy, but the baby still wants to persevere, and the complaints are over. .)
Now I'm going to start talking about the baron. Since the baron is the center of the play, he has a lot of scenes, and the character image is quite successful, but maybe it's too hard, this character is a bit too idealistic, not real enough, and there is no war with the Western Front. Like Yang Xi in the movie, the characters are too well-made but not real enough. He came from an aristocratic family, lost all his money in gambling, made a living by stealing and owed a lot of gambling debts. At first, I didn't like this character at all. After all, I don't like gamblers who can't control their actions, but as the plot develops, I actually find that this man helps the weak, his heart is full of justice and kindness, and he actually meets himself on the way of stealing true love? ? ? In the end, he was beaten to death for stealing money for an upright elopement with his true love? ? This character has a strong sense of disobedience. When I watched the movie, my heart was full of doubts, because his various behaviors did not match his gambler setting. Maybe it was related to his upbringing. He was born in a noble family. So kind? So affectionate? I don't understand the screenwriter's intention. I think this character's creation is inconsistent, and I don't want to praise him for the good things he has done. . First flirting with a pretty stenographer and then people fall in love with him He tells people that he's found true love, then helps poor sick dying workers and then encourages people to gamble? The worker was drunk and wanted to use up the remaining 6,800 marks to gamble (it seems to be marks), but he didn't stop them, and then the worker wanted to steal all the money after winning? In the end, because the worker was too pitiful, he returned the money, and then he was beaten to death for stealing the factory owner's money. . . I just can't describe how I feel
after combing through the Baron .
There are too many bugs in this movie. Let’s not talk about the image of such a strange baron. Does the screenwriter want to rely on these actors’ changing and changing plots that do not match the set background, to try to express to us the change of human nature? To express the ugliness of capitalist society? I've tried my best to speak for the screenwriter. .
Sure enough, writing a movie review can clarify my thoughts. Now I can think of more and more unreasonable places. There is a big problem with the characterization of this movie. Maybe I want to express the indifference of human feelings, but it makes me feel the paleness and falsehood of the movie. Not really flesh and blood shaping.
I will focus on a few key violations. The seriously ill worker is full of gratitude to the baron. Why can't the baron take care of the baron's funeral after his death? Then turn around and take the female stenographer to Paris waves? ;The female stenographer still had no regrets for the baron one second ago. I even thought that he was willing to be with the factory owner because he wanted to get some money for the baron, and then the next second she encouraged the seriously ill workers to go to Paris to play? Just because he won three or four thousand dollars? Her early sympathy is tender? Conscience eaten by dogs? ;The factory owner movie starts by saying that he has always been honest in doing business and loyal to his wife, and then when he sees the beautiful stenographer, he is crooked. In order to succeed in the merger and not go bankrupt, he lied? Is this in line with the overbearing president's setting? I'm just indifferent the whole time! After successfully deceiving people, I have to make an appointment with others and take them to Paris, how can I suddenly become a wretched man? In the end, he faked the murder scene. Did you slap you in the face with what you said at the beginning? Ballet dancer, you say that you are a woman who has been killed by thousands of troops across a single-plank bridge. With such a powerful setting, would you be innocent and believe in love? Like a little girl immersed in a dreamy love, you are no longer young and about to be out of breath, my sister, you are still willing to share your property with a baron who has only spoken to you a few words and rhetoric? You are a screenwriter, you are great, love is like a tornado. . Actors with good acting skills, but the plot setting is weird. I can't blame the actors. There are still many points to complain about, but I'm too tired to talk about it.
The characters' dialogues and their behaviors may be conveying hypocrisy to us. Maybe this is the theme of the movie. It's too brain-burning. I only give this movie 4 points. It may be a successful model. It's a movie, but it has too many bugs that I can't bear. I try to understand the brain hole of the screenwriter and director time and time again, and I fail. . Amen. . This movie disappointed me a lot. .

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Extended Reading
  • Sydney 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    This reminds me of "The Whistle and the Puppy". Sweet is sweet, but don’t fall into the trap...

  • Friedrich 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Austrian writer Wijbaum. It depicts the different experiences of five different guests of the Grand Hotel in one day in an objective, realistic and humorous way. Although the theme is to reflect the depression, confusion and decadence of the German society after World War I, it unexpectedly became the beginning of MGM's domination of Hollywood, winning with a strong lineup of stars, twists and turns and bizarre plots and intricate character relationships, creating a "same" Time and space, the type of indoor drama in which the fate of different characters has a strong dramatic conflict, has far-reaching influence to this day.

Grand Hotel quotes

  • Dr. Otternschlag: And what do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. No one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed... that's the end.

  • [first lines]

    Senf: [talking on the phone in a phonebooth at the Grand Hotel after a brief scene of operators at the switchboard] Hello? Hello? Hello, is that the clinic? Uh this is Senf; the head porter, Grand Hotel. How's my wife? Is she in pain? Isn't the child coming soon?... Patience? Would you have patience?

    Otto Kringelein: [in the next phonebooth] Uh this is Otto Kringelein. I-i-is that you Heinrich? Oh Heinrich listen, I've got to talk very quickly - with every minute costs two Marks ninety. Y-ya know that will I made before I had my operation? Well I want you to tear it up... Huh? W-e-I came to Berlin to see a great specialist about that old trouble of mine; y-you know Heinrich, i-it's pretty bad. Uh he says I haven't long to live... I say he says I won't live much longer!... No, it isn't nice to be told things like that. You plague and bother and save and all of the sudden you're dead. I want to get something out of life! Listen Heinrich, I'm *never* going back to Frieveshof, *never*. I-I'm staying here at the Grand Hotel; it's the most expensive hotel in Berlin. Y-eh all the best people stay here, even our big boss Preysing is staying here. I'm going to tell him someday just exactly what I think of him.

    Preysing: [in the next phonebooth] Hello? Hello, miss? This is General Director Preysing. I want my home in Frieveshof, please. Hurry, yeah... Hello! Hello. Is that you mama? How are da children? What news have you found at da factory dear?... Ya. Is your papa there?... Good. Hello papa, is that you?... Ya. The conference with the Saxonia company's set for tomorrow morning papa... Ya, ya. If the merger does not go through, ve are in very bad shape papa... Ya, ya. Everything depends upon news from Manchester! If the deal with the Manchester Cotton Company does not go through, we are facing a very bad situation papa.

    Suzette: [in the next phonebooth] I'm Suzette - Suzette: Madam Grusinskaya's maid. Madam will not dance today. No she will not go to the rehearsal; she did not sleep all night. There is something preying on her mind... No, I give her a tablet of degranol. She is sleeping now.

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [in the next phonebooth] This is Baron von Geigern. Look here, I need money or I can't stay at this hotel much longer. Well I've layed the groundwork, know the exact position of her room, and I've made friends with her ballet master Pimenov.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, sincerely] Listen Heinrich, I've taken all my savings - everything; and I'm going to enjoy spending it, *all* of it. I-it's terribly expensive here Heinrich, oooohh but it's wonderful!

    Senf: [back in his phonebooth, nervously] I can't, I'll lose my job! It's like being in jail.

    Preysing: [back in his phonebooth, adamantly] Rely on me papa. I will make this merger go through, I never fail.

    Suzette: [back in her phonebooth, frantically] Oh poor Madam, her mind is tortured. I'm afraid she will...

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [back in his phonebooth, slyly] I don't need advice, thanks very much; I need money.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, excitedly] ... music all the time - oh it's wonderful.

    Dr. Otternschlag: [sitting in a chair in the lobby smoking a cigar] Grand Hotel: people coming, going... nothing ever happens.

    [the scene fades out]