The movie starts with a panning and tracking shot of the woman hurrying in the cemetery. Shot switches to the man shown on the book and in the statue of a cemetery, dialoging a story in a news way.
Mise-en-scene of the Grand Budapest, with pink skies, blue mountains, wide forest, grand rooms, with luxury colors; classy brown, marble yellows and warm reds, accompanied by a waiter in a purple suit.
Zero Mustafa, an owner of many massive hotels, appears to be a lonely genius to us shown in a shot of him looking frail and small in a fancy suit. As the main character takes a bath in the shower room, he meets Zero and insists on a dinner to tell his journey.
The man seemed dominant as he orders the other waiters, charismatic enough to charm a woman of wealth and power. They met the owner of the Grand Budapest is introduced in a high-angle shot, showing the difference in power from the two.
As Zero continues to tell his story, it focuses on the charismatic man being a figure seducing around women and how he and Zero got close over time. They went in a train but are stopped from a bunch of soldiers in the distance, we are firstly given clues that a war is starting from an emphasized shot of the newspaper. This is shown his worried expression in seeing Zero being targeted by the soldiers in the train.
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