The Grand Budapest Hotel

Satyam Patel
3 min readMay 16, 2021

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégée. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and sudden changes that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th Century.

Ralph Fiennes & Tony Revolori as M. Gustave & Lobby boy Zero Moustafa
Photographic Image of the miniature of The Grand Budapest Hotel

The star-studded movie has an amusing cast as Ralph Fiennes & Tony Revolori take on the leading role, opposed by Adrien Brody, William Dafoe in Negative roles respectfully, & Edward Norton as a supporting character playing a Government Official. It also includes appearance from Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel as various other characters who play an important role in the building of the story. A fun fact is that Wes Anderson managed to wrap the movie with a budget of US $25 Million with shooting done in USA & Germany. Majority of the movie was made via miniature effects and a bit with green screen.

It is a partly directly stop-animation movie by the genius Wes Anderson, who has given many classic animations where you can feel the characters emotions throughout the movie, the adult act like children and the…

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Satyam Patel

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