THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
Description
As you watch The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), observe how all 4 of the components of mise-en-scene (setting, costumes and makeup, lighting, staging) work together in the film to shape the narrative and define character personalities, relationships, and conflicts.
Director Wes Anderson is known for creating “quirky,” fantastical and hyper-intricate production design in his films. (“Production design” refers to the overall visual concept of a film, including its locations and set architecture, lighting and color schemes, set decorations and props, costumes and makeup, et al.) Anderson’s approach involves using older, more time-consuming, and currently less popular methods for creating a film’s settings, such as constructing scale models and executing practical effects rather than using CGI/computer animation.
For your Screening Journal entry, describe the production design and overall “look” of The Grand Budapest Hotel In doing so, address one or more of these questions:
What do you think director Wes Anderson and his collaborators are attempting to accomplish with their mise-en-scene and visual design?
How does the film’s mise-en-scene contribute to the overall tone or emotional atmosphere of the narrative?
What are we, the audience, meant to think or feel about the film’s characters and their experiences, based on the mise-en-scene?
How does this highly distinctive mise-en-scene convey information, emotions, and meaning?
Instructions:
Your journal entry must be between 250 and 500 words long. Do not summarize the film’s story or premise; focus on making an original, concentrated analysis.
Choose only a couple key points to discuss, and examine them in close detail.
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