It can be said from three aspects: character, style and cast. I reversed the order because a lot of people are probably more interested in actors.
The cast of this film is very impressive, and many of the small supporting roles in several scenes are also star-level actors, not just ordinary people. Starring British actor Ralph Fiennes, who played the handsome brutal Nazi officer on Schindler's list, and the mild-mannered hotel manager in this film, the contrast is stark. The other major cast members are F. Murray Abraham, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton (just met in Birdman), Willem Dafoe (just met John Wick last week). Other cameo appearances include Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and more. Such a dizzying and indiscriminate lineup, only Wong Kar Wai-level characters can do it, revealing the director's popularity!
The filming of this movie is very stylish. The colors are bright and dazzling, the scenes are extravagant and unreal, and the composition is extremely neat and meticulous. The performance style is also slightly exaggerated, serious, tense and lively, which can be said to be retro. The performance here is fast, but there is a slight pause. For example, let's take a look. For example, looking around is like this: first look at the front, pause for a while, turn your head 90 degrees to the right, pause for a while, turn your head 90 degrees to the left, pause for a while. Very geometric, right, reminds me of Chaplin's acting style? And the toy-like cable cars, mountains, ski runs, etc. inside are even more retro.
Finally, talk about this character, which is the most shining point of the film. As a restaurant manager, he has an innate instinct and talent to please others, which makes him a first-class restaurant manager. He is neither humble nor arrogant, and regards customers as God. Not only that, he treats ordinary people he meets as politely as customers. He is proficient in elaborate words and etiquette, and enjoys it endlessly, citing moving poems anytime and anywhere. His life is a little rotten. Zhou Xuan is among the aging ladies, but he does not betray his embarrassment. Instead, he serves them well with the attitude of fulfilling his duties and enjoying life, entertaining and entertaining himself. He doesn't have a strong moral character, but has a good nature. This kind heart allows him to treat the oppressed equally. What is even more commendable is that his kindness can also be transformed into courage. He came forward when his poor little valet was being questioned by the army. After suffering the first time, the second time he stubbornly protected the little follower. In his opinion, this is a matter of course and righteousness. At this moment, he has become a model of a gentleman.
However, the era of the gentleman has long since disappeared.
His little follower, as a survivor, said quite profoundly after many years that his world did not disappear with him, but did not exist a long time ago, but he single-handedly presented us with such a world phantom.
Truly an intriguing film. There are also some small plots in it, such as the Jianghu organization formed by the managers of large hotels in various places, which is very joyful like a mysterious gangster, so I won't talk about them one by one. When I talk about other movies, I can still say some shortcomings, and I can't think of anything I don't like about this movie. The film also won as many as four Oscars, but the best picture was taken away by Birdman. But I think this film is better than Birdman.
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the line, the following is the second article. Some things often take a while to understand. I want to start with a nursery rhyme. There is a nursery rhyme that once there was a mountain, there was a temple in the mountain, and an old monk was telling a story in the temple. What are you talking about? The story is that there was a mountain in the past, and there was a temple in the mountain...
In this nursery rhyme, each floor is a story space, and then it unfolds downwards. Of course it is an infinite loop of boring repetition. But the film of the Grand Hotel is nested with multiple narrative spaces with different meanings.
The film begins with a young female reader, in a desolate and unknown place, commemorating an author. She opens a novel under the author statue. Time and space have changed, and the author is reminiscing when he is old. Time and space have changed. When the author was young, he lived in the Grand Budapest Hotel and chatted with the hotel owner at the time. As time and space changed, the restaurant owner talked about the last restaurant manager he followed when he was a child, who is also the protagonist of the film.
What's more interesting is that this narrative space doesn't stop there! Because I'm writing a film review, it's a fivefold storytelling space for me. You see my film review, for you, it is a six-fold narrative space!
Why make the narrative structure so complicated? First, I think it's fun. Just play literature, play movies, play literature and art, and finally literature and art are played into this practice. Second, he has deep meaning. Through continuous development and flashbacks, he widens the distance between the story itself and the audience, and finally reaches an anonymous time and country, which strengthens the fairy tale sense of the story. And as mentioned before, each layer of space is not added in vain, it has the amount of information.
With these things in mind, it's time to talk about the topic. What is the theme of this movie? The answer comes naturally. The theme of this movie is nostalgia, the nostalgia for an era.
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