The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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Pynchon did! except she was Maxine! 

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On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:33 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> A little sub-genre of its own - poor young man confronted with excessive wealth and loose morals of wealthy guests. I wish Pynchon had tackled it.  Un Perm au Casino Hermann Goering might be the closest he gets. Or is there something in ATD I'm forgetting?
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> Laura
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Monte Davis 
> Sent: Mar 22, 2014 2:24 PM 
> To: kelber 
> Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org" 
> Subject: Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 
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> LK>... other young men working in hotels in the early 20th century...
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> Kafka's Amerika
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> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Very entertaining, but I preferred Moonrise Kingdom. Certainly wouldn't argue with anyone who thinks this is Anderson's best, though.
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>> The movie was at its best when in stayed in the hotel. I loved the cheesy 60s decor in the opening scene. The non-hotel scenes, particularly the skiing sequence, were overly cute and generally weaker.
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>> When I first saw the trailer, I wondered if the movie was based on a very obscure but great novel called Temptation, by John Pen (a pen name for Janos Szekeley, aka John Toldy), which is a bout a young bellhop at a hotel in Budapest in the 1930s. But clearly, it's not (credits attribute it to Stefan Zweig, who I haven't read. Anyone?).
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>> Two other young men working in hotels in the early 20th century: The Confessions of Felix Krull, by Thomas Mann, and Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell. Both very entertaining.
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>> And of course there's the Garbo-Barrymore(J and L)- Crawford classic Grand Hotel (1932).
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>> Laura
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> >Sent: Mar 22, 2014 10:42 AM
>> >To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> >Subject: Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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>> >Thoroughly enjoyable. No great depth, but a gloriously zestful
>> >experience. Will probably go see it at the cinema again.
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>> >On 22/03/2014 13:19, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> >> Comments?
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