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HBO's movie Fatherland (1994) was filmed in post-communist Prague. They used both matte paintings and real locations (of Prague) to depicts never-built nazi cit
by severak_cz 6y ago
HBO's movie Fatherland (1994) was filmed in post-communist Prague. They used both matte paintings and real locations (of Prague) to depicts never-built nazi city of Germania.
This use of real-life locations leads to some (for locals) hilarious moments like scene where gestapo tries to catch some man who is running away from them by train. The chase goes from station A to B where the man is killed. But funny thing is that they used just one real station to shoot both locations of A and B and they are actually just some 100m away.
See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/
- tomcam 6y agoYou’ve just described virtually all mainstream moviemaking, at least in the US. Even on location shoots there is almost never a case, for example, where an establishing shot of the exterior of a house or other building takes place within 100m or even 100 miles of where the interior set is.
- carabiner 6y agoBehold the California filmmaking map. The whole world, in one state. https://mk0brilliantmaptxoqs.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Cali-film-locations.jpg https://mk0brilliantmaptxoqs.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...
- zxcvbn4038 6y ago- In Stargate SG-1 pretty much every planet in the universe looks like either a Canadian forest or a closeup of a sand dune. - If you watch classic Dr Who episodes the entire universe is either a rock query or a plywood hallway that nobody dare lean against.
- contingencies 6y agoI get the sense that Kafka would have been proud of Dr. Who. More so, discussing it on the internet decades later in the context of fallen grand architectures.
- rgblambda 6y agoThe building used for Paddy's Pub in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, is in Los Angeles.
- tomcam 6y ago...and every damn Seattle exterior shot is in Vancouver unless B roll of the Space Needle is needed
- pndy 6y agoIf someone liked MitHC then it's a must-see, and must-read since HBO movie is based on Robert Harris novel from 1992. Of course movie differs from book original just like Dick's novel does from the tv series. I think the production people did a great job for a scale of tv movie of portraying 60s Nazi-owned Germany seen shortly on the screen - in both real locations and models.
- pezezin 6y agoI have seen that first hand. Some scenes of season 7 of Game of Thrones were recorded in my city. I can clearly remember the scene after Euron captures Ellaria and Tyene and takes them to King's Landing, and a couple of episodes later when Samwell leaves the Citadel. In GoT's world both places are supposed to be hundred of km away, in reality they are 200 m away. Also some massive towers in the background that don't exist in real life.
- Veen 6y agoI recently binged Netflix's Last Kingdom. Many of the "Saxon" towns appeared to be the same place shot from a slightly different angle. It turns out that may be the case: much of the series was shot in Hungary at Korda Studios, which has a Medieval Village Set on their backlot, as well as a New York/Brooklyn Set and Renaissance Set.
- starky 6y agoI clicked on the article expecting to make the joke that alt-Berlin looks a lot like Vancouver since they did a lot of the shooting here. I was out at the university when they were filming the first season and they had done the main mall up in Nazi flags, it was really weird. Living in a city where they do a lot of filming is weird from the standpoint of recognizing the backgrounds of areas. One that sticks out in my mind is the ending of Tron:Legacy. They have multiple shots that are supposed to be the characters driving, but consecutive shots are all out of order including switching between driving north and south multiple times.