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| The Grand Budapest Hotel: first look at Wes Anderson's new movie | The Grand Budapest Hotel: first look at Wes Anderson's new movie |
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| Nothing gets us going more than the promise of a new Wes Anderson film. Will it be a funny as Rushmore? As inventive as Fantastic Mr Fox? As ambitious as The Royal Tenenbaums? Well, another one is on the way: The Grand Budapest Hotel, which despite its title seems to have less to do with Anderson's tenderly mysterious short film Hotel Chevalier than an amalgam of Anderson's predilection for jewel-box environments, giant major-name casts, and arch pseudo-professional patter. | Nothing gets us going more than the promise of a new Wes Anderson film. Will it be a funny as Rushmore? As inventive as Fantastic Mr Fox? As ambitious as The Royal Tenenbaums? Well, another one is on the way: The Grand Budapest Hotel, which despite its title seems to have less to do with Anderson's tenderly mysterious short film Hotel Chevalier than an amalgam of Anderson's predilection for jewel-box environments, giant major-name casts, and arch pseudo-professional patter. |
| That's not to say The Grand Budapest Hotel doesn't look great: we can safely say this is a return to the mentor/apprentice relationship that Anderson has done so well before. Here, Ralph Fiennes, not immediately recognisable in a rather impressive 'tache, is chef d'hotel Gustave H, a devil with the mature guests and, as the trailer, reveals, the beneficiary of one such in her will. His pupil is the yet-to-be-heralded Tony Revolori. Anderson's plan here seems to be to jam together Rushmore's institution-reverence with Moonrise Kingdom's chase histrionics - but I could be wrong, of course. That's the beauty of trailers. And what's with the Academy ratio - is he trying to get some of that Meek's Cutoff/Wuthering Heights roughness? | That's not to say The Grand Budapest Hotel doesn't look great: we can safely say this is a return to the mentor/apprentice relationship that Anderson has done so well before. Here, Ralph Fiennes, not immediately recognisable in a rather impressive 'tache, is chef d'hotel Gustave H, a devil with the mature guests and, as the trailer, reveals, the beneficiary of one such in her will. His pupil is the yet-to-be-heralded Tony Revolori. Anderson's plan here seems to be to jam together Rushmore's institution-reverence with Moonrise Kingdom's chase histrionics - but I could be wrong, of course. That's the beauty of trailers. And what's with the Academy ratio - is he trying to get some of that Meek's Cutoff/Wuthering Heights roughness? |
| What do you think? Does this trailer make you desperate to see Anderson's new film? Or break out in hives at the exquisiteness of it all? Feel free to comment below. | What do you think? Does this trailer make you desperate to see Anderson's new film? Or break out in hives at the exquisiteness of it all? Feel free to comment below. |
| • Wes Anderson and Ed Norton on Moonrise Kingdom: 'I would like to be Joseph Cotten to his Orson Welles' | • Wes Anderson and Ed Norton on Moonrise Kingdom: 'I would like to be Joseph Cotten to his Orson Welles' |
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