Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was quite an interesting movie. I happen to be a big fan of the visual style of his films. To put it lightly, he is a true filmmaker in every sense of the word. But I’m not here right now to give a full review of his career. Instead, I just wanted to display some pictures of the Grand Budapest Hotel model currently on display at the Hollywood ArcLight Cinemas in Los Angeles. It’s the actual one that was used in the film.
“For wide shots of the hotel, Anderson went with a nine foot tall handmade miniature model because he felt that, since audiences would know that the shot was artificial, computer-generated effects or otherwise, “The particular brand of artificiality that I like to use is an old-fashioned one.” He had previously used miniatures in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and more extensively in Fantastic Mr. Fox. In designing the hotel, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen did extensive research, looking at vintage images at the Library of Congress of hotels and European vacation spots, as well as existing locales such as the Grandhotel Pupp in the spa town of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic and the Grandhotel Gellért in Budapest. The model used varying scales: the hotel model was is 14 feet long and 7 feet deep, the tree-spotted hill on which it stood was a different scale, and finally the funicular railway in the foreground was built to a third scale to capture it best cinematically.”
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But before I get to the pictures, enjoy 24 hours at the Budapest Hotel (in 46 seconds).
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