8 impressive spaces in cinema...
Submitted by Vincenzo on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:08
Tags:
- 1. The Kitchen - in The Cook, The Theif, The Wife and Her Lover
- 2. Mr. Tuttle's Office - In Brazil
- 3. Hotel Room - In Apocalypse Now
- 4. Hall of Bodies - Coma
- 5. Upstairs Hallway - The Shining
- 6. Alien Mothership - Alien
- 7. Inside the heart - Inner Space
- 8. Knight's field - The Natural
Author Comments:
...to be continued...
Hi, this is bertie. UncRoger has beat me to several of your other lists, but I don't care because I think this one is the most intriguing.
I was impressed by the creepiness of all the interiors of the HOTEL EARL in Barton Fink. Then there's the ROOM OF MIRRORS where the final showdown occurs in the Bruce Lee movie Enter The Dragon. There are at least two impressive spaces in Citizen Kane: (1) the LIVING ROOM at Xanadu, with its huge fireplace, (2) the STORAGE ROOM in the final scene with its thousands of unopened crates. Let's see... there must be lots in sf movies...how about the METEOR CRATER at Barringer, Arizona, which featured in the Jeff Bridges movie Starman...the CIRCULAR DECK in the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey - the one Keir Dullea jogs around...oh, and in the same movie, the ALIEN APARTMENT in which KD undergoes his transformation.
You wrote "to be continued..." - I'd like to see more of your impressive spaces.
Okay, how about the boiler room in Titanic? It was impressive and surprising to see the underbelly of the boat. How about the very rich scenes of heaven (the painting?) and hell in What Dreams May Come? The bedrooms in The Haunting were so detailed that I wanted to explore them.
The Swamp of Sadness in The Never Ending Story seemed very oppressive to me even as a child watching the movie. The slaughtered buffalo spread out over the plains in Dances With Wolves comes to mind as well. I'm not sure these are the kinds of things you have been referring to, but these are places that have kind of stuck in my head ever since I saw them on screen.