Both the movie and the book had call to nostalgia. In the beginning of the book the Stefan talks about Austria in a very glorified way that paints a perfect picture that was full of nostalgia and wanting for a simpler time. Wes Anderson’s movies does the same, he creates this perfect scene that look like still shots. Because everything is controlled and beautifully balanced, Wes also paints aggrandised vision of the past making the viewer long for it. I think Wes borrowed the idea very authentic nostalgia that transports the viewer. But both Stefan and Wes create a different world where they’re strange character can live and not be compared or run into the world we live in. The characters deal with real issues but they do in a straight way without showing a lot of emotion.
The overall mood of Wes movies are melancholy a specially in The Grand Budapest Hotel there is a lot of death but also a lot of funny moments which evens out the mood to melancholy and not sad. I think Wes pulls that melancholy tone from Stefan's books, like in The Journey to the Past. There is an overall sadness and dislike for from the author's life and a yearning for the past. I think because someone is telling the story of the past and looking back in the beginning of The Grand Budapest Hotel the same yearning is happening.
I think what sets Stefan and Wes apart is the way they capture a setting. The set design for Wes Anderson films are something of great beauty, everything places carefully and nothing is left in chance. The unique monochromatic color scheme of pastel color and the use of symmetry and asymmetry throughout the film makes his films feel very two dimensional. When reading Stefan books that same carefully contested set design of Wes Anderson does not transfer over.
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