Zero was killed
Death squad killed Zero and the jewish girl.
Gustave was a selfish and a coward and he lost everything because of that.
He tells a fictional and colorful story about himself.
Hmmm, no. There's nothing to indicate that.
Let's be bad guys.
I was wondering the same thing it's in a thread further back... apparently because they hired a Syrian who was raised in Texas to play a character who's younger version was played by a Guatemalan born in California and is portraying a unknown ethnicity in a fictional nation in a movie with a large multinational cast who except for one all use their own accents as an affectation of the movie this means that old Zero was actually Gustave, being an unreliable narrator, and the Irish girl playing the girl with the map of Mexico birthmark named Agatha was Jewish for some reason.
shareI'm not sure, but you get kudos for that explanation.
shareBlack and white scenes. The colorful story was told by Custave himself.
shareBlack and white scenes. The colorful story was told by Gustave himself.
shareBlack & white scene. You mean the one of the black day his friend, mentor, and benefactor died on his behalf; That marked the beginning of the sorrows of his life, and the ending of a more colorful bygone era? Yeah don't know why that would be shot in B&W.
Because if the director himself told me that was supposed to indicate that Gustave had assumed his friend's identity for decades (he's either known to the author, concierge, and newspapers; or the author made him up, making the reason for a hint even more bizarre), and the complete lack of contrast with the earlier train scene, not to mention the entire rest of the movie, was a deliberate choice I would not only flatly say that isn't what ended up on screen, but that he was lying.