2:16 When the Soviets took over nothing could be too grand, risked being too decadent, or too much like the old world they were trying to break away from. So, unfortunately, a lot of things looked drag, bleak or dull. But to keep the balance, we feel that same sort of sadness when we see the ZZ (a swastika/nazi/fascist) reference flags hanging all over the hotel as we do when we see how dressed down the hotel had become by the 60s. Throughout it all though, the hotels uniforms remain the same.
Really interesting you mention Raph Fiennes swearing even though he seem like such a refined person. Someone had to point this out to me but in this movie all the "lower class" blue collar characters like Zero and Agatha never say a single swear but then character like M. Gustave and Dmitri swear like sailors. Another really cool detail in all Wes Anderson movies is that almost all the character talk in this very formal, matter-of-fact manner but then when they fight, they fight like 5 years old on a playground. Also a really cool detail is that in the last scene of the flashback, that's in black n white, Zero's mustache is real, showing time has passed.
"It was an enchanting old ruin... but I never managed to see it again." Wonderful reaction to one of my favourite movies, so funny and beautiful and sad all in one package. Hope you are feeling better and really looking forward to your reaction to 'Gladiator'!
Thank you so much for watching! Feeling much better, recorded Gladiator reaction last night and can't wait to release it on Saturday, it's a good one :)
This had 9 Oscar nominations. It won 4 of them, for original music, production design, makeup, and costume design, and it was also nominated for best picture, best director for Wes Anderson, best original screenplay, cinematography, and editing.
My fav movie when sick is Kind Hearts and Cornonets. It always makes me smile. It's an old British film, actually the very first black comedy, perhaps the first true anti-hero as a lead charachter, it really started the genre. The main female charachter so upset the USA censors that they demanded most of her lines be cut, she was to independant for them. They also insisted on a new ending to the film as they thought the British one immoral. Oh and it's got the magnificent Alec Guiness ( the original Obi-Wan Kenobi ) playing eight different roles. The orginal UK version was recently released in 4K. it's a must watch for any film buff, yet no reactor ever seems to have reacted to it. Rotton Tomatoes gives it a score of 100% Audiance rating of 94% and on IMDB it's 8 out of 10, which is very high score for IMDB.
Wonderful reaction. Always find Wes Anderson's work has an engaging and transporting quality to it - stories that ask very little of you except that you're willing to go along for the ride. Tenderness and sadness, but a delightful sense of humour. Glad you liked the movie. I've never thought of it before, but I bet a lot of his filmography would make good sick day viewing - he mostly keeps the runtime down to an hour + 30 or 45 minutes so you're not exhausted by the end, and the sort of stable, well-framed shots he uses are never disorienting/nauseating (unlike the action in a lot of movies over the past few decades).
I was delighted by this movie. And I enjoyed editing it and rewatching it through that process a little too much 🤣! It was a great sick day movie and just phenomenal in general, I can’t wait to watch more Wes Anderson films
The movie I think was based off some of Stefan Zweig's work in particular, though I don't think there's anything that really follows this plot line. But more than that - it has the same sort of feeling of Stefan Zweig's work. Amazing they were able to combine it with the feeling of the 1920s and 30s screwball comedies. In a lot of Zweig's work, the narrator is reflecting on something that happened to them. Often, it's a case of someone meeting somebody while travelling, and the second person telling them what lead them there and their life story, the first narrator is simply writing down everything the narrator told them i.e. Royal Game, Amok. Letter From an Unknown Woman doesn't really count since it's all been told in a letter to someone we were just introduced. The movie somehow managed to capture or at least replicate that sort of sadness in memory and storytelling that we get from his books. Some reckon M. Gustav H was based in a way off Zweig himself, and I can definitely see M. Gustav saying the words Zweig left in his suicide note. Zweig was able to get out of Europe in time (he was Jewish) before the Nazis fully took over, but he killed himself with his wife soon after WW2 ended. Either it was sadness over the news from Europe, or it was news of where Europe was heading, or just feeling sad about how the world he had known and been a part of didn't seem to exist anymore, or it could have just been a case of not wanting to go on. Either way, he left a sad but very courteous suicide note.
To add to this comment, Zweig and wife Lotte killed themselves in 1942, he because of what you mentionned, but being also convinced that the nazis were going to win, and that either ways, Europe had destroyed itself twice, and Lotte because of her health condition (something regarding her lungs I think)
It was really nice to enjoy that with you. I do hope we won’t have to wait until next time you’re under the weather to get more Wes Anderson. His movies are also very lovely to watch when you’re well (which I hope you are soon if not already). I don’t know what ailment you have, but if that’s how you look while sick with it, I want some. 😉 🗝
5:54 He makes rich but lonely old women feel like they're cared for, makes them feel appreciated and like he enjoys their company. Plus, they're older, they have a lifetime of experiences, they know what they're doing.
There's a South African movie I love. It's called ROAD TO YOUR HEART (PAD NA JOU HEART, 2014). It's well worth enduring the subtitles. And there's a twist that actually occurs in reality in 2019.
Hi Lipps I've always wanted to watch this film but just never got round to it, wow quite the cast in this film will have to definitely have to give it a watch, anyway hope you feel better soon oh and been enjoying your GTA San Andreas play through's , also for me clicking on the Twitter link in the description and about page it tells me the account doesn't exist, do you have another twitter page that I could follow.
oh my gosh, I must have forgotten to update that link ages ago!! twitter.com/Lippsmacker I highly recommend this movie, it was such a treat to watch. And to rewatch while editing.
