00:00While Wes Anderson's film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, isn't a direct adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novel, it is nonetheless
00:09Zweig on film.
00:11Wes Anderson talks about what drew him to Stefan Zweig as the symphonic passions he found in average people.
00:19Zweig really loved his characters to just have these wonderful inner lives, no matter their station in life.
00:25And that's why something like The Grand Budapest Hotel, focusing on bellboys and hotel workers, just pops so well.
00:33Stefan Zweig was also known for his very specific and florid language.
00:38And while that's not all over The Grand Budapest Hotel, you really see it in how Monsieur Gustav talks.
00:44That kind of magic language he uses is pure Zweig.
00:48What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the living shit out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinsky,
00:53who had the gall to question my virility.
00:55Because if there's one thing we've learned from Penny Dreadfuls, it's that when you find yourself in a place like
00:59this, you must never be a candy ass.
01:02You've got to prove yourself from day one. You've got to win their respect.
01:05I think The Grand Budapest Hotel really proves that books on film are everywhere.
01:11Even when it's not a direct adaptation, what director, producer or screenwriter isn't influenced by the books that they were
01:18raised on,
01:19by the books that they're currently reading when they're making a film?
01:22Books are where we always turn to for comfort.
01:25And I think even though some are not direct adaptations like The Grand Budapest Hotel, they are nonetheless books on
01:32film.
01:32Here we go.
