Packet 11: Tossup 7

For many scenes set in this structure, VFX had to alter the look of nearly 3,000 paper boxes because the film’s graphic designer, Annie Atkins, misspelled a French word on them with two T’s. David Bordwell’s essay examining a director’s use of “planimetric” staging for scenes set in this structure is excerpted at the end of a Matt Zoller Seitz book titled for this structure. (15[1])Adam Stockhausen won an Oscar for (-5[1])production (15[1])designing a film in which a (15[1])shot set in this structure depicts a man running towards the frame’s vanishing (*) point after saying “she’s been murdered, and you think I did it.” (10[1])The set (-5[1])for (10[1])this structure’s interior (10[1])was built in the lobby of a (10[1])mall in Görlitz, Saxony and was inspired by buildings in Karlovy Vary, Czechia. An aerial shot depicts a woman with a Mexico-shaped birthmark hanging off a ledge on this structure by clutching the frame of a painting titled (10[1])Boy (10[1])with Apple. For 10 points, (10[2])what pink-colored structure in Zubrowka titles a 2014 (10[1])film by Wes Anderson? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Grand Budapest Hotel [accept Mendl’s Patisserie; prompt on hotel] (Atkins misspelled “patisserie” on the Mendl’s boxes as “pattisserie.”)
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