Ralph Fiennes gave a brilliant lead performance as Gustave, the courtly and womanizing concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel. One of the major ones β and I will admit right now that this will seem minor to some of you β is that halfway through the film, a cat is killed. Kovacs runs to window and sees his dead cat splattered on the sidewalk belowβ¦.
The film was saying that Dimitri and Jopling were evil and dangerous, as their actions throughout the film would demonstrate. It was the audience that decided, since Grand Budapest Hotel is full of funny moments and has the off-center style that one has come to expect from Wes Anderson, that meant every scene in the film was meant to be played strictly for laughs. The fact of the matter is that a typical Wes Anderson film will always attract a certain type of hipster douchebag.
They were the ones who loudly laughed, mostly because they had spent the entire movie laughing loudly in order to make sure that everyone around them understood that they were in on the joke.
Despite what you may have heard and what the Golden Globes would have you believe , The Grand Budapest Hotel is not a comedy. For all the deliberately funny and quirky moments, The Grand Budapest Hotel is actually a very serious film. When I first saw The Grand Budapest Hotel , it seemed like it was almost too quirky for its own good.
The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that the most important scenes in The Grand Budapest Hotel were to be found at the beginning and the end of the film. The film opens with a teenage girl sitting in front of the grave of a great author. She opens a book and starts to read. As soon as the girl starts to read, we flashback 29 years to where the author Tom Wilkinson sits behind his office desk and starts to talk about the time that he visited the Grand Budapest Hotel.
