The construction of dialogues in Wes Anderson
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https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v12n2.953Keywords:
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Dialogue, ActingAbstract
This article aims to understand the construction of dialogues in the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), by director Wes Anderson. We analyze the rhythm of the characters’ dialogues, particularly the interaction between M. Gustave H. and Zero. Our intention with this article is the stylistic analysis of sound as a rhythm control tool through dialogue. The film analysis method focused on the characters’ dialogues can help providing acting analysis tools. For the analysis of the dialogues, we use two approaches: one proposed by Lea Jacobs (1998), of counting words per second, and another proposed by Débora Regina Opolski (2018), of the style of the spoken voice in fiction cinema. As a result, the article points out that Anderson works the dialogues of his films in an artificial and implausible way.
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