#movie sets

[olemisekunst]

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 (2023)

#Loki #Tom Hiddleston #lokiedit #hiddlesedit #marveledit #marvelcastedit #mcuchallenge #mcuedit #behind the scenes #movie sets #costumes #actors #gifs #my gifs

[galaad-spectre]

The Haunted Mansion (2023) movie sets

#the haunted mansion #movie sets #library #kitchen #grand hall #ballroom #seance circle #organ #gracey manor

[blacknarcissus]

They ate with these sets

The Princess Bride (1987)

#the princess bride #rob reiner #cinematography #movie sets #book adaptation #matte painting #classic film #movies #1980s #1980s cinema #romance #comedy #christmas movies

[arch-obsessed]

Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse, a Fuchsia Fantasy Inspired by Palm Springs

Barbie’s Dreamhouse is no place for the bashful. “There are no walls and no doors,” says Greta Gerwig via email. “Dreamhouses assume that you never have anything you wish was private—there is no place to hide.” That layered domestic metaphor has proved rich fodder for the filmmaker, whose live-action homage to the iconic Mattel doll hits theaters July 21.

To translate this panopticon play world to the screen, Gerwig enlisted production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer, the London-based team behind such period realms as Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina. The two took inspiration from Palm Springs midcentury modernism, including Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann House and other icons photographed by Slim Aarons. “Everything about that era was spot-on,” says Greenwood, who strove “to make Barbie real through this unreal world.”

Neither she nor Spencer had ever owned a Barbie before, so they ordered a Dreamhouse off Amazon to study. “The scale was quite strange,” recalls Spencer, explaining how they adjusted its rooms’ quirky proportions to 23 percent smaller than human size for the set. Says Gerwig: “The ceiling is actually quite close to one’s head, and it only takes a few paces to cross the room. It has the odd effect of making the actors seem big in the space but small overall.”

Erected at the Warner Bros. Studios lot outside London, Barbie’s cinematic home reinterprets Neutra’s work as a three-story fuchsia fantasy, with a slide that coils into a kidney-shaped pool. “I wanted to capture what was so ridiculously fun about the Dreamhouses,” says Gerwig, alluding to past incarnations like the bohemian 1970s model (outfitted with trompe l’oeil Tiffany lamps) and the 2000 Queen Anne Victorian manse, complete with Philippe Starck lounge chairs. “Why walk down stairs when you can slide into your pool? Why trudge up stairs when you take an elevator that matches your dress?” Her own references ranged from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure to Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of pies to Gene Kelly’s tiny painter’s garret in An American in Paris.

For Barbie’s bedroom, the team paired a clamshell headboard upholstered in velvet with a sequined coverlet. Her closet, meanwhile, reveals coordinated outfits in toy-box vitrines. “It’s very definitely a house for a single woman,” says Greenwood, noting that when the first Dreamhouse (a cardboard foldout) was sold in 1962 it was rare for a woman to own her own home. Adds Spencer: “She is the ultimate feminist icon.”

In Barbie, as in previous films like Little Women and Lady Bird, Gerwig set out to realize a whole world. “We were literally creating the alternate universe of Barbie Land,” says the director, who aimed for “authentic artificiality” at every opportunity. As a case in point, she cites the use of a hand-painted backdrop rather than CGI to capture the sky and the San Jacinto Mountains. “Everything needed to be tactile, because toys are, above all, things you touch.”

Everything also needed to be pink. “Maintaining the ‘kid-ness’ was paramount,” Gerwig says. “I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much.” In other words, she continues, she didn’t want to “forget what made me love Barbie when I was a little girl.” Construction, Greenwood notes, caused an international run on the fluorescent shade of Rosco paint. “The world,” she laughs, “ran out of pink.”

#obsessed is an understatement #barbie #movie sets #set design #barbie 2023 #greta gerwig #architecture #interior design #interiors

[flanaganfilm]

Hi mike!!!

Quick question! What is your favorite set out of all 4 of your shows on Netflix? I think they are the most amazing sets I’ve seen!

All of Crockett Island. We built every single structure you see in the show from scratch, and it still takes my breath away.

If you want a comprehensive look at how we did it all, I highly recommend Abbie Bernstein's book MIDNIGHT MASS: THE ART OF HORROR. It goes very in-depth into the sets and the production design.

#midnight mass #production design #Steve arnold #movie sets

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Big Bend Ranch State Park - The now-demolished Contrabando movie set near Lajitas, Texas

Image via home. – Junk Gypsy Blog

#missions #movie sets #Texas

[of-fear-and-love]

Interiors from Barry Lyndon (1975)

#barry lyndon #1975 #1970s film #70s movies #william makepeace thackeray #stanley kubrick #interiors #set design #historical costuming #movie sets

[icons-characters-and-gifs]

Sets from Alice in Wonderland 1999 (you can watch the whole movie on youtube)

#screenshot #alice in wonderland #movie sets #wonderland #live action alice #1999 alice #nostalgia #fantasy #fantasy scenery #movie recommendation #90s #nostaliga #nostalgic

[okeibai]

横店, October autumn moon festival/ national holiday

#photography #movie sets #historical drama #chinese drama sets #theatre #cdrama #travel

[indigokashmir]

A Touch of Modernity

The Bust'n B Ranch, marked by traditional Indigenous and Latin craftsmanship with a touch of modernity.

The home is located around 10 minutes from Pioneertown. Pioneertown, founded in 1946 by iconic Western actors like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, served as a Hollywood western set town for projects such as The Range Rider, Cisco Kid, and The Gene Autry Show. The ranch, owned by the mother-son development company Wedgar Properties, functions as both a pied-à-terre and a short-term vacation rental.

Approximately 30 minutes from the western entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, the Bust'n B Ranch embodies the Santa Fe architectural style reminiscent of New Mexico. Resembling traditional pueblo and adobe homes in the American Southwest, it features flat roofs and rounded exterior corners made from mud puddles, akin to Native American dwellings.

#Desert Living #Neutral tones #Joshua Tree national park #westerns #movie sets #california dreaming #desert aesthetic #cactus #wabi sabi #bedrooms #kitchens #native americans #santa fe #mexican interiors #modern interiors #less is more #modern architecture #wild wild west

[travelella]

Hobbiton Movie Set Tours, Matamata, New Zealand

conner bowe

#Hobbiton Movie Set Tours #Matamata #New Zealand #Oceania #Movie Set #LOTR #Hobbit #The Hobbit #Movie Sets

[olemisekunst]

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 (2023)

#Loki #Tom Hiddleston #lokiedit #hiddlesedit #marveledit #marvelcastedit #mcuchallenge #mcuedit #behind the scenes #movie sets #costumes #actors #gifs #my gifs

[galaad-spectre]

#the haunted mansion #movie #hatbox ghost #ghost host #stretching room #sets #movie sets #disney

[hollywoodoutbreak]

This week marks a milestone for a band that's been rocking America for decades: It was 40 years ago that Bon Jovi released its self-titled debut album. Although the album stalled out at No. 43 on Billboard's album chart and the single Runaway only made it to No. 39 on the Hot 100, it laid the groundwork for the string of hit albums that would follow, starting with Slippery When Wet in 1986. With more than four decades of Bon Jovi history in the books, the band, along with director Gotham Chopra, have memorialized that history with a four-part documentary series, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story. We've spoken to Jon Bon Jovi several times over the years, told us that one of his most interesting fan encounters came on a movie set, when the director introduced him to a very, very dedicated fan.

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story will premiere on Hulu in April.

#Bon Jovi #debut album #rock music #Billboard charts #Runaway #Slippery When Wet #documentary series #Thank You #Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story #Jon Bon Jovi #fan encounters #movie sets #dedication #music history #rock legends #iconic bands #classic rock #music nostalgia #Music #music news

[septembergold]

#Görlitz #sweets #movie sets #grand budapest hotel #wes anderson #moviestars #cakes

[space-blue]

Pointless environments in cinema

You know what I was thinking about while watching Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness?

Book of Boba Fett.

What do these two have in common? Environments the cast is completely disconnected from.

On Tatooine it's the "double suns", made completely trivial. An artifact to CGI in the sky. Nobody sweats. Nobody wears hats or shawls or anything to protect from the heat. You have a pasty white girl zipping around in a sleeveless leather jacket, who genuinely looks like the live action version of "the beacons of Gondor are lit" joke.

The environment is forgotten and never impacts the story, even to ludicrous degrees like when Boba is staked out in the sun without water for an entire day, and as a result the show appears to be shot in a studio back lot.

Tatooine has no personality, it has no presence. It isn't a character in the show, the way Arrakis is in Dune. In that film you can feel the animosity of the planet. Its dangers, the way it shaped its people, the way it pushes our characters to act and react, just to stay alive.

Meanwhile, Dr. Strange, an otherwise enjoyable film, just cannot help itself and must have an entire set atop a snow-storm ridden mountaintop.

But do you know what? It would be FINE if there wasn't a snow storm!! Was it the only way you could make your 2-cent lovecraftian temple look creepy? Is the hail of snowflakes to distract us from the cheap set quality?

Because no one, and I mean nobody, ever breathes a puff of white air while in that set. The sorcerer supreme and a reality altering witch? OK I can buy they somehow have ways to be immune to the cold, though watching them cast a spell to adjust would be neat. But America Chavez? Is she supernatural somehow? I thought all she could do was punch holes in the multiverse, does that come with cold resistance?

This mountain is supposed to be at some impossibly tall peak, covered in snow, in a snowstorm and no one ever gives a shit or mentions the cold or exhales the air they should. Or gives any trouble while hanging off a rock face. Just, entirely pointless.

Once you notice, it bugs you the entire time. You're back on the studio parking lot, with CGI snow.

But you know, if you spent 2min more focusing on making this temple a little more than a bare facade with a non-creepy mural, we could be spooked even without the snow storm. Mountain peaks have sunny days too! That would be fine! You don't have to lean into the most basic and desperate of clichés... And if you do, the odd extra puff of hot air would be appreciated. Or a bit of a sheen on someone's brow, and, you know, creative place appropriate clothing so we can suspend that disbelief a bit.

In general it's getting rarer to see shows set in fun places that actually pay attention to the environment and ask themselves how it would impact the story they're telling.

#dr strange #dr strange and the multiverse of madness #dr strange spoilers #spoilers #bobf #sw #star wars #the book of boba fett #environment #dune #snip talks #movies #movie sets