1) What did the film look and sound like?

2) What are the aural (sound) and visual elements of the film? Talk about their contribution to the film's overall success or failure. Keep in mind, the visual and aural qualities and properties of the film medium determines the effectiveness of a motion picture.

3.Examine the filmmaker's use of camera angles and camera movement, focus, framing, lighting, setting, editing, point of view, special effects, dialogue, and music.

4.What is the filmmaker's purpose in making the film? Is it to instruct? Make us aware of an issue? Is the filmmaker trying to persuade us to his/her point of view (ideology)? Is the filmmaker merely entertaining us with a story? Is the filmmaker trying to make us think? To scare us out of complacency or scare us just for the thrill of scaring us? Each film and filmmaker is different.

5.After exploring these major cinematic elements and describing specific examples of their use, include your personal reactions to the film and explain your reasons for liking or disliking it.

1.Budapest is a story about memory and loss, and so its form accurately reflects its content. Zero, the narrator at the center of the story, is in a constant state of grieving over Agatha, and the mental blocks he has erected around his memories of her manifest themselves in the film's distant treatment of her character. On the other hand, Zero keeps his memories of Gustave H. very much alive in his mind, which is why he is the character that the audience gets to know best by the end of the film.

2.Sound in film consists of three major components: dialogue, music, and sound effects. Dialogue is the most obvious contributor to the plot and characterization, since that is where the audience gets most of their information from. Aside from the actual words, other factors in dialogue can include pacing or emphasis. Music does not contribute as much to the story, aside from musicals, but it probably does the most to influence the mood and general feel of the film. As Goodykoontz and Jacobs write, most music "is really just an artificial convention to help manipulate audience response" (sec. 8.2). It has no effect on the characters, but everything to do with the listener. The same film could feel completely different if the score was somber or bouncy. Sound effects, on the other hand, might not get noticed much if they are natural and fit with the scene, but they also contribute to the feel of the film, and since most of them are diegetic, which means they exist in the world of the story , they can certainly influence characters and events.

3.The Grand Budapest Hotel, director Wes Anderson employs several techniques related to mise-en-scene including lighting, depth of field, and narrative editing to ensure that the audience experiences events in a way that reflects Zero's emotionally tinged memories of them.  The Grand Budapest Hotel is a stunning visual work of art, with different color palettes representing certain characters or locations. With all the wealth of color it can be easy to ignore the non-visual elements, as I did the first time around. Watching it a second time and focusing exclusively on the sound, it was clear how the sound complemented the visuals, making a coherent and harmonious movie. The most noticeable use of sound is the music-it has an overall whimsical, upbeat sound, with repeating phrases. The film both begins and ends with the same piece of yodeling, for instance. It also contains a strong sense of place-Alexandre Desplat's score is predominantly Slavic, with lute and balalaika, which fits its setting of a fictitious European country. While beautiful, it is not melancholy, even in the darker moments of the film, which keeps the overall tone comedic even through the murders that occur.

4. the purpose of the film is to help the audience reflect about the spiritual heritage and the political force of those long-vanished stylesabout the substance of style, not just the style of his Old World characters but also, crucially, Anderson's own.

5.The Grand Budapest Hotel reminds me of last year's The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, for how it features a tragic, romantic figure, who stands for the passing of a cultivated and enriching older world for the sake of a darker, ruthless one. At the end of the film, we find ourselves back in 1968, as the older version of Zero finishes his story; from there, we cut back to Tom Wilkinson's aged Author, as he pens the final words of his book; and then we are in the courtyard again, with the girl in white leggings, as she closes the book she has just finished reading so far away from this world she has just experienced, even though, for the last ninety minutes, it has felt so close.

One feels the distance of time at the close of this movie, and I think it is safe to say that many of us may share Mr. Anderson's sentiment in wishing that this beautiful world when the Grand Budapest Hotel was in its prime were a little more within our reach.