You.d think that a horror classic about a man dealing homicidal past life issues with his family and a charming period piece comedy about an assiduous hotel concierge and his lobby boy apprentice would have little to nothing in common. However, this amazing mashup of The Shining and The Grand Budapest Hotel flows so smoothly it makes you want to get out your tinfoil hat and ponder if it was too perfect. A filmmaker named Steve Ramsden pieced together this spectacular cut, The Grand Overlook Hotel, which brilliantly showcases a rather disturbing compatibility between the two seemingly dissimilar dilemmas of the films. characters. While the clip contains footage from Stanley Kubrick.s tension-teeming horror masterpiece, the power of peppy music and editing has somehow absorbed the late helmer.s work into the folksy, charming stylistics of Wes Anderson. In essence, as the clip.s labeling suggests, this has become...
- 6/2/2015
- cinemablend.com
Besides Bates Motel, few cinematic lodgings are as famous as The Overlook Hotel. The place that winds up driving Jack Torrance mad in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," the corridors, kitchen and even bathrooms are all distinct and powerful locations with horrific weight. Until now. Read More: Watch: The First Trailer For Wes Anderson's Quirky Ensemble Comedy 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' Steve Ramsden has taken Kubrick's classic and mashed it up with Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel,"resulting in "The Grand Overlook Hotel." Making Anderson's film decidedly more creepy or Kubrick's movie more quirky, depending on how you look at it, this is a quick one minute zip through a new set of troubles that Ralph Fiennes' unshakeable M. Gustave has to deal with. Check it out below.
- 6/2/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Over the years, filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson have garnered critical and commercial acclaim for their work, with each of them having their distinctive style. However, the similarities between the two mostly end there, with the two having worked in different time periods, dabbling in different genres, and possessing different strengths.
There is another notable similarity between the two as of last year, however; both filmmakers have made movies about hotels. Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining, the adaptation of the Stephen King novel, follows the Overlook Hotel and its caretakers, the Torrance family, during its off-season of winter, when the trio are the only humans in the place. Anderson’s 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, on the other hand, deals with the trials and tribulations of M. Gustave, the concierge at the titular hotel who gets embroiled in issues surrounding a family’s inheritance.
Youtube user Steve Ramsden has...
There is another notable similarity between the two as of last year, however; both filmmakers have made movies about hotels. Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining, the adaptation of the Stephen King novel, follows the Overlook Hotel and its caretakers, the Torrance family, during its off-season of winter, when the trio are the only humans in the place. Anderson’s 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, on the other hand, deals with the trials and tribulations of M. Gustave, the concierge at the titular hotel who gets embroiled in issues surrounding a family’s inheritance.
Youtube user Steve Ramsden has...
- 6/2/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Read More: 10 Highlights From Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and More at the 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Press Conference in BerlinBoth "The Shining" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" involve murder, and apparently, that's not where the similarities end. Noticing the shots are framed in a similar way in each film, Steve Ramsden edited together Anderson and Kubrick's iconic films to create an entertaining and hilarious parody trailer for "Wes Anderson's The Shining." Watch above. Read More: A History of Wes Anderson at the Box Office, From 'Bottle Rocket' to 'Budapest Hotel'...
- 6/1/2015
- by Meredith Mattlin
- Indiewire
Yes, another day and another Internet video involving Stanley Kubrick. Hell, another video playing up, and spoofing, the themes and visuals of Wes Anderson for that matter, but YouTuber Steve Ramsden has done one hell of a job mashing the two together as he's taken Kubrick's The Shining and Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and created The Grand Overlook Hotel and, well, it actually says just as much if not more about Kubrick and Anderson than any one of the video essays created over the years. It speaks largely to the use of camera movement utilized by the two directors, the center framing and the tone of these two films. Both defy genre, one a mind-bending horror that utilizes plenty of dark comedy, the other a dark comedy that utilizes moments of horror, though mostly for comedic effect. Ramsden not only played with the aspect ratio of The Shining, but...
- 6/1/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"This is the kitchen, huh?" Now this is a great mashup video. Editor Steve Ramsden has cut together a quick mashup video called The Grand Overlook Hotel, combining Kubrick's classic horror The Shining with Anderson's Oscar-winning feature The Grand Budapest Hotel for Wes Anderson's The Shining. You're definitely going to want to book a room in here. These two films have such intricate framing symmetry between certain shots, and Ramsden took advantage of this to put together a trailer that feels like they could be combined into one film and actually work. Have a quick stay at The Grand Overlook Hotel below. Enjoy! Thanks to SlashFilm for the tip. Full description from YouTube: "I noticed how Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick frame their shots in a similar way - this was the result: 'The Grand Overlook Hotel'!" The video mashup was edited by Steve Ramsden - you can see more of his work here.
- 5/31/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Movie mash-ups are nothing new, but rarely are they as magnificent as this. Steve Ramsden has put together a mash-up that is rightfully called Wes Anderson’s The Shining, as he noticed the two master directors share quite a lot of similarities in shot composition and colouring, as well as finding some perfect dialogue crossovers, melding the movies together seamlessly.
- 5/31/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
At first, you might think that directors Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick don’t have much in common. Their films couldn’t be on more opposite ends of the spectrum. However, Steve Ramsden used the similarity in the way Anderson and Kubrick frame shots as a reference point to create The Grand Overlook Hotel, a truly incredible mash-up […]
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- 5/30/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
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