What do you need to know to understand the plot of "The Grand Budapest Hotel"?

The story takes place in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. A legendary hotel lobby manager and his young protégé accidentally get involved in a dispute over family inheritance.

With the hiding and pursuit of a famous painting, he experienced the tests of love, murder, prison escape and war, and finally left these experiences and wealth to a writer. The film is the director's tribute to the Austrian writer Zweig. The director said that although the story is not necessarily related to Zweig's book, the film pursues the unique Eastern European atmosphere and old European feelings in the novel "The World of Yesterday".

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Production

The film is inspired by the work of two comedy giants of the last century, Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch. Films, especially the latter's "You and I Run" and "The Shop on the Corner" ("The Corner" takes place in Budapest), as well as the film directed by Ruben Mamoulian and starring Maurice Chevalier "The Romantic History of Red Mansions".

When photographing the lobby in the 1960s, fluorescent lights were deliberately hung on the ceiling to distinguish it from the colors of the 1930s. "The colors are warm in the 1930s, with lots of practical lighting and nice skylights. It feels more open overall."

Director and cinematographer Robert Yeoman also shot in different aspect ratios Different eras. In the 1960s, 16:9 widescreen was used, in the 1930s, the then-popular standard ratio of 1.37:1 was used, and in the 1980s, 1.85:1 academy widescreen was used.

The conversion of proportions brings intuitively different feelings to the three eras. In the 1930s, which occupies the largest space, the picture has a stronger sense of verticality and horizontality, the space is more stretched, and the characters can move with ease in it. Three eras, three narrators, layer upon layer of flashbacks, connected from beginning to end

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