Character Analysis
More like Dmeantri.
This guy doesn't rank very high on our Friendliness O'Meter—on a scale of one to ten he's more zero than Zero.
Let's run through a quick checklist of Dmitri's actions. He kills his mother, forces Serge to falsely accuse Gustave of the murder, orders Jopling to kill Deputy Kovacs, Serge, and even Serge's poor sister, smashes a beautiful Egon Schiele painting… the list goes on.
We don't have to even witness all these things to know Dmitri is a bad dude. As he stalks Agatha (we use the word "stalks" to describe his gait—he's none too stealthy) down the halls of the Grand Budapest's sixth floor, we hear that scary organ music begin to play and get a close up of him from in front as he slowly walks toward the camera.
Dmitri basically looks like a vampire who's traded his fangs for a mustache. His always-black garb fits in perfectly with the eerie antiquity of his mother's estate… and the darkness of his twisted soul.
Although Dmitri is a criminal, he's not exactly a criminal mastermind… because he doesn't so much have a masterful mind. When he first gets sight of Gustave at the reading of the will, he describes him as "a ruthless adventurer and a con-artist who preys on mentally feeble, sick old ladies," and then adds, in an attempt at a 1930s version of a sick burn "and he probably f***s them, too."
Um. Yes. That's actually exactly what Gustave does—the sex part, not the con-artist part.
To make matters even more hilarious Gustave retorts: "I thought I was supposed to be a f***ing f*****?" Poor Dmitri. He's too dim to remember what offensive insults he's been lobbing in Gustave's direction.