FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Grand Illusion, Wes Anderson
Document Summary
Rise of a global crisis: cinema and wwii. Screening: night train to munich (uk; carol reed, 1940) Entering into 1930s and 1940s getting into issues of war newsreel footage, how news traveled and took on a stronger prevalence for people around the world. Looking back at europe war was maybe inevitable. Singing of french natinoal anthem weve seen before in key moment in. Casablanca out sings the germans scene of great pride casablanca scene direct allusion to grand illusion. This scene in casablanca portrayed by actors who fled from the crisis in. Europe, when they"re singing this in this scene, they are urging this very urgent moment in cinema, strong connection emotionally to what is happening. Perhaps you will be surprised by certain situations, certain scenes in the picture, showing french prisoners getting along pretty well with the germans. We must not forget that the story takes place in 1914, and in 1914 there was no hitler.
