Postmodernism within The Grand Budapest Hotel

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy film directed by Wes Anderson. This poster can be seen as postmodern as it is heavily influenced by the 1930's, especially through the way all of the characters look. Each of the characters are on a key label to signify the hotel, the characters are also being represented as 'objects' that make up the hotel as this is playing on the postmodern technique of irony. The reason this is irony as all characters are being shown as equal on the poster, despite them being of different levels of hierarchy in the film itself, this is very typical of directors who play on postmodernism, especially when a serious topic of war time is involved.

Pastiche is also used within this poster as it slightly resembles a Guess Who board by how the characters look with 'mug shot' looking pictures with their names below. This is because the majority of the story is about a character trying to prove his innocence and proving who the culprit is, so again this plays on the pastiche of 'Guess Who'.

The poster also includes historiographic meta-fiction as the hotel is probably based on a real hotel that was thriving back in the 1930's and also looks like a dolls house. This also incorporates hyper-reality because the hotel looks like a real hotel, despite it being completely fictional. All of these characters are strong stereotypes of the 1930's so this humour is showing you that the poster is purposefully not serious which is typical of post modern texts.