The Grand Budapest Hotel
The calling card of Wes Anderson is to never cheat the audience on what they’re seeing. If we see a room of 3,000 frosting-pink cardboard boxes, each wrapped in a pastel blue bow, then soneone was in charge of personalizing 3,000 frosting-pink boxes. The most incredible story about the making of The Grand Budapest Hotel is finding the hotel itself. Location scouts scoured the old haunts of the rich and powerful of the late 1800s/early 1900s for a decaying hotel, and they eventually found a department store in Görlitz, Germany. The production team completely renovated the site, transforming this mammoth run-down building into a red-carpeted, pink-wall extravaganza. The result is a work of art — something that needs to be experienced to fully appreciate.