Travel Photo PIP: Movie & TV Locations

[GilliC]

This bi-weekly Travel Photo PIP might be a bit more challenging:

Filming Locations

Films and television often showcase some of the world's most spectacular scenery, creating new worlds right within our own. Where have you traveled that has been featured on film? Did it influence your decision to visit? Share your favorite scenes with us! (Bonus for adding a PIP of the location from the film/show!)

Roll cameras!

ETA - If you don't already know of some, check out your favorite destinations:
www.movie-locations.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_by_country_of_shooting_location

[mpc]

The first thing that came to mind were a few places we've been where they've bragged about the movies filmed there.

In Morocco, the Draa Valley specifically, our driver/tour guide told us they film a lot of movies there. He talked a lot about 'Babel' and said he got to drive Brad Pitt around at one point.





'Babel':


Coober Pedy in Australia was filmed as Mars for "Red Planet' (I never actually saw this movie). The filmmakers left behind a lot of the props they built, but I somehow didn't get a picture of those.



'Red Planet'



As for the original question of a movie influencing a decision to visit somewhere, I wouldn't say this one inspired us to go to Greece, but the whole time we were planning our time in Santorini, I kept thinking of those scenes in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I really wanted to have a donkey carry me and my bags to our hotel, but alas, it wasn't meant to be lol.

[christy082]

We visited the Napali Coast in Kauai, where one of the opening scenes of Jurassic Park was filmed. A lot of the movie was filmed in Kauai, but we didn't visit those specific parts of the island.


Jurassic Park location: approaching the coast of ‘Isla Nublar’: Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii LINK


And now I'm pissed b/c I can't find our honeymoon pics on this computer. Harumph. 

[PinkSquirrel]

I just got home Saturday and have a whopping 8 pictures online from my trip to Rwanda and Tanzania, but this adorable Gorilla is from Volcano National park in Rwanda where Gorillas in the Mist was filmed.

[alleinesein]

Worli Sea Link Bridge. Bandra West/Worli, Mumbai
This is a movie oops for Million Dollar Arm- the movie has them driving over the bridge but the movie takes place in 2007 and the bridge didnt open to traffic until 2009!




London- Bridget Jones's Diary. I found Bridget's flat!

[MauMau]

James Bond Goldfinger shot at the Furka Pass in Switzerland. I probably have a few other ones but this is the most obvious one I can think of.

[MauMau]

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jette at the Art Institute of Chicago. Seen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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MauMau, that's my favorite painting

But I didn't know it was in a movie because I've never seen that movie!

[alleinesein]

Jul 14, 2014 18:03:07 GMT -5 v said:

MauMau, that's my favorite painting

But I didn't know it was in a movie because I've never seen that movie!

WHAT???  Never seen it?  Get thee to Netflix now!

[Susie]

Cong, County Mayo, Ireland was the setting for The Quiet Man (1952), which I would not have known except that every store in town had Quiet Man merch when we visited.





ETA:  The Italian Job (2003) had a chase scene shot in the canals in Venice

[MauMau]

Jul 14, 2014 18:06:59 GMT -5 alleinesein said:

Jul 14, 2014 18:03:07 GMT -5 v said:

MauMau, that's my favorite painting

But I didn't know it was in a movie because I've never seen that movie!

WHAT???  Never seen it?  Get thee to Netflix now!

Yes, you need to watch it! Love it!

[Alyssa]

Ta Prahm Temple, Angkor Wat, Cambodia



Tomb Raider








Pleasure Point, Ca.....My picture.  I lived three blocks up from The Point where they filmed the movie Chasing Mavericks.


They kept all the extras in the park which shared the fence with my home.  Look at all the port-o-potties!







Making of 'Chasing Mavericks' with Jay Butler

[PinkSquirrel]

Jul 14, 2014 17:05:19 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

Jul 14, 2014 15:04:04 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

I just got home Saturday and have a whopping 8 pictures online from my trip to Rwanda and Tanzania, but this adorable Gorilla is from Volcano National park in Rwanda where Gorillas in the Mist was filmed.

How was Rwanda?  We did Tanzania last year and loved it and we are headed back to Rwanda to do the gorilla treks next month.  I am sooo excited.  

I am head over heels in love with Rwanda.  There are a lot of cool things the country is doing as a whole as part of rebounding from the genocide in 94 that are admirable and the gorillas are just amazing.  They were easily my favorite part of the whole trip.

The treks are a workout. We had the Ntambara group, which was a shorter medium hike. It seems they were formerly just a research group hiked to on occasion, so there's not as much info on them online. The hike itself wasn't that long, but it was straight up the mountain. They stop often, but it was steep.  The treks can also get long.  We also did the golden monkeys and one of the women had been in a medium gorilla group the day before that had turned into an 8+ hour hike.  Get a porter, they are worth their weight in gold and will hold your hand to help you balance. Also, bring extra food/snacks/water to share with your porter. No one mentioned it to us before hand, but they don't bring anything for themselves because they're carrying you and your bags. We all shared half of the bag our lodge had provided. My brother, who forgot his bag at the lodge, didn't care about not having food for himself, but he felt pretty terrible that he didn't have anything beyond a bottle of water to share.  

Once we were up with the gorillas we were never more than 2-3 meters away despite the listed 7 meter distance (they let you get closer if they're nestled in bushes where they can feel protected).    They walk right past you and so long as they're not touching you (or a baby is coming at you) they tell you to just keep taking pictures.  They will ask you to not take/to delete pictures if you get one of a gorilla touching someone.  They don't want it to become a competition.   

My other random recommendation is if you have a big fancy camera or lens flash it around.  I had a canon 100-400 L  lens and that big white beast stood out even among the other DSLRs and the guides ALWAYS placed me at the front of the group so I could get the best pictures.   

It was so much fun and there is nothing more mind blowing than walking around a corner and seeing a Gorilla in the wild for the first time.  I had the biggest shit eating grin on my face the entire rest of the day. If you have any other questions feel free to PM me.  

[daisypaloma]

Wrigley Field - Chicago for Perfect Strangers' opening credits. Here's pic of Balki in his Cubs shirt.




Parc Guell from Vicky Cristina Barcelona.  I already know I wanted to go to BCN for all things Gaudi.  This movie definitely sealed the deal for me to go.

[wise_rita]

Alyssa took my Cambodia Tomb Raider shot, so here's a random shot from New Zealand. From what I understand Lord of the Rings filmed their trilogy over every square inch of the country.



I have no freaking clue why TinyPic is uploading all my pictures sideways. Annoying!

[GilliC]

I already posted my photo of Dettifoss from Prometheus in the Waterfalls post, which is what inspired this round's theme. We were already planning to visit that area of Iceland, but we definitely made more of an effort to see the waterfall, since it was pretty impressive in the film. And since it had just came out, it was kind of cool (and scary!) to stand in the same spot, right by the edge!

Udaipur, India was used as the setting for the floating palace in James Bond's Octopussy. We didn't really know beforehand, but they mention it all over, and some of the hostels even have weekly screenings of the film.






A lot of the Bond films have great scenery, so not surprisingly there's another on my list.
Jökulsárlón, Iceland was used in the opening scene from A View to a Kill (complete with iceberg-camouflaged submarine), so we decided to rewatch it before our visit just for fun.




We passed the Glenfinnan viaduct on our trip around Scotland. It appears during the flying car sequence at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.




And lastly, this is Finse, Norway. Also known as the ice planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. I'm a huge Star Wars geek, so I definitely knew about this before we passed by on the train. I reeeeeally want to go back in the winter, not because t's a great cross-country skiing destination, but so that I can say I've been to Hoth. (I'm also dying to go to Tunisia to visit the original film sets and namesake for Tatooine.)

[librarygirl]

Chimney Rock State Park in the Asheville, North Carolina area. It was in the film Last of the Mohicans and stood in for upstate New York. It was featured most prominently at the end of the film when the characters of Uncas, Alice, and Magua all die (they all fall off said cliff below, some pushed, some voluntary). It's one of my favorite films in case that isn't evident

I couldn't find any good images from the movie of these scenes, but this link below has clips from the film:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAR3YYWoUYM



Midnight in Paris at the Orangerie Museum





Killiney Hill Park in Ireland, seen in the movie Once

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I don't have my own photos of these, but I walk by them constantly because I live very close to them...

The Friends apartment building:



Carrie Bradshaw's stoop (Sex and the City):



Huxtable house:




I never take pictures of movie locations, but I've been excited to see lots of them!

[spankswife]

I'm sure I have been places that I just cant think of right now, but next week we are going to NC, and going to Lake Lure, where part of Dirty Dancing was filmed. I am ridiculously excited.