One of my favorite movies, that I mentioned in my introduction post is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I really like how Wes Anderson directs, he has a really distinctive directing style, and the way that his movies are shot is captivating. In The Grand Budapest hotel, there is a handful of really diverse characters.
The plot starts with looking at all of the characters lives and what they’re going through, and as the movie progresses all of the characters lives intersect- it makes me think of the whole ‘six degrees of separation’ idea. The movie has a really dry sense of humor which is super entertaining through out, and it also showed a lot of history about WW2 and the different perspectives during that time of what different people back then may have been experiencing.
The movie showed the time before the Holocaust occurred and during the time that Hitler came to power, but it focuses more on the people that were effected by the Holocaust and everything during that time- using the characters to represent some of the groups of people that were targeted back then. I love history and I thought that it was really beautiful to give a testimonial to those groups of people. A lot of movies about the Holocaust focus on all the bad but this movie focuses more on the good and that what I love about it so much.
Hi Mylikha,
This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite movies of all time. When we got this assignment, I started looking for this post because I knew you’d do a great job with it. Informing your readers of the historical context of the film is incredibly useful, because world events always seem to bleed into how a film is created. Wes Anderson’s cinematography methods are my favorite. From Fantastic Mr. Fox to Moonrise Kingdom, his quirky creativity shines through delivering a similar cinematic experience, in a visual sense, throughout. In the future I will call attention to the diversity of character lists and how they help highlight one another.