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The Wes Anderson Collection The Grand Budapest Hotel

Matt Zoller Seitz

This book, part of the Learn all about the film’s conception, hear personal anecdotes from the set, and explore the wide variety of sources that inspired the screenplay and imagery—from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes of turn-of-the-century Middle Europe.

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The Daily

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The host described the richly illustrated Wes Anderson Collection as a book about the filmmaker that sat on the coffee table in Bailey's living room.

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The Wes Anderson Collection, Matt Zoller's site's richly illustrated book about the movie director's work, sat on the coffee table.

— Episode: The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’

Episode: The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’

The host described the richly illustrated Wes Anderson Collection as a book about the filmmaker that sat on the coffee table in Bailey's living room.

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The Wes Anderson Collection, Matt Zoller's site's richly illustrated book about the movie director's work, sat on the coffee table.

99% Invisible

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99% Invisible

It was mentioned in relation to the design of a notebook for the character Gustav, which was initially without lines and later changed at the actor's request.

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When I was working on The Grand Budapest Hotel, I had to make a little notebook for Ralph Fiennes' character Gustav.

— Episode: Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Tel...

Episode: Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television

It was mentioned in relation to the design of a notebook for the character Gustav, which was initially without lines and later changed at the actor's request.

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When I was working on The Grand Budapest Hotel, I had to make a little notebook for Ralph Fiennes' character Gustav.

And Gustav is a very precise character. And when Ralph Fiennes came in for his costume fitting, he had his notebook and all the other props that he needed for his character. He just noticed that there were no lines in the notebook, which made him a notebook with blank pages.

So we took the prop back up to the studio and we remade the notebook and we sent it back down again with lines and that was fine.

But then after the film came out and I started doing some magazine interviews about designing graphic props, I used this as an example because I thought it was quite interesting and quite a good example of the level of detail that we actually go into.

But of course, all the journalists heard was that I was saying that Ralph Fiennes is some kind of diva.

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