{"id":155,"date":"2025-09-09T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:50:20","slug":"everything-you-dont-see-wes-andersons-the-grand-budapest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/2025\/09\/09\/everything-you-dont-see-wes-andersons-the-grand-budapest-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Don&#8217;t See: Wes Anderson&#8217;s &#8220;The Grand Budapest Hotel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwDfxYDSeDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it simply, I&#8217;ve never seen a Wes Anderson movie that wasn&#8217;t an absolute visual masterpiece; The Grand Budapest Hotel is certainly no exception. It is so aesthetically pleasing and unique, thanks to his creative use of color, filming techniques, and overall detail to the mise-en-sc\u00e8ne of the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an aspiring director, I always find it very exciting to see the behind the scenes of how certain scenes were shot and how certain ideas came to life in front of the camera. The video that I have attached above shows a glimpse into that process. It shows a variety of moments during the filming where Wes was discussing his visions for specific shots, set design and how they pulled off certain scenes, and makeup and costume procedures. I was surprised to see just how much effort and manpower goes into scenes that at first may seem more simplistic. During even a basic walking scene there were 5-6 people behind the camera carrying lights, microphones, and other important things for it to come out as good as it does. Or during a sit down conversation in the movie where the camera had to be spun around in certain way. It made me appreciate the movie and all the beautiful parts of it even more, because there was so much thought and passion put into it that most of the time we don&#8217;t get to see. It&#8217;s much more effective to see it than read about it, but I do strongly suggest to watch it if you&#8217;re interested in that area of film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To put it simply, I&#8217;ve never seen a Wes Anderson movie that wasn&#8217;t an absolute visual masterpiece; The Grand Budapest Hotel is certainly no exception. It is so aesthetically pleasing and unique, thanks to his creative use of color, filming techniques, and overall detail to the mise-en-sc\u00e8ne of the movie. As an aspiring director, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[48,47],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searcher","category-week-3-9-89-10-mise-en-scene","tag-behindthescenes","tag-thegrandbudapesthotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}