2. It's easy to dismiss Freemasonry as a quaint Old Boy's club, but it's also had a genuine impact on imagination of may artists.
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3. You can see Masonic ripples in creators as diverse as Mozart, Tolstoy, and Kipling.
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4. Is Wes Anderson a Mason? Probably not but he's inherited a set of interrelated thematic interests than can properly be labelled Masonic
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5. Mason themes: initiating of youth into knowledge by older man, love of uniforms, secret society transcending normal race/class boundaries
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6. Also Masonic: the importance of architecture, and secret meaning embedded in buildings (i.e. Grand Budapest Hotel).
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7. Consider "The Society of the Crossed Keys" in Grand Budapest Hotel: a secret order, transnational, multi-racial, helps each other out.
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8. Contra what I wrote earlier:
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9. As against
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10. The secret alternative history of the Ruritanian backdrop of Grand Budapest Hotel also feels Masonic to me.
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11. The masculine focus of the films, and primacy given to male homosocial relationships.
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12. As a sidenote, I loved "Grand Budapest Hotel" -- thought it was Anderson's best movie to date.
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13. Interwar Mitteleuropa background (with echoes of atrocities) gives Grand Budapest a gravitas Anderson's other movies lacked.
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