NP - Grand Budapest Hotel: BIT OF A SPOILER

[Monte Davis]

Doors opening and closing at high speed: yes, plenty of that. GBH is pure
delight, a Mendl's pastry of movies, with a very Pynchonian shadowing of
the real, dark Mitteleuropan 1930s at every edge and corner of the
comic-opera (indeed, you should forgive the expression, Sigmund Romberg)
frame.
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My own fantasy would be to have Wes Anderson *and* Paul Thomas Anderson
collaborate on the movie of AtD, with the former doing the urbane hotel /
resort / department-store twittery, and the latter (in 'There Will Be Blood
' mode) doing the Webb Traverse Western and Balkan spy passages.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> Haven't seen the film yet, looking forwards to it after reading your
> opinions, but from what you just said also the scene in AtD with Kit, and
> ins and outs of some  'pensione', or something like that. Doors opening and
> closing. At high speed.
>
>
> Elisabeth
>
> Sendt fra min iPhone
>
> > Den 26. juli 2014 kl. 00:49 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> >
> > A movie that so nicely embodies, via wayback location shooting, its main
> theme: the historic loss of a fuller social humanity.
> >
> > The gun fight late in the movie is a marvelous metaphor---for the
> happenstances that can led to WAR.    A shot is fired.......and everyone
> comes out of rooms and starts shooting....reminded me of WW1....
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:31 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just watched it.  Fun and funny.
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