Wes Anderson’s whimsical caper ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ has critics claiming it to be his most exquisite film yet. During an interview with journalist Marlow Stern, Anderson revealed some of his creative processes in making the witty film.

When asked about the film’s inspiration Anderson mentioned the film’s making began seven years ago. He wrote the script for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ with his friend Hugo Guinness. Anderson’s inspiration for the film came while he was reading ‘Beware of Pity’ by Austrian author Stefan Zweig on a trip to Paris. Anderson admitted the opening scene of the film pays tribute to the author’s use of storytellers in his novels.

Hugo and I had made a version of a section of it—about 12 minutes of it—around seven years ago, which included a hunk of dialogue and a sense of the character, and when I found out how to combine it with Zweig, make it a concierge, and other details, we wrote it in six weeks, and immediately after that, we started researching.

Since making the animated film ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ Anderson said he started making use of animated storyboards. He noted Willem Dafoe particularly enjoys these animations, that consist of Anderson doing most of the voices.

To read the rest of Anderson’s interview, click here.

[ Source : TheDailyBeast ]