Decors and colors in Wes Anderson’s movies
With his last movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson
not only confirms that he’s a brilliant director but also reveals that he could
have been a great interior designer! Colors, furniture, lights, disposition,
all reveals that décor is important for esthetic reasons but also has a meaning
of its own.
Explosive colors
Red and Purple
Mixing bright red and
purple is a bold choice, yet it is the main color theme of the Grand Budapest
hotel. From the elevator walls to the lobby rugs through staff uniforms, red
and purple are the sign that you belong to this special hotel. The two main
characters are indeed proudly wearing these colors, even outside of the hotel.
Not really well-known
for being the best match, these two colors have first been associated by Yves
Saint-Laurent, inspired by the mix and match of colors in Morocco. Maybe India
(let’s remember Darjeeling Limited)
was Wes Anderson’s inspiration for this masterful association of colors.
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| (with a touch of orange, like Yves Saint-Laurent in his time) |
Orange and Green
Orange and green are
two colors which echo themselves quite brutally as well. He uses these two
colors, which were very fashionable during the Sixties, to show that time has
changed. But the dull tones used (also in contrast with the bright red and
purple of the 30’s) let show that the hotel is not what it used to be anymore.
Light pink, blue and green
These colors are often
associated with a female world; linked to the young baker in the Grand Budapest Hotel, similar colors are
present in the bathroom of Tenenbaums’ daughter in the Royal Tenenbaums.
Complementary colors
Wes Anderson uses a
lot of other bright colors, and plays with strong and explosive combinations. He
often associates so-called ‘complementary colors’, well-known among artists and
physicists for their capacity to enhance one another.
Yellow and Blue
Yellow and Purple
Pink and Green
The way Wes Anderson uses
colors is not only visually strong but it also gives a fresh look to interiors
that are either too classical or a bit old-fashioned.
Lights
Like all good interior
designer, Wes Anderson knows how to use light and lights to create a specific
atmosphere.
A perfect symetry
Wes Anderson’s shots
are often perfectly symmetrical, as this video demonstrates.
Symmetry reinforce the
beauty of a scene while giving an impression of order and completeness.
Characters and Decors
Last but not least, if
colors and decors are that thoroughly chosen by the director, it’s because they
do not only serve an esthetic goal, they also reflect the characters who live
in them and thus serve to introduce these characters and to understand them
better. In the Royal Tenenbaums,
characters are introduced through their bedrooms. In the Grand Budapest Hotel, the main character keeps wearing the old
colors of the hotel even though the décor has changed, to signify that he, hasn’t
changed.
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Lessons to be learned? Don’t
be afraid to DARE vivid colors and to furnish your home as YOU wish, remember,
your home reveals a bit of who you are! J
link to the video of the making-of
of the Hotel Décor.
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