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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul serve up 2014’s Wes Anderson confection The Grand Budapest Hotel! They praise the inventive action scenes, contrast the different eras of Anderson’s career, and make the case for Gustave H. as Anderson’s best character. Plus: why Tony Revolori had to watch his figure! Next week Unspooled takes a detour for Jackass! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0

The year is 2014.

0:02.1

In this podcast episode is sponsored by the only proper pastry shop in Zubrauka,

0:07.9

Mendels bakery. If you want a quarter-zone of chocolate, you've got to come here.

0:12.4

The movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

0:33.9

Hello everyone and welcome to Unsold. I'm Amy Nicholson. And I'm Paul Sheer in this

0:40.7

podcast where you're endeavoring to find the 100 best movies ever made. And when we do,

0:45.0

we're going to blast them into space. Last week we talked about Frozen and we continue our theme

0:51.6

of cold with Wes Anderson's grand Budapest Hotel. But before we get to that, Amy, a lot of

0:58.4

conversation happening over our Frozen episode. There was a really interesting article that came

1:04.4

out last week about Peter Dinklage talking about the remake of Snow White. And really how messed

1:12.0

up it is that Disney was getting out in front of casting a non-white actresses Snow White.

1:18.0

But didn't do anything to address how they were going to deal with a movie called Snow White

1:24.0

and the Seven Dwarfs, which in Peter Dinklage's opinion is incredibly problematic. It's

1:29.3

progressive on one end, but completely clueless on the other. It sounds like Peter Dinklage might

1:35.6

agree with me that sometimes Disney makes big bold statements for their own marketing purposes without

1:41.6

really thinking about it all the way down. I mean, we'll see. We'll see. But I mean, I do feel for

1:46.6

Dinklage. I can't imagine what it's like to be such a talented actor and yet, you know,

1:51.6

having a movie like Snow White can announce. And I'm almost, I would swear like his mentions on

1:55.6

Twitter if he's on Twitter. I'll like, can't wait for you to start this movie. Oh my god.

1:58.9

Blah, blah, blah, fancassing. I mean, like he must feel so frustrated by...

2:03.2

Especially when he's so amazing in this movie that is up for Oscar contention this year.

2:06.9

This serenow. Serenow. Yeah, he's fantastic.

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