Like the inspirations of the Grand Budapest Hotel
We already know what that means: instead of focusing on the emotional performances, the believable plot twists or the power of the soundtrack, we look at the landscapes, cities and locations of each film. What have we learned from the world this year with the eight selected?
BOYHOOD
- That the authentic American life (word without which, it is proven, one cannot speak of Boyhood) takes place in the suburbs.
- That no matter how many moves you make throughout the state of **Texas (from Houston to San Marcos, for example) **, all the houses look alike. Even with its troublesome plumbing.
- That there can be no true story told in Texas without guns and without a ranch appearing. In this, Lost Pins is the one that shines.
- That in Austin the music scene is one of the coolest you can find, with places like the Continental Club or Antone's.
- That in the list of national parks in the United States that we would love to visit one day is that of Pedernales Falls , to bathe among its rocks, if possible, with Ethan Hawke.
- That we wouldn't leave Big Bend Park behind either. Mushrooms are optional.
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BIRDMAN
- that really inside each theater fits a world and a thousand daily dramas and tragedies unfold.
- That to find your way around the backstage of one of those theaters - in this film, the St. James (246 W 44th St) - and by the head of one of those stars - Michael Keaton playing himself - GPS may be required.
- That times square it is still the center of the world and its neons continue to shine brightly at night.
- That despite being in a big city, the theater world moves in very small circles and actors and critics meet in the same bars. In this case, the Rum House of the Hotel Edison.
- That the New York skyline is full of water deposits and maintains a strange harmony despite the unevenness of its structures.
Birdman, the New York of theaters
DECIDING ENIGMA
- That British boarding schools, like in this movie Sherbone School l, they can be aesthetically beautiful and apparently peaceful, but they tend to hide stories that have more to do with Roald Dahl's stories for adults than with the adventures of Harry Potter.
- That in England military intelligence facilities like Bletchley Park they can take the form of charming little Georgian cottages in the middle of the countryside.
The Imitation Game
THE SNIPER
- Than a marina can be a good place to get married.
- That in case of post-traumatic stress, you have to go to a ranch and raise animals.
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WHIPLASH
- That in New York there are such a number of talented artists that you can find them performing in bars.
- That the streets are a bit dirty and are illuminated by the light of the lions , diners and taxis.
- That in New York you can flirt even in theaters.
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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
- That the imaginary of Zentrope it is so strong that we can recognize it even in a non-existent country and even though it is built mainly with models.
- That an old department store, the germans gorlitzer , with its glass vault and art-deco arches, could be the perfect setting for a luxury hotel in the 1930s and also for the decadent era of the same building in the 1960s.
- That if we want to stay in a place with a façade and location similar to that of the fictional Hotel, we have to travel to Karlovy Vary, in the Czech Republic, and reserve a room at the Grandhotel Pupp and the Palace Bristol. In this same city is the statue of the deer that sneaked into the movie poster, the Jelení-skok.
- That to simulate a prison, nothing better than a castle like the Osterstein , which served as a prison in its day for illustrious inmates such as Marx or Rosa Luxemburg.
- Than to find the home of the Duchess of Alba played by Tilda Swinton you have to resort to two historic Saxon constructions such as the hainewalde castle (exteriors, with its sinister staircase) and the Waldenburg (interiors, with its rooms lined with marquetry) .
- That the rococo delicacy of pastry Mendl's It has been virtually unchanged at the Pfunds Molkerei dairy in Dresden.
- That the observatory magically located on a snowy peak really exists under the name of Sphinx Observatory and is in Switzerland.
- That the wedding of The Sniper (in a port) comes to nothing next to the The Grand Budapest Hotel: at the Basteibrucke, one of the most spectacular viewpoints and bridges in all of Europe built in the middle of the mountain range over the Elbe River.
Grand Budapest Hotel
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
- That Cambridge is one of the world's centers of learning and also one of the most classically beautiful with its bridges, canals and stones.
- That in Cambridge, if you don't serve to row in the regattas, They make a hole for you carrying the megaphone.
-That Queen Victoria was a truly enormous monarch capable of holding a skinny physique in her arms.
- That while camping in a place as beautiful as the Swinley Forest , one is encouraged to take the step towards the desired adultery.
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SELMA
- Which are sometimes the most nondescript places, like the bridge Edmund Pettus, they become more dramatic story scenarios.
- That the city council of Montgomery, Alabama State , those of the entire United States in general, are built in the image and likeness of the Capitol in Washington (on a reduced scale, of course).
- That in places like Covington or Marietta time seems to have stopped, and not only in architectural matters.
- That we have seen the White House so many times as a fictional setting that it almost seems unbelievable that it is also a reality.
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