Exciting colors, unique characters, turbulent camera movement and take-off rhythm, unstoppable aesthetics and thinking, from the opening film of the 64th Berlin Film Festival, "Budapest Hotel" directed by Wes Anderson.
The brightly colored pictures are like watercolor postcards, the smooth and diverse camera movement brings fresh and rich perspectives to the audience, the true "dreamy" created by legendary characters and absurd performances, and of course the contribution is from Alexander Displa The special soundtrack fits the narrative closely and sounds good enough. Wes Anderson's recognition in the film world is no longer just from Billy Wilder, Liu Bieqian or Kubrick, but is entirely his own.
The film is a four-layered story, but the setting is not complicated. The main story takes place on the fourth layer, occasionally cut back to the third layer, and the stories of other layers do not advance or develop, but only as a perspective for storytelling. The story takes place in Europe in the 2nd and 30th. A legendary hotel lobby manager and his young protégé were accidentally involved in a dispute over family heritage. Following the collection and pursuit of a famous painting, they experienced love, murder, escape and war. The test finally left these experiences and wealth to a writer. The film is the director's tribute to the Austrian writer Zweig. The director said that although the story is not necessarily related to Zweig's books, what the film pursues is the unique Eastern European atmosphere and old European feelings in the novel "Yesterday's World".
British veteran acting leader Ralph Fiennes starred, the director’s good friends, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson continue to support the stage, even Jude Law, Actors Adrian Brody and William Dafoe are also willing to come here to serve as the foil, and the soy sauce is the famous European director and actor Matthew Amalek, and Léa Dusay, who just won the Palme d’Or, how do you say Well, the youngest characters in this film are all popular stars.
From the perspective of "The Grand Hotel", these dozens of characters have different personalities, and their costumes and performances are full of formality, which is both absurd and realistic enough. The actor is deeply possessed by the characters in the script, and the characters created are highly recognizable to the audience. This should be the real reason why the superstar surrounds Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes said that he liked the script once he read the script, so he chose the role of Gustav without hesitation.
Large areas of bright color blocks and color differences are used in the scenes and clothing, creating a strong visual experience; as the plot progresses, the strong contrast of light and shadow is used to express chase, chase and other scenes. When shooting in the German town of Gerritz, he put elements from all parts of early Europe into the big hotel to form a mix and match style.
In addition to the color, his lens movement and scheduling are also very special. First of all, almost every shot follows the characters and moves, as turbulent and smooth as a rushing river. Only when the characters are in relative motion, the camera will appear to be still-but in fact it is relatively still-for example, in a train or sitting on a carousel. Secondly, the movement of the camera is not affected by the actual geographical environment. It follows the movement of the character completely, sometimes following the vision of the character, subjective movement. Finally, the movement of the camera itself is also subjective, pushing and pulling rapidly, shaking rapidly, there is no taboo that the camera actively participates in the story, which coincides with the style of telling by narration. To sum it up, Wes Anderson’s shot scheduling has only one sentence-completely unstoppable.
