The movie that defined an entire decade of financial power in the money capital of the world: “WALL STREET”
The movie is remembered by Michael’s Douglas character Gekko’s speech on in front of shareholders at the Roosevelt hotel in Manhattan (as seen in the pic)
With more and more movies being filmed in several Pittsburgh studios in Pennsylvania, the formerly industrial city is beginning to compete with Hollywood.
COME SEE THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY INTO THE MOVIE MECCA OF THE EAST
The movie “The Sheik” filmed in 1921 made the male sex-symbol of the silent movies period, Rodolfo Valentino, famous. The movie was based on the popular novel at the time by writer Edith Maude Hull.
THE STORY STARTS IN THE ALGERIAN CITY OF BISKRA AND CONTINUES IN THE SAHARAN DESERT IN ALGERIA.
Filmmaker Peter Weir in a critically acclaimed 1998 movie “The Truman Show” was ahead of time in what today became a normal standard for reality show TV productions. Jim Carrey performed one of its best performances on a movie that took from him much more than his usual clown/comedian master skills.
THE SETTING OF THE FILM IN REAL TOWN OF SEASIDE IN FLORIDA IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO VISIT TO SEE THE PRE-HISTORY OF REALITY TV
The 2002 Christopher Nolan film “Insomnia” was recreated in the Alaska town of Nightmute, where long days made Al Pacino’s character of a detective investigating a murder suffer from insomnia during his search after Robin Williams’ villain role.
The Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England was the location where the 2010 film Gulliver’s Travels was filmed to recreate the Lilliput Palace where the modern version of Gulliver played by Jack Black was taken before becoming the Lilliputians’ savior.
The Devil’s Tower location in Wyoming was the perfect location for Steven Spielberg’s famous science fiction early movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” landing of the alien’s mother spaceship.
The Mountain Lake Hotel in Virginia was the main location for the filming of the movie Dirty Dancing, a movie that set the tone for years of people dancing to its music and group choreography.
TRAVEL THERE TO STILL FEEL AND SENSE THE MUSIC AND LOVE
Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece “THE TERMINAL” starred Tom Hanks playing Victor Navorski, a citizen of imaginary Krakozhia, who gets trapped inside the terminal and leaves there for a long time. In the picture below, we see Tom Hanks playing Viktor, the JFK terminal and the imaginary flag of Krakozhia.
One of the main locations of the plot in the Scorsese’s movie “Good Fellas” is at the Copacabana Club in Manhattan, the music and dancing traditional heart of the Big Apple
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