THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
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- omahadesigns0
Is it just me or all his movies exactly the same?
Same characters assortment, weird dialogue and camera angles, but different settings and names.
- Whats wrong with that?ArmandoEstrada
- Didn't say it was wrong.omahadesigns
- it's called artpablo28
- it's called awesome.sea_sea
- I think it's a definitive style but I don't think they're all the same.CyBrainX
- ukit20
They are pretty much but that's part of the charm
- inteliboy0
Looks great!!! Can't wait.
- GeorgesIV0
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it's the 10th time I read the same comment, had to google it
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- 9 Results. Georges is clearly lying!mekk
- moldero0
Soundtrack stream:
- mg330
I have very little interest in it. I like some of his stuff - Royal Tennenbaums is one of the best movies ever - but this one looks so overtly hipster that it just looks stupid to begin with. Feels like a barely-there story that was created to support a visual direction. I don't get it.
- = over 35?yurimon
- Indeed I am 36. :Dmg33
- you are basing this off what? a trailer?Aa77
- I feel same way... guess they know their demographics... young twat nosed bitches think they know bout lifeyurimon
- :)yurimon
- There's such an anti-hipster paranoia that the term doesn't even mean anything anymore.CyBrainX
- mg330
I will say that I thought Moonrise Kingdom was pretty good. The micro-stylized aspect is definitely amusing and impressive. I guess my think with this hotel movie is that I can't figure out for the life of me what the point of the story is.
- moldero0
you down with digable planets?
- mg330
OK, here's the plot:
The film opens in the present as a teenage girl approaches a statue in a courtyard. In her arms is a memoir penned by a character only known as "The Author." She begins reading a chapter about a trip he made to the Grand Budapest Hotel in the late 1960s. Located in the Republic of Zubrowka, an Eastern European nation ravaged by war and poverty, he discovers that the remote, mountainside hotel has fallen on hard times. Much of its lustrous facilities are now dilapidated and its guests are few and far between.
The Author encounters the hotel's owner one afternoon and they agree to meet later that evening. Over dinner in the hotel's enormous dining room, he tells him the tale of how he took ownership of the Grand Budapest and why he's unwilling to close it down.[9]
The owner's story begins in 1932 during the final years of the hotel's glory days. Zubrowka is on the verge of war but this of little concern to Gustave, the Grand Budapest's devoted concierge. When he isn't attending to the needs of the hotel's wealthy clientele or managing its staff, Gustave courts a series of aging, blonde women who all flock to the hotel to enjoy his "exceptional service." One of them is Madame D. During her final stay at the hotel, Gustave spends the night with her prior to her departure.
A few days later, he's informed that Madame D has died under mysterious circumstances. He races to her wake where he learns that she bequeathed him 'Boy With Apple,' a valuable painting, in her will. This enrages her family, all of whom hoped to inherit it, especially her son, Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis. After Gustav hides the painting in a safe at the Grand Budapest, Gustave is arrested and framed for the murder of Madame D.
Meanwhile, the hotel's new lobby boy, a teenager named Zero, aids him in escaping from a maximum security prison. Along with a group of hardened cons, Gustave digs his way out of his cell. They part ways and Gustave teams up with Zero to prove his innocence. Their adventure takes them to a mountaintop monastery where they meet with Serge X, the only person who can provide Gustav with an alibi for the night of Madame D's murder.
They are pursued by J.G. Jopling, a cold-blooded assassin who manages to kill Serge. Zero and Gustave steal a sled and chase Jopling as he flees the monastery. During a clash on the edge of a cliff, Zero manages to kill the assassin and rescue his mentor.
Back at the Grand Budapest, the military has commandeered the hotel and is in the process of turning it into a bunker. The outbreak of war is now imminent. A heartbroken Gustave vows to never again pass the threshold. They are joined by Agatha, Zero's young wife. She agrees to go inside to retrieve the painting but is discovered by Dimitri. A chase and a gunfight ensue before Gustave's innocence is finally proven via a confessional letter, penned by Serge, that was hidden in the painting's frame.
A different version of Madame D's will is soon discovered as well. It reveals that she was the mysterious owner of the Grand Budapest. She leaves much of her fortune, the hotel and the painting to Gustave, making him fabulously wealthy in the process. He becomes one of the hotel's regular guests and later grants Zero ownership. Meanwhile, the war rages on all around them.
During a train trip, soldiers search Gustave's carriage and he's shot and killed during an argument. Zero vows to continue his legacy at the Grand Budapest but the ongoing conflict and the ravages of time slowly begin to take their toll. Agatha succumbs to a disease and dies a few years later.
The hotel's owner, now revealed to be an aging and devastated Zero, confesses to the Author that he can't bring himself to close the hotel because it's his last link to his dearly departed wife and the best years of his life. The Author later departs for South America and never returns to the hotel, leaving both it and Zero's ultimate fate unknown. Back in the present, the girl finishes reading the chapter about the Grand Budapest and leaves the courtyard.
- mg330
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.
- Pixter0
Dont know why, but reminds me of
- instrmntl0
New Yawkers
A TIMESTALKS CONVERSATION
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Actor and director Ralph Fiennes (“The Invisible Woman,” “Coriolanus,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” “Schindler’s List,” “The English Patient”) stars in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the new star–studded film from director Wes Anderson (“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Bottle Rocket”). Don’t miss the award–winning director and actor in conversation about the new film and their work as filmmakers.
- 12xu0
- oey0
- oey0
- fuck this!oey
- fuck!oey
- just post the link g'dmt!doesnotexist
- oey0
- eoin0
- marychain0
Was great...anybody else see it? No suprises in terms of style...but if you like his films...this is one of the better ones
- detritus0
Saw it.
Not got very much to say about it - it's obviously a Wes Anderson film.
Beyond that? pfft, it was slipping from mind barely minutes after I left the cinema.
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Thought it was cool as fuck DARLING!