A magical thing about movies and that part that I really love about the art of movies are, that when we sit back and watch it, we are traveling trough a time and we are following a person like we were a fly on the wall.
Something that really annoys me is, that in a lot of films we are getting so much attached to the persons and worlds and when the movie ends, we are just left back in the movie theater, with a huge black hole in our heart and thinking: "Oh my life is over." I know this sound a bit weird but I actually said these words when the Twilight Saga ended, I thought I was going to die.
Literally... Since 2005 when the book came out i felt in love with the whole idea with Edward Cullen. That fangirl period is now over and I'm saving a lot of money on the account by not buying stupid merchandise like twilight stickers and Bella's engagement ring. (Yes i brought that..)
After Twilight ended I had used it as an inspiration, if you can call it that.
By listening to Beethoven, Vivaldi. Old musical classics as Phantom Of The Opera and the Sound Of Music. I also read Hamlet and the Great Gatsby and that is an important thing that I had learned from the Twilight Saga; To live in the present but learn and survive with help from the past.
History is my biggest passion and I often watch movies if they are old classics or have and historical angle. An example would be The Grand Budapest Hotel. It is one of my favorite movies.
Besides Back To The Future, which IS the best movie ever.
After i saw The Gand Budapest Hotel, I were in love with it, I love the style of the film, that just is remarkable. If you have not seen this movie: do it, this is a must.
In school we have a subject called media studies and it's about movies and how they are composed.
It is a really lovely subject and we are making our own films and watching old classics.
After having it at school I saw that movie and what I really laid my eyes on were, that when it starts, the screen is normal but when he tell us about the old 30's, the screen turns into the old square size, which were used in these days.
The movie is in color but that don't ruins the historical effect because the movie is so well managed, that the colors and design are the core of the movie.
One thing that is irritating me is that The Grand Budapest Hotel is not a real hotel or a real building.
Spoiler Alert: You Can’t Really Stay at the Real Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s latest movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a fictional murder-mystery-adventure-love story set in a sumptuous pink Eastern European hotel on the eve of World War II. Unfortunately for moviegoers who’d like to visit, the Grand Budapest Hotel doesn’t actually exist. It’s a miniature model. The hotel’s home base is also imaginary: the Republic of Zubrowka took its name from a Polish bison grass vodka.
Yet while neither country nor hotel is real, they look very … real. National Geographic interviewed set designer Adam Stockhausen to see how he went about creating the Grand Budapest Hotel and other locations in the movie, drawing from various European sites.
The Republic of Zubrowka was partially inspired by the spa city of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The production team didn’t actually film in Karlovy Vary but there are many visual references to the city in the movie.
“The town has a great quality to it. It has pastel-colored buildings along the river and several hotels in the hills above the town,” said Stockhausen. It had all the right elements but not in the right places. So the set designers created their own version.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was largely modeled on the Grandhotel Pupp. “There were some interesting interior details of the hotel that we liked, such as the wide corridors with carpet running down the center and windows that shone light into the hallways,” said Stockhausen.
Various other bits and bobs from Karlovy Vary made their way into the imaginary country. “There’s a funicular train [a cable railway used to ascend mountains] that we saw in Karlovy Vary and used in Zubrowka,” said Stockhausen. There’s also a chamois statue in Karlovy Vary, a similar statue was used on the movie poster.
But we will keep the dream alive and when I get rich, I would build a copy of the hotel, yeas that would be lovely...
Lots of happiness
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