Rushfield Babylon
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THR reports that the auteur’s latest film Grand Budapest Hotel will be about :"a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé."
Clearly a huge departure from the Anderson palate. and we’re delighted to see he is extending his emotional range beyond the limited confines of tales about precocious young creative geniuses struggling with daddy issues.
The script has not yet been delivered to the Rushfield Babylon offices but our sources tell us the following other elements may play a role in Grand Budapest:
• A sullen young woman with dark eye make-up
• A talking wombat
• The word wombat
• A daring and sensational uncle named Francisco
• A giant sno-globe, in which the entire film is set
• A 300 foot tall Lite-Brite diorama of the Battle of Waterloo
• Bill Murray looking sad
• Silk scarves on men
• Phonographs
• Turntables
• Record players
• Tilda Swinton barely containing her simmering rage with cutting remarks.
• Critics on a scavenger hunt for the fearless emotional truth revealed within the jewel box design.
• Claudine Longet singing the text of The Little Prince
• An inventory of all the items above
• Corduroy
• Offhand references to Frederich Neitzsche
• Hamburglar type burglar masks
• Matching uniforms
• Calligraphy
How did watching Jersey Shore end up on the syllabus?
That was the week before I got there so I guess I don’t know the whole story about that. I guess the overall huge thing we do is a type of response to art. We’ll watch a show like Jersey Shore and the assignment will be “give me your creative response to this” and some people will write a story with themselves in it saying, “I’m sitting here watching Jersey Shore and it’s a piece of shit.” Or it could be a drunken antic that was inspired by Jersey Shore. So we are not studying film in Jersey Shore, it’s more like simply just responding to some type of art that people wouldn’t normally think is sophisticated.
”—A student of Professor James Franco’s screenwriting seminar on what she learned in his class offered at the University of California, Los Angeles.