THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
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Does anyone read McSweeney's? Get the books?
This feels like a McSweeney's story brought to life. Lots of the writers there weave these incredible story-lines into their stories, tangents galore to fill space and amuse.
I'm sure this movie will have a scene where someone stops down to make a sandwich in the kitchen, but then we have to learn a witty story about the baker who made the bread, and how he grew up wanting to be a pilot but bad eyesight meant it wasn't possible, and he had a dream about baking bread once but before he took that path in life he did a stint in county jail for armed robbery, but it was all a case of mistaken identity so he was exonerated and THEN got to the bread making after several years of trying to decipher his grandmother's recipes he found in an old photo album that were written in a strange code of hers [and that leads to a tangent of scenes acted out based on photos in the book, and how she had her own strange habits]... and then we're back to the sandwich making in the Grand Budapest hotel. And the whole thing is narrated by Alec Baldwin, of course.
Total chaos.