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The real Budapest Hotel
Not in Hungary
And in Germany
Won the Oscar for Best Art, Best Costume, Best Makeup, three visual categories, won the Berlin Film Festival Jury Prize... "The Grand Budapest Hotel", which set off a global boom in Wes Anderson, is still sought after 7 years and has influenced the lives of countless photographers and ordinary people.
Some people look for Wes Anderson's "same style" in reality, some people decorate the house like it is in the movie, and some people specialize in this aesthetic — Wes Anderson's distinctive visual style: symmetrical composition, vertical perspective, high saturation and warm colors, a dream that makes people confused between dreams and reality.
This aesthetic can be said to have reached the top in "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
Recently, Chinese edition of The Grand Budapest Hotel: The Collection of Wes Anderson's Works was published. As soon as the original was launched overseas, it was listed in the Amazon art bestseller TOP1 and was called an "Oscar" level work like a movie.
The book contains a lot of exclusive information about the film. For example, whether there is this big hotel in reality, how the costumes that won the Oscar are made, whether the big names are involved in it...
A true classic is worth studying over and over again, and it is both heavy and in no way short of fun, as is the case with The Grand Budapest Hotel. We have picked out 10 very interesting details to share with you.
01
For inspiration,
The crew went to these places
Vienna, Berlin, and Munich are three cities that Wes Anderson loves and visits many times, and they are closely related to the art design of the film.
Berlin
In addition, the crew made special trips to spa towns in Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Czech Republic
02
Czech spa town
The Nabesbad in the film is born from the image of Karlovy Vary, a Czech spa town.
Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary is located in the western part of the Czech Republic and is a famous spa. Legend has it that king Charles IV of the Czech Republic accidentally found warm spring water while hunting deer, which was tested to be effective in many diseases. Hence the name of the town "Karlovy Vary", i.e. "Charlie's Spa".
Today, the spa attracts quite a few visitors to Karlovy Vary, and every two years the Czech Republic hosts an international film festival here. It has become a tangible tourist city.
The Imperial Hotel in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, is one of the inspirations for the Grand Budapest Hotel
03
There really is such a building in reality
Does Grand Budapest Hotel?
Of course, the Grand Budapest Hotel is not in the Czech Republic, nor in Hungary. Wes Anderson converted an old shopping mall in Görlitz, Germany, into the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Stills from "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Interior real-life ©️budgettraveller
Görlitz is a city located half in the German state of Saxony and half in Poland. It was not destroyed by World War II, and the city's thousands of ancient buildings are very well preserved, and it is a very beautiful city, known as the "Pearl of Lower Silesia".
The Oscar-nominated film The Reader, starring Kate Winslet, was also filmed in the city.
Görlitz
Madame D's mansion is also located in Saxony. It is the Heinewald Castle in the village of Heinewald, which was built in 1392 as a concentration camp for political prisoners.
Heinewald Castle
04
The costumes in the movie have a very contemporary atmosphere
How was it made?
The film's costume designer, Milena Canionero, is a well-known master in the industry, and before "The Grand Budapest Hotel", she won three Oscars for best costume design, namely "Barry Linden", "Chariot of Fire" and "The Magnificent Queen". "Clockwork Orange", "The Shining", "The Godfather 3", and Polanski's "Killing" are also her works.
This time she referenced many of the records of German and Austrian artists and writers before World War II, as well as photographs by German photographer August Sander.
It's impossible to buy the same one, as most of the costumes are made in her own studio.
However, the Berlin-based theater art costume company also undertook part of the production, and the uniforms in the film were entrusted to the Křzystov Costume Workshop under the Polish Hero Garment Company.
05
Have you purchased some of your clothing?
In addition to customization, Milena also purchased some antiques. She generously shared her favorite shop: an antique shop in Berlin called "Mimi".
06
Are there luxury brands involved?
Mrs. D has a mysterious and eerie sense of luxury, and this atmosphere is inseparable from her costume. Madame D's hand cage, cloak, and hat were all made by Milena with Fendi.
Fendi helped the Grand Budapest Hotel considerably. It also made Edward Norton's gray lambskin coat. And all the fur materials in the film, provided by Fendi.
The suitcase in the movie, designed by Wes's good friend Miuccia Prada, is lined with lilac satin and the metal part is made of brass. There are special security guards to manage these boxes at the time of shooting.
07
Inspiration for cinematic aesthetics?
1) Works by the 19th-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. His paintings provide quite a few references for the film's sets and fine art.
Morning in the Riesengebirge, Caspar David Friedrich
2) Weiss likes to search for color restored photos on the Library of Congress website. These photographs recreate the European landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly showing the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Prussia.
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Art Director Adam Stockhausen
What movies are referenced?
If you like the Weiss style, you may also be able to check out these important references.
In Hitchcock's "Breaking Through the Iron Curtain" in 1966, one of the scenes was recreated almost from one shot to another in "The Grand Budapest Hotel". (Although douban does not score high, it is one of Hitchcock's most popular works)
Silence directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1963. Weiss referenced the design of the corridors of the hotel.
In addition, Michael Powell's "General of the Hundred Battles" and Ernst Liu Beiqian's "You Run Away and I Flee" and "Street Corner Shop" have also been closely focused.
These old films have a sense of interlacing of illusory reality, which is also what "The Grand Budapest Hotel" has.
09
About the Boy with the Apple
This is an important thread throughout the film. In the setting, it is a Renaissance painting by the painter Johannes van Hoyt Jr. In fact, the real knifeman was the British painter Michael Taylor. The boy is also a man named Ed Monroe, a dancer from england.
10
Beyond aesthetics,
What was this movie born for?
Wes believes that Zweig is his collaborator, and all this story comes from Zweig— the Austrian novelist who left masterpieces such as "Letter from a Strange Girl" and "Anxiety of the Heart" that inspired future artists like Weiss.
Weiss loves his short story and memoir "Yesterday's World" the most, and he has repeatedly talked about the influence of "The Anxiety of the Heart" and "The Confusion of Emotions" on him.
To learn more about Wes's story style, look at Zweig.
Letter from a Strange Woman, 1948
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Original title: "10 Secrets you don't know about the Grand Budapest Hotel"