What is The Grand Budapest Hotel's creative background? What works are similar to their themes?

The Grand Budapest Hotel's Creative Background

1, character background

The hero is Gustav, the lobby manager in the movie. He is very popular with customers who are blond, rich, old, sensitive and vain, and uses his clever tongue and body to satisfy their roles. Gustav himself said when he was scolded that he was not gay, but probably bisexual, which also implied that his job was to meet everyone's spiritual needs. And the object of his satisfaction is the elite and aristocratic men and women in this society. This is actually a self-portrait of Zweig. Before World War II, Zweig was a popular writer in Austria. His works are very practical and humanized. The so-called care, in short, is a very positive interaction with society and tradition. This cultural interaction is reflected in the film in a vulgar way that everyone can understand and accept, and it is the best embodiment of realistic care and humanitarian care. This figure embodies the shadow of two European figures.

2. Walter Benjamin and Stefan Zweig

Not to mention the original author Zweig, an Austrian writer in exile, a Jew and a defender of European traditional culture, was persecuted by Nazi Germany and finally committed suicide in Brazil. The Grand Budapest Hotel is actually talking about the decline of traditional European civilization. Specifically, it is about the history of Jewish exile. More precisely, it is an autobiography about Zweig leaving his declining spiritual home and dying of a broken heart.

? German walter benjamin is the most important philosopher, critic and "the last scholar in Europe" in the 20th century. He was persecuted by Nazi Germany and finally committed suicide in Spain. I don't know why he is important. Anyway, in European academic circles, he is always regarded as a great god. Benjamin lamented the disappearance of traditional narrative techniques in the Storyteller-Essays on Nikolai Leskov's Works. The Grand Budapest Hotel adopts a four-layer storytelling structure, and always presents an immersive storytelling process. A story can't be separated from the storyteller and the listener, and it can't be separated from their simultaneous environment. This is a tribute to Benjamin's thought.

3. Social background

In 1930s, with the deepening of industrialization, the world war and the rise of Nazi, everything related to humanistic care, humanistic care and practical care declined rapidly, while rational, centralized, modern and fast food things rose. Europe, a land with profound cultural heritage, was ravaged by iron hoofs, raped spiritually and developed materially, but the tradition died out, lost and human nature became indifferent. People are used to saying what others say, and no longer appreciate literature and art with their heart, let alone think, examine and explore, which directly leads to a gorgeous speech that can make countless fanatics go to war, and also leads to the sorrow of those conscientious authors. Benjamin and Zweig's suicide is a kind of martyrdom. But in wartime, these people still want to continue to write, lament and commit suicide, which is remarkable.

In the era of novels, newspapers, telephones, telegrams and television, the relationship between people has been replaced by the media, people hide themselves behind microphones, and communication has decreased. Compared with the spreading mode and environment of myths, epics and fairy tales, the reality that writers and listeners gather to tell stories has been changed. In the past, a story needed everyone to get together and pass it on from mouth to mouth. This process needs to integrate the experience of storytellers and listeners. In the modern world, an isolated writer, in his isolated attic, has no emotional mass-produced works to meet the needs of a group. Practical nursing gradually disappeared. With the disappearance of practical care, the spiritual pillar of European culture collapsed.

4. Cultural background

The name "The Grand Budapest Hotel" makes people think that the story took place in Hungary. Although the hotel industry in Hungary is very developed, you can rent a villa for 10 thousand forint, but the content of the film seems to have nothing to do with Hungary. The film was shot in Germany, and the original metaphor is Austria between 19 18 and 1938.

Austria, Little Paris, the heart of European culture and art, the cradle of European spiritual thought, is also the place where Hitler's "Crystal Night" slaughtered Jews to burn books and bury Confucianism. The scene of the story is Zweig's own country.

If we study the historical reasons, we all know that the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not disintegrate before 19 18, but was composed of Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries and regions.

5. Synopsis

The Grand Budapest Hotel's films took place in Europe from 1930s to 1960s. The films revolved around a legendary hotel porter and his young disciples. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is famous far and near and has an endless stream of guests, Mr. Gustav, the porter, has experienced many bohemian things, including the theft of priceless famous paintings, property disputes of aristocratic families and other absurd anecdotes; Not only that, he also used this luxury hotel to witness the smoke of war in Europe for half a century.

Step 6 cast

The whole play is a big name, and the cast has become strong and abnormal.

Gustav is played by Ralph Vannes, a melancholy historian in The English Patient, an introverted serial killer in Hannibal the Red Dragon, an evil Voldemort in Harry Potter and a cold-blooded concentration camp commander in Schindler's List. In addition, he also played countless classic roles and was nominated for Best Actor at two Oscars.

Adrien Brody, a Jew who lost his mind in The Pianist, and Dmitry, a villain played by worried Bai Xiude in Xiaogang Feng's film 1942. At that time, the sunny, bright and melancholy appearance could win the praise of the youngest winner in Oscar history.

Henkes, a police officer, is played by Edward Harrison Norton, an inarticulate biologist, a shy husband, a Hulk, a split personality in a fight club, and so on.

Writer and actor Jude Law, Vassili in Enemy at the Gates, Artificial Intelligence, Cold Mountain, Sherlock Holmes, etc.

The thug Joplin is played by the emotional villain willem dafoe in Spider-Man, as well as Pai, Speed, The English Patient and so on.

Mathieu amalric's housekeeper Serge was called the best French actor by the great director.

A film with a theme similar to that of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

In 2007, there was a film with a similar theme, I Serve the King of England, but it was not the same as The Grand Budapest Hotel in depth and connotation. Generally speaking, it is also a funny historical film.

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by bohumil hrabal, the most famous contemporary Czech writer (who died in 1997), and reviews the 20-year history of Europe from the perspective of Di Tie, a hotel waiter in Prague.

Small dieters are not short. Through his cleverness, diligence and diligence, and the constant care of the God of Destiny, he started from a mobile peddler selling sausages with barrels at the railway station, and then to an ordinary waiter, foreman and lobby foreman who served dishes ... He stepped into the peak of success in the turbulent social changes, and finally became the owner of the most luxurious hotel in Prague, leading a life of drunkenness.