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Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #46
Animats wrote: post #36

The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…

This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.

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Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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Post by yamazakiwi »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #46
Animats wrote: post #36

The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…

This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.

I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navigating the course with fake hostages and combatants etc. all while Master of Puppets was assaulting my ears. You couldn't escape it either, we were being sound-gunned on every floor and every room.

Anyway, just thought I'd share since Sound is something people forget when imagining training in these buildings and the experience was invaluable.

Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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Post by js2 »

> From the beginning, shooting a movie on a public bridge [Pont-Neuf] in the centre of Paris was complicated. The production team wanted to block off the bridge for three months, but the application was rejected. Instead, a model was created by the set designer Michel Vandestein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Amants_du_Pont-Neuf

> In the middle of farmland they constructed the Pont Neuf, the familiar facades along the 14th-century quays on the Left Bank, the Samaritaine department store on the Right Bank, and that portion of the Ile de la Cite, in the middle of the Seine, where the bridge crosses the island to set off the Square of the Vert Gallant, the garden at the island's western tip dominated by the equestrian statue of Henri IV.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/06/movies/review-film-lovers...

More information about the set:

http://lemuseedufake.com/leblog/2015/04/les-amants-du-pont-n...

(I recommend this film BTW, for the spectacle of it if nothing else.)

Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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Post by Eduard »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #46
Animats wrote: post #36

The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…

This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.

this is so grotesque to read. Imagine a fake all-American town constructed in China, and someone commenting "This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties."

Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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Post by TylerE »

Perhaps the most interesting of these is Pioneertown, CA. It's a real fake real town. Built in the 1940's to look like a town from the 1880's, so in that sense it was a fake town. But it was a real town, lived in by mostly movie people. The saloon, when it wasn't used for filming? The actual town bar. Peak population was 500 or so. Many many movies and tv shows filmed there.

Re: Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

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Post by nier »

drexlspivey wrote: post #64
Someone wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings. Kubrick took quite an interest in perfecting all aspects of his films. https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinn... : “Stanley Kubrick movies are notorious for having multiple takes. One instance is in Eyes Wide Shut, when Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Hartford walks through a door. He just walks through a door. That's it. 95 times Cruise…

The scenes shot with these Zeiss lenses look gorgeous. The whole scene is lit up by the candles only, he needed super fast lenses to capture enough light. The whole movie actually is only shot with natural light. https://youtu.be/KT7IYpjcpD4?si=bmDsRtDhclICdHTU

So the only light source in the scene right after, the one where she goes out on the terrace, is the moon?
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