1. GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
NARRATIVE FRAMING

2. What is a FRAME NARRATIVE?
In a nutshell, a frame narrative is a “story within a story”

3. Examples of FRAME NARRATIVES...
Titanic – (the movie) the story of “Old Rose” revisiting the site of the Titanic “bookends” the love story of Jack and “Young Rose” onboard the ship in 1912
Forrest Gump – Forrest (in the present) is telling his life story (of Forrest in the past) to various citizens on the park bench
Can you think of any others?

4. Another way to view FRAME NARRATIVES...
We can look at frame narratives as a diagram
For example, with Titanic:
“Old Rose”
Love story of “Young Rose” and Jack

5. Frame narrative in Grand Budapest Hotel
PRESENT DAY : GIRL READING IN FRONT OF STAUE OF AUTHOR
AUTHOR RELATES STORY AT HIS DESK IN 1985 OF VISIT TO GBH
ZERO MUSTAFA RELATES THE STORY OF M. GUSTAV ?

6. THEMES IN THE NARRATIVE
FRAME NARRATIVES
LOYALTY
ART AND CULTURE
NOSTALGIA
STEREOTYPES