Real places from your favourite books/movies/etc!
Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:24 pm
Random fun! Time to list real places mentioned or that serve as the setting in your favourite books, movies, TV shows, comic books, or whatever! Harry Potter ones are fun to list, there's so many.
Phantom of the Opera:
Paris Operahouse (DUH. also known as the Palais Garnier.)
National Academy of Music (It's... a book thing.)
The graveyard in Perros-Guirec (Here's hoping there's only one if I ever go hunting for it >.>)
Mazenderan. (Who knows where within?)
Some Palace In Turkey (Reeeeal specific.)
Well, there weren't as many as I thought, but then, most of the places I thought of were inside the first one. Like the horseshoe by the box-office, and the column next to the entrance to Box Five, and Box Five itself, and... um, just about all the walls... XD
Phantom of the Opera:
Paris Operahouse (DUH. also known as the Palais Garnier.)
National Academy of Music (It's... a book thing.)
The graveyard in Perros-Guirec (Here's hoping there's only one if I ever go hunting for it >.>)
Mazenderan. (Who knows where within?)
Some Palace In Turkey (Reeeeal specific.)
Well, there weren't as many as I thought, but then, most of the places I thought of were inside the first one. Like the horseshoe by the box-office, and the column next to the entrance to Box Five, and Box Five itself, and... um, just about all the walls... XD
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:39 pm
Several years ago I discovered a website created by a Watership Down fan.
The man trekked through southern England taking photos of all of the places in the book. Considering the main characters are rabbits, the places are rather ordinary. Fields, rivers, a farm, etc.
http://www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk/w ... /index.htm
The man trekked through southern England taking photos of all of the places in the book. Considering the main characters are rabbits, the places are rather ordinary. Fields, rivers, a farm, etc.
http://www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk/w ... /index.htm
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:42 pm
There's way too many to list but here's some of my favorite:
The Moulin Rouge in Paris
The Balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina from Evita
Freddy's house in Nightmare On Elm Street is a real house in California... but they used a similar looking house in Canada for Freddy Vs. Jason.
The Moulin Rouge in Paris
The Balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina from Evita
Freddy's house in Nightmare On Elm Street is a real house in California... but they used a similar looking house in Canada for Freddy Vs. Jason.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:44 pm
Minas tirith.
yes, not a real place ofcourse, but the location is apparently based upon mant-blanc in france (i shouldna thought thats the right spelling, but meh)
always had a thing for those mountains, never been there, but my dad describes them well.
yes, not a real place ofcourse, but the location is apparently based upon mant-blanc in france (i shouldna thought thats the right spelling, but meh)
always had a thing for those mountains, never been there, but my dad describes them well.
Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:25 pm
I was sick outside the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:17 pm
my dad drove down the side of the mountain in a lorry.
while asleep.
yay for ghosts of dead grandparents is all i can say.
while asleep.
yay for ghosts of dead grandparents is all i can say.
Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:11 pm
Setekh wrote:Minas tirith.
yes, not a real place ofcourse, but the location is apparently based upon mant-blanc in france (i shouldna thought thats the right spelling, but meh)
always had a thing for those mountains, never been there, but my dad describes them well.
If my french is correct that means White Mountian?
Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:52 pm
err...
now that you mention it, i think it does
now that you mention it, i think it does
Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:00 am
Well, it may or may not be. Tolkien directly denied that he uses metaphors for real life or real locations almost at all - a few exceptions he mentioned are the Shire being the English countryside and that the Dead Marshes are probably derived (SP?) from the trenches in WWI. Also, his wife directly inspired Luthien (Tinuviel also). Other than that, Tolkien discouraged the idea that he directly took places, events and/or people from real life.
Where did you read that Minas Tirith is supposed to be Mont Blanc? It may be one of those things I just never found.
It's a pity that just about none of the places in Beowulf are very mappable (or, for the most part, existant) because Rohan is obviously very Beowulfian. In fact, I think I read somewhere that the Meduseld was originally called Heorot. Or maybe they mean the same thing. I dunno.
Where did you read that Minas Tirith is supposed to be Mont Blanc? It may be one of those things I just never found.
It's a pity that just about none of the places in Beowulf are very mappable (or, for the most part, existant) because Rohan is obviously very Beowulfian. In fact, I think I read somewhere that the Meduseld was originally called Heorot. Or maybe they mean the same thing. I dunno.
Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:10 am
I'd definitely go with the Moulin Rouge! That was such an awesome movie! 
Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:18 pm
cant for the life of me remember, may have been the guide to Tolkien though?
but it does make sense to me, the only Tolkien thing i couldnt place was Mordor, strikes me as South Africa, but it doesnt all add up totally
and Numenor is so Atlantis.
but it does make sense to me, the only Tolkien thing i couldnt place was Mordor, strikes me as South Africa, but it doesnt all add up totally
and Numenor is so Atlantis.
Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:47 pm
There's that forest in Van Helsing, and the forest in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I like forests. 
Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:27 pm
Moulin Rouge isn't that great. o.o
I enjoyed seeing the places in the books the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.
I enjoyed seeing the places in the books the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.
Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:06 pm
lionheartwitty wrote:There's that forest in Van Helsing, and the forest in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I like forests.
Eeee! Someone else has seen Robin Hood: Prince of Theives!?! Wooo!
And that's... Sherwood Forest, yep.
Um, okay, um... I'm going to insist that, while Mordor probably isn't South Africa, Tolkien was bitten by a very venomous spider there when he was four, and a servant sucked out the venom before it could kill the small boy, so there's a bit of basis for the events in Cirith-Ungol. ^-^ A
nd South Africa can be quite cold too, there's penguins... I don't think it's really Mordor material, it's far too... alive.
(Wyoming, on the other hand... no, just kidding.)