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Analysis Of Wes Anderson 's ' The Grand Budapest Hotel '

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English 3.9

Texas-born director, Wes Anderson began his career in 1996, producing films with a distinctive style and techniques that are eccentric and attentive to detail. Anderson generally directs fast- paced, adventurous comedies, which involve serious elements or key ideas such as grief, ‘children are more adult than adults’, broken relationships and family issues. Geometric concepts and framing, colour schemes, quirky characters, and specific camera movements accompany and help to develop themes that are developed throughout both films. Within three years, Anderson produced films ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ (2012) and Oscar winning ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014). Moonrise kingdom tells the story of two youthful kids and their growing love story. Much like these characters in Moonrise Kingdom, the idea of change and development in character(s) is seen in The Grand Budapest Hotel where Zero begins at the hotel as a lobby boy, befriending hotel concierge, Gustave. Anderson said, “Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn’t quite seen before”. Aspects and techniques help to create his films and portray his specific style and key ideas.

The ‘lobby boy interview’ in The Grand Budapest Hotel and the ‘loaded question’ scene when Suzy runs away in Moonrise Kingdom are two scenes that display

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