Tone, Composition and Lens Aesthetics at The Grand Budapest Hotel

Laurianne 2022-04-23 07:01:14

This is a movie that makes me feel very comfortable.
The first was its unusual shades of pink and blue, which attracted me from the beginning, and it turns out that movies can have such colors. In addition, some of the pictures are very color shocking, it is hard to imagine that so many colors can be blended in this way






Then you will find that the beauty of architectural graphics is preserved everywhere in the film, the rules are rigorous and aesthetics are not lost, and the characters are placed in it as if they are the characters created by this scene. Symmetry and parallelism are everywhere in the picture






In addition to the strong cut, the biggest feature of the scene switching method is to use the lens to move 90° or 180°, giving people the feeling of being cut into a flat and neat cube without a trace of error.
The film's soundtrack is also very lighthearted, giving the story a witty and humorous feel, with characters like dolls from Super Mario.

As for the storyline, although I generally understand the context of the story, I don't quite understand the meaning of the reveal. It seems that I don't understand a little bit until the narration of the elderly Ji Rui at the end of the film.

However, this is a movie that will be rewatched. Next time, let's appreciate the plot.

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Extended Reading
  • Lela 2021-10-20 18:59:25

    The four-fold time and space and the way of telling and the charming structure of the picture frame [the closer it is to the present, the narrower the indirect], the main story panorama depicts the last glory of the fading European pre-war culture [rituals, famous paintings, family], as a witness, Zero [immigrant] is right The nostalgia of the still-lost "Spiritual Homeland Europe", as well as the imitation of the performance methods and lens use of old movies, plus Fiennes' exquisite performance and cast, Anderson has entered the threshold of masters.

  • Eryn 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    This film did not take the golden bear, what is the reason of heaven? Especially lost to the bad film "Fireworks in the Day". Hope to gain something at the Oscars. And this is also the most delicate language of Wes movie. For example, the outermost layer of the four-layer narrative is a girl with a book to pay homage to the portrait of the writer. All the shots are locked in vertical or parallel movement, imitating the spatial structure and rhythm of reading or turning a book, and locks all magic. The frame mirror of the book is exquisite to the extreme.

The Grand Budapest Hotel quotes

  • M. Gustave: I give you my word, if you lay a finger on this man, I'll see you dishonorably discharged, locked up in the stockade, and hanged by sundown.

  • M. Gustave: [interviewing will walking] Experience?

    Zero: Hotel Kinsky, Kitchen Boy, 6 months. Hotel Berlitz, Mop and Broom Boy, 3 months. Before that I was a Skillet Scrubber.

    M. Gustave: Experience, zero.

    [to various workers]

    M. Gustave: Straighten that cap. Pleasure's all mine. These are not acceptable.

    [back to Zero]

    M. Gustave: Education?

    Zero: I studied reading *and* spelling. I started my primary school. I almost finished...

    M. Gustave: Education, zero.Good morning Cicero. Call the plumber. Family?

    Zero: [hesitates] Zero.