Touristy Film Locales.
Discussion
generationx said:
I should think "The Skywalker Ranch" in Tunisia is a good example.
You mean Owen Lars’ Moisture Farm?Skywalker Ranch is George Lucas’ residence in California.
Piz Gloria in Switzerland was completed with funding assistance from EON to allow completion of filming of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
They’ve been diving out, or rather having people dine in, on it ever since.
Even the name was lifted from the 007 script.
Radec said:
Mikey's house in Goonies
Was due to see that on July 3rd, along with location of the restaurant, beach of the final scene, beach of the 4x4 rally at the start, Jail, Bowling Alley and Museum where his dad worked.Data’s house is next to Mikey’s too.
Wanted to see it all since I was a kid - gutted!!
shih tzu faced said:
Lombard Street in San Francisco (the steep twisting, snaking one with loads of hairpin bends) has been used in many films including Bullitt; must be one of the most recognisable film locations.
Was due to drive down that too!Monument Valley is an obvious one for the Westerns.
CAPP0 said:
Yunkai from Game of Thrones, known locally as Ait-Ben-Haddou. That was my bike, and I rode it there:
Managed to get that shot with nobody else in it, but there were groups of tourists around.
The Alcazar of Seville, Spain - the Palace was the scene of the water gardens of Dorne. Well worth a visit. Managed to get that shot with nobody else in it, but there were groups of tourists around.
king helping!
miniman said:
vladcjelli said:
Please, please, please...
https://youtu.be/74BA7CUrGYw
I usually research new places by watching films set there, and then finding the places.
When my wife and I were in NY we happened upon the Ghostbusters fire station quite by accident, because I wanted to get off the rather polluted main street and took a side road. In the same city we took a wrong turning and serendipitously discovered the Serendipity 3 restaurant from Serendipity.
In Berlin research was Run Lola Run, Funeral in Berlin, and Octopussy, and the TV series Berlin Station and Deutschland '83. So many cool spy places to visit, so we have a lot of photos from all the places in which we are wearing overcoats, hats, sunglasses and false moustaches!
We went to the Cafe de Deux Moulins in Paris (from Amelie)
I've visited a load of other James Bond locations, and driven the Goldfinger passes in Switzerland in my Aston Martin.
In Como we went to the Casino Royale locations. In Bregenz we went to the opera house on the lake from Quantum of Solace. We also went to the Bond locations from the same film in Siena. In Locarno we went to the Verzasca Dam from Goldeneye. In Hong Kong we drank cocktails in the Peninsula and spent hours in the rain trying to find the Yacht Club from Die Another Day only to find they made the bloody place up and shot it in Pinewood. In San Franciso I went to Fisherman's Wharf and City Hall from A View To A Kill. (I also went up the Eiffel Tower when in Paris, and played the Duran Duran video when I got to the top) and in Shanghai I went along those neon-lit urban motorways.
London has lots of Bond and other film locations too, obviously. People are always going to the 'Platform 9 3/4' at Kings Cross despite it being nowhere near the actual filming location which was actually platform 4 & 5 apparently. I think Primrose Hill has gained more tourists thanks to the Paddington films.
Non-obvious Bond locations in London are the Banks's lion on the south side of Westminster Bridge which pretended to be the entrance to the abandoned 'Vauxhall Cross' tube station from Die Another Day and the spiral underground car park in Smithfield from Skyfall.
I took a geeky pleasure in finding the T108 bench in Hyde Park from the Ipcress file too, because I am very sad.
When my wife and I were in NY we happened upon the Ghostbusters fire station quite by accident, because I wanted to get off the rather polluted main street and took a side road. In the same city we took a wrong turning and serendipitously discovered the Serendipity 3 restaurant from Serendipity.
In Berlin research was Run Lola Run, Funeral in Berlin, and Octopussy, and the TV series Berlin Station and Deutschland '83. So many cool spy places to visit, so we have a lot of photos from all the places in which we are wearing overcoats, hats, sunglasses and false moustaches!
We went to the Cafe de Deux Moulins in Paris (from Amelie)
I've visited a load of other James Bond locations, and driven the Goldfinger passes in Switzerland in my Aston Martin.
In Como we went to the Casino Royale locations. In Bregenz we went to the opera house on the lake from Quantum of Solace. We also went to the Bond locations from the same film in Siena. In Locarno we went to the Verzasca Dam from Goldeneye. In Hong Kong we drank cocktails in the Peninsula and spent hours in the rain trying to find the Yacht Club from Die Another Day only to find they made the bloody place up and shot it in Pinewood. In San Franciso I went to Fisherman's Wharf and City Hall from A View To A Kill. (I also went up the Eiffel Tower when in Paris, and played the Duran Duran video when I got to the top) and in Shanghai I went along those neon-lit urban motorways.
London has lots of Bond and other film locations too, obviously. People are always going to the 'Platform 9 3/4' at Kings Cross despite it being nowhere near the actual filming location which was actually platform 4 & 5 apparently. I think Primrose Hill has gained more tourists thanks to the Paddington films.
Non-obvious Bond locations in London are the Banks's lion on the south side of Westminster Bridge which pretended to be the entrance to the abandoned 'Vauxhall Cross' tube station from Die Another Day and the spiral underground car park in Smithfield from Skyfall.
I took a geeky pleasure in finding the T108 bench in Hyde Park from the Ipcress file too, because I am very sad.
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