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OftenBen  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Discussion Thread

    To the point where I was wondering if I was watching some sort of self-parody of a Wes Anderson movie.

To me that came across as a nice bit of self-awareness on Anderson's part. Kind of a 'Yes I know what my movies look like, so I'm going to hit you over the head with it at the beginning so that we can get past that prejudice and get on with the movie.'





galen  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A bit of lampshade hanging (WARNING: TV TROPES LINK), perhaps?

OftenBen  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mmmmmm, sort of.

It's a bit more subtle than the Order of the Stick pic that Tvtropes used. I don't know, maybe it's a difference of scale than of kind.