WES ANDERSON

In The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, in the beginning pulls the audience back in time from the present to the past to the further past. What I find quite interesting about what Wes added in the Grand Budapest is the actual importance and voice of the Author.  We first come across the Author as an older man about in his late 50’s early 60’s and then he begins talking about how he came across the story and history of the grand Budapest and then we change time period again and we go back even further. I think the main reason Wes added the role of the Author was to commemorate the work that Stefan Zweig wrote for and work towards in his books. Even when the author is younger we see him come across the owner of the hotel, Zero. And from there we go back even further in time, its like inception but also not quite at that level?

And from there we see Zero’s troubles as a working immigrant in fragile time of the 1920’s/ 1930’s when WWII was about to break out. The borders in particular were pretty intense during that time, everyone was an enemy and if you were foreign and “illegal” this set you apart from everyone else. But when watching the Grand Budapest, we see how Mr. Gustave was so much more interested in him as a person than where he came from.  And by the end of the movie we see how intense and how dark morale people are about foreigners.