WES ANDERSON AND

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

BY (N)ANA
WHO IS WES ANDERSON?
AMERICAN FILMMAKER
MAY 1, 1969 (54 YEARS OLD)
WES ANDERSON'S POPULAR MOVIES

ISLE OF DOGS (2018) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009) THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
(2004)

THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007) MOONRISE KINGDOM (2014) THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
 FORMALISM

KEY ELEMENTS OF WES ANDERSON STYLE

SYMMETRY
BOLD COLORS
QUIRKY CHARACTERS
NOSTALGIA
SLOW-MOTION
 OFFBEAT CHARACTERS

THE QUIRK IN WESANDERSON MOVIES

WES ANDERSON’S SOUNDTRACKS
CLASSIC ROCK(60S/70S) SENSE OF NOSTALGIA

DAVID BOWIE
ROLLING STONES
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
CLASSICAL MUSIC SENSE OF CONECTION
MOZART
SCHUBERT
WES ANDERSON AND SEU JORGE'S FRIENDSHIP
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)
ASTEROID CITY (2023)
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT AND MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
WES ANDERSON’S TREND
WES ANDERSON AI GENERATOR

AWA
ACIDENTALLY WES ANDERSON
WES ANDERSON’S TREND
TIKTOK'S TREND ("WES ANDERSONIZE" YOUR ROTINE)
CONCLUSION

WES ANDERSON'S UNIQUE STYLE HAS HAD A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON

CONTEMPORARY CINEMA AND POPULAR CULTURE. BY STUDYING HIS WORK
AND INCORPORATING HIS TECHNIQUES INTO OUR OWN CREATIVE PROJECTS,
WE CAN CREATE WORK THAT IS BOTH VISUALLY STRIKING AND EMOTIONALLY
RESONANT. WHETHER WE ARE FILMMAKERS, DESIGNERS, OR WRITERS, THERE
IS SOMETHING TO BE LEARNED FROM WES ANDERSON'S UNIQUE APPROACH
TO STORYTELLING.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
ABOUT THE FILM
REPUBLIC OF ZUBROWKA (FICTIONAL EUROPEAN
COUNTRY)
THE FILM IS NARRATED BY ZERO MOUSTAFA
1930S
WHEN ONE OF HIS WEALTHY AND ELDERLY GUESTS
DIES, GUSTAVE INHERITS A VALUABLE PAINTING
CALLED BOY WITH APPLE
CAST
- RALPH FIENNES AS M. GUSTAVE
- TONY REVOLORI AS ZERO MOUSTAFA GUSTAVE
- F. MURRAY ABRAHAM AS THE OLDER
ZERO MOUSTAFA
MADAME D.
- ADRIEN BRODY AS DMITRI DESGOFFE- ZERO
UND-TAXIS
- WILLEM DAFOE AS J.G. JOPLING
AGATHA
- JEFF GOLDBLUM AS DEPUTY KOVACS
- SAOIRSE RONAN AS AGATHA
- TILDA SWINTON AS MADAME D. DMITRI
VISUAL
HIGHLY STYLIZED
COLORFUL PRODUCTION
SENSE OF BALANCE AND ORDER IN THE FRAME
RECEPTION
FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
CONCLUSION

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL IS A VISUALLY STUNNING AND

EMOTIONALLY RESONANT FILM THAT SHOWCASES WES
ANDERSON'S UNIQUE STYLE AND SENSIBILITY. IT IS A MUST-SEE FOR
FANS OF ANDERSON'S WORK, AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO
APPRECIATES BEAUTIFUL CINEMATOGRAPHY AND MASTERFUL
STORYTELLING.
THIS PRESENTATION WAS
DIRECTED BY

Wes Anderson