Room With a Crew: Architecture & Setting in Film

[memememe76]

I loved Christian's condo in 50 Shades of Grey. The Brownstone in Moonstruck. The house in The Big Chill. Celine's pied a terre in Before Sunset. The stately mansion and manour in The Remains of the Days.

[Smilla]

Ahhhh, Remains of the Day manour. (Plus, Christopher Reeve.) Memories.

[Smilla]

Jul 22, 2005 14:11:31 GMT -4 memememe76 said:

I loved Christian's condo in 50 Shades of Grey.

Sorry to double post, but I just had to mention that I totally and completely loved the settings in Fifty Shades Darker. Made me want to rediscover that long lost dream to try living (and not going broke) in Seattle.

[chiqui]

That movie is out now?

Last night I watched an old movie from 1975 called The Wild Party, which is set in the Hollywood of 1929. The main character's mansion (he is a silent film star) is to die for, all Hispanic castle grandeur which was, for the wild party of the title, decked out in kitschy Chinese lanterns and idols, with the band in Chinese "houseboy" costumes.

[sumire]

May 1, 2016 3:06:47 GMT -4 sumire said:

A chance link on TV Tropes introduced me to "That Pool" (a better name for it might be "Hey! It's That Pool"), a distinctive-looking indoor swimming pool that gained internet fame in Japan for having been the setting of a lot of pinup photos and porn videos.

That Pool can be rented from P-Studio, a Tokyo film/photoshoot location agency. I'm kind of fascinated by the location catalog on their website--they've got all these apartments ready to go for your next photoshoot, cheap-ass drama, or decently-budgeted porno. Some are just normal luxury apartments (mouseover the red arrows on the floor plan to see a photo from that angle), others are a schizoid mishmosh of rooms, like this one, where around $500 gets you three hours with a suite of rooms that kind of fakely evoke a wholesome family apartment, a somewhat tawdry red-walled lounge, a dim length of brick-walled corridor, and a raw concrete industrial/construction site complete with rubble and oil drums. You could practically shoot an entire show there (or porn films for a diverse group of audiences.)

The above links are safe for work; the following ones may be iffy:

Know Your Meme: That Pool
Kotaku: The Most Infamous Swimming Pool in Japanese Pornography

Quoting myself from 8 months ago, because OMG, I just saw That Pool on my TV! It wasn't porn, my mom channel-surfed to our Japanese channel that shows "Aibou" reruns, and it happened to be the episode cited in the Kotaku article. Because I'd spent so much time perusing pictures of the entire location, I also recognized the apartment's fancy tacky main room with the chandelier and staircase, used for another scene.

[chiqui]

That's an odd looking pool. I'd feel afraid that bank of windows would fall down on me and crush me.