Set-jetting seven decades of iconic film locations

Set-jetting seven decades of iconic film locations

Movies and TV shows have the fantastic capacity to transport us to stunning areas around the globe, and past to cosmic systems far, far away. Be that as it may, while the on-screen dramatization might be dream, huge numbers of those spectacular sets are places you can visit, in actuality. 

In festivity of our new book, A Spotter's Guide to Film and TV Locations, we traverse the world, yet back in time, to investigate this present reality areas that star in a portion of our preferred movies and TV appears from the most recent seven decades 

The impressive 50s 

Hovs Hallar, Skåne, Sweden – The Seventh Seal, 1957 

See this shoreline scene: very lovely, huh? Presumably a few people may even find in it the magnificence of God's creation. Not Ingmar Bergman, however. He sees the ideal spot for a pleasant round of chess with the scornful figure of Death in an existential dramatization about the scan for significance in an atheist universe 

The swinging 60s 

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany – Chitty Bang, 1968 

Ludwig II of Bavaria's romanesque-recovery ridge manor could barely look increasingly like the home of a fantasy princess on the off chance that it was painted pink and had the Disney logo suspended above it. Without a doubt, it was the model for Sleeping Beauty's stronghold in both Disney's 1959 film and his Californian amusement park. 

In any case, film-adoring kids most likely realize it best as the home of Baron Bomburst, leader of Vulgaria. Regardless of whether this was planned as a slight on Ludwig and Walt's preference for manors, motion picture history does not record. 

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The Potter Schoolhouse, Bodega, California, USA – The Birds, 1963 

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, California, USA – Star Trek, 1966-69 

The hallucinogenic 70s 

James Bond Island (Khao Phing Kan), Thailand – The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974 

Khao Phing Kan once in a while passes by its given name, and has been privately known as James Bond Island as far back as Christopher Lee's supervillain Scaramanga concealed his 'solex fomenter' in the limestone karst tower off its shore. Why Scaramanga additionally constructed a funhouse and corridor of mirrors on the island is impossible to say, however it's best not to scrutinize the rationale of the Roger Moore–time Bond films too intently. 

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Doune Castle, Stirling, Scotland – Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 

Inn Sidi Driss, Matmâta, Tunisia – Star Wars, 1977 

The wonderful 80s 

Silverton, New South Wales, Australia – Mad Max 2, 1981 

Welcome to Silverton, populace as of the last evaluation: 89. Either there's something about the light here, or it would seem that the very meaning of a run of the mill outback township, since movies including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), Wake in Fright (1971) and Mad Max 2 were altogether shot in and around it 

Mind you, Mad Max 2 is set in a 'whirlwind of rot in which normal men were battered and pounded', so reconsider before you visit 

The mischievous 90s 

Ischia, Gulf of Naples, Italy – The Talented Mr Ripley, 1999 

With its pastel-washed angling towns reflecting in the purplish blue waters of the Bay of Naples like some untainted, lesser known Portofino, the island of Ischia looks like only the kind of spot the global inactive rich of the 1960s may have picked as a play area wherein to loll around in cream cloth suits and Wayfarers, smoke, tune in to jazz and mull over life. Or then again data fraud and murder. 

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Twede's Cafe, North Bend, Washington, USA – Twin Peaks, 1990-present 

Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia – Muriel's Wedding, 1994 

The noughties 

Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – City of God, 2003 

Fernando Meirelles' strained hoodlum dramatization wouldn't make you like to visit the favelas of Rio, precisely, to such an extent as it causes you to thank the sky you weren't naturally introduced to indistinguishable cycles of destitution and viciousness from its characters. In any case, once in a while has a film caught the particular vitality and the life of a city so well. What's more, there is no film with a crazier samba soundtrack in sight anyplace 

The twenty-tens 

Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England – Downton Abbey, 2010-15 

Some portion of the intrigue of Downton Abbey lies in its nostalgic festival of an evaporated time of reverence and inflexible social request in which, regardless of whether privileged person or worker, everybody in any event knew their place. 

That is the hypothesis at any rate. It merits recalling that the British nobility hasn't gone anyplace, and in spite of the fact that you can visit the immense seventeenth century stately home that played Downton Abbey on certain days of the year, despite everything it has a place with the Earl of Carnarvon. 

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St James Theater, Broadway, New York – Birdman, 2014 

Aqueduct Rum, Jordan – The Martian, 2015 

Need to add more star capacity to your sightseeing plans? We have more than 100 exemplary minutes from the universe of film and TV in our Spotter's Guide to Film and TV Locations