The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and
directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble
cast as Monsieur Gustave H., renowned concierge of a fictional European
mountainside resort. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy
dowager (Tilda Swinton), he embarks on a quest for fortune and a
priceless Renaissance painting with his recently befriended lobby boy
(Tony Revolori). Thematic analysis focuses on the function of color as a
storytelling device and the film's exploration of fascism, nostalgia,
friendship, and loyalty. The Grand Budapest Hotel was based on Anderson
and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness's vision of a fragmented tale of
a character inspired by a mutual friend. Filming took place in Germany
over ten weeks, in the regions around Berlin and Saxony. After
premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014,
the film grossed more than $172 million at the global box office. The
Grand Budapest Hotel was released to highly positive reviews, and won
four Academy Awards for music and technical achievement.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850:
United States senator Daniel Webster delivered a speech
advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with
abolitionists in his home state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
1871:
José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year
premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in
the state's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Paranhos,_Viscount_of_Rio_Branco>
1941:
The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats
of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_%281938%29>
2009:
Dissident Irish republican campaign: Two off-duty British Army
soldiers were shot dead by Real IRA paramilitaries outside Massereene
Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massereene_Barracks_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nervous:
1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
4. (archaic) Having nerves; nervose.
5. (obsolete) Showing nervous strength; sinewy, vigorous.
6. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nervous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In whatever state of knowledge we may conceive man to be placed,
his progress towards a yet higher state need never fear a check, but
must continue till the last existence of society.
--John Herschel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel>
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