The Grand Budapest Hotel is loosely based on the events leading up to and including World War II while combining dark undertones, planimetric framing, stylized acting, and mood lighting to transcend various levels of time and locations in order to establish a basis of confusion, amusement, and diversion all at the same time by cutting from scene to scene in a planimetric but also story telling fashion from setting to setting giving the audience joyful memories littered with sadness as the main characters reminisce. ... After having the most interesting boredom for the first three minutes of t...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contemporary film making. - German Expressionism and Formalism, both of which occurred in the 1910's and mainly in the 1920's. ... Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional actors, but used amateurs who were asked to draw on the experience of their own lives) rather than fully developed characters, he created a forceful, incessant logic for this story of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of Battleship Potemkin. ...

• Word Count: 2143
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate