The Owens Valley in California is a very popular filming location for Hollywood Studios. Over one hundred films have been set in the valley, including numerous recent box office hits. The Owens Valley is the deepest valley in North America. It has a dramatic setting at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It lies at an elevation of about 4,000 feet with the Sierra Nevadas rising to over 14,000 feet to the west. This dramatic setting, with dry open terrain makes it a popular choice for movie producers.
Movies often portray settings that are not the actual location the movie is filmed. For example, early in 2008 movie "Iron Man", Robert Downey, Jr.'s character is in a convoy in what is said to be Afghanistan. The scene was actually filmed in the Owens Valley near Lone Pine.
The Owens Valley is attractive for film producers as they are looking for locations that are cost-effective, convenient, and offer facilities that can handle the hundreds of people working on a studio film production. The valley is about two hundred miles north of Los Angeles area, where many film studios are based. It is open, dry, not very populated and has dramatic mountain scenery. The valley was historically a popular location to film Westerns.
The city of Lone Pine, which is the nearest city to 14,495-foot 메리트카지노 Mt. Whitney, is a very popular film location. The surrounding area was featured in the 2000 Oscar winning film, Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe; the 2000 movie Gone in Sixty Seconds, starring Nicolas Cage, and the 2009 film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In Gone in Sixty Seconds, Nicolas Cage's character has retired as from being a master car thief and relocated to a small, quiet and scenic town that is actually Lone Pine.
Other movies that feature Lone Pine area include the 1993 movie Kalifornia, starring Brad Pitt, 1994 film Maverick starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster; and G.I. Jane, a 1997 movie starring Demi Moore.
Evil genius Le Chiffre is trying to fund his international terror network by making a windfall profit through short trading the stocks of an important airliner. For him to profit, the airliner must experience a disaster.
But when Bond prevents that from taking place, Le Chiffre kicks his Plan B into action - skimming off $150 million at the poker table. Place: "Casino Royale," Montenegro.
Despite an initial setback, Bond ends up spoiling that plot as well with the aid of the gorgeous Eva Green playing Vesper Lynd, the MI6's chief accountant. That's basically what the Plot A is all about.
Plot B, the sub-plot, is about the romance between Bond and Vesper. And yes, James Bond really falls heads over heels in love in this one! Sacrebleu! Do I need to say anything else to describe what kind of a "very different" Bond movie this is?
Daniel Craig as James Bond is good but very different in this latest addition to the long-standing string of Bond movies which depicts a young Bond earning his "00" status. This is a prequel to everything that comes after it. We are watching Bond coming into his own by proving his metal to a skeptical M.
Partly, the times we are living through is responsible for the very different tone of this prequel. Daniel Craig spending a good part of the movie in shirts soaked in blood should give you an idea about the scale of realistic violence in this movie.
(To continue in Part 2.)