Future Movie Settings: Fascinating Buildings
Many of you know that I make movies. But five years ago, as a result of the Pandemic-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named, movie theatres were closed and film production stopped dead in it tracks. My wife Trudy and I (she co-produces with me) were tired of being shut inside (who wasn’t?). So we started taking location-scouting daytrips to snap pics of potential future film sites. We loved it, and have continued to do so ever since. Here are some images I’ve entitled Future Movie Settings: Fascinating Buildings.
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Each of these photos holds a story. I often find myself looking at the scenery in a movie more often than the interaction of the actors. Special places that you’ve seen will make future stories to put together with wonderful stories.
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Some amazing kept or restored classic architecture pictured here, Mitch. Thank you.
My pleasure, G.W.
Lots of good choices here! 🙂
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Beautiful photos…I can see very interesting characters living there…
Thank you, Doval.
I think I like the old gas station especially here, complete with a curled up US flag and closed sign below. Rather apt for the times I might say. Looking forward to future movie production.
Thanks, Xavier.
Great photos and a vivid memory for me from my childhood. I haven’t seen the Shillito Building since I was nine and lived in a burb outside of Cincinnati. (Not totally pleasant as my mom had taken us shopping, I got bored and accidentally broke a large display mirror in Cincinnati’s largest department store – Not how I got the nickname, “Dirt” however.)
;>) Thanks, Dirt.
oooh . . some spectacular buildings here ! I’m drooling. .
Love the old houses/mansions, from the days when they were made with decorative details just because they looked great, something that builders pretty much stopped doing later. Also really liked that whimsical ravens statue
Me too, Katie. The building was once the home of Cincinnati’s iconic Rookwood Pottery, hence the rooks at the entrance.
Exelent!!!🌈🌟🎁👌. Is very beautiful .
Some interesting and beautiful buildings. When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be visual obscenities, such as the “eyesore on I-4” in Orlando. That would definitely work as the setting for some dystopian sci-fi film!
I debated about what adjective to use, Lynn, but definitely wasn’t going for “eyesores”! I’m not familiar with the one you’re referring to.
Above all I like the wooden houses, they look so American to me… I could imagine a multigeneration family film going on in one of these houses. And the marriages would take place in the neo-gothic Basilica with the unfinished towers. Well my phantasy just “run off”.
;>) Good!
Interesting buildings…and a lot of movies-in-the-making. I have an axe to grind with the film and television industry…but the buildings you’ve shared here are interesting nonetheless.
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Love the photos. What a mix of architecture.
Oh my goodness! So many fabulous structures…they speak to me!
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I like that a period of restriction like the pandemic led to such a creative habit. I can relate to that too. The variety of images is stunning. It makes me realize how much ‘cinematic’ history we walk past every day. Thanks for sharing these, Mitch.
My pleasure, Mohamad.
You have interesting architecture in the US. There are several imposing detached houses with porches and verandas there! Are they all constructed solely of wood? Each one is quaint and unique, though they do make me feel a bit like a mad axe murderer might be lurking! 😂 We don’t really have houses like that in the UK. Most are brick built and a lot less interesting to look at!
There are plenty of brick houses here too, Lynn (ours is brick). But, yes, wood frame houses, usually with clapboard exteriors, are a classic American mode.
Love those pics x
Thank you, Joey.
These are awesome!
Thank you, Theresa!
What interesting locations! Each one is waiting for a story 😎👏
Wow….I am inspired just by looking at the pictures.
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Gorgeous churches, and I love the house with the red shutters!
I always have a soft spot for the lugubrious Richardsonian Romanesque, especially when it tries to get a spire to launch skyward. Our Carnegie Library building here in San Luis Obispo is a “pint-size Richardsonian Romanesque,” which is rather an architectural oxymoron. Thank you for the tour!
Paula
I hadn’t known the name for that style until now, Paula. Delighted to hear from you❣
Howdy All?
Every detail stories.
The settings tapestries are richly storied with scenes of mystery gothic noir adventure psychological thrillers.
Daily, we are storying our lives as we go.
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A scene instance:
The old, whitewashed flying-buttress buildings and weather-beaten or wind-swept walls of the lodge snuggles in the nub of Lake Mountain, screened by the married confetti or explosive tree branches and brume or souper that softens and obscures it into a smog or desert mirage.
Nobody talks.
If he is roused,” Theona, his kindly partner, concluded with further admonition. “One soul-searing kiss upon his – Count Orlok’s – lips would leave him nothing but bone-ash and eternal silence, since he is clairaudient and macrosmatic — superbly seeing with his ears and via odours of victims.”
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Brothers and sisters, why not pull one up together? All of us here connect, communicate and limb by limb put it all together in a story or a film.
I do have a treasure of ready weavings…
Severally, I meekly propose such inklings or ideas to brothers and sisters yet none moves on it.
But then again, whenever you have an idea do something about it in the first twenty four hours…who knows what resoundingly marvellous will germinate out of it by the ultimate author of life for the value and blessing of all?
May you all have productive days.
I could be haunted in that blue Wyoming house 🩵
Some absolutely gorgeous buildings. Thanks for sharing with us
My pleasure, Kristen.
The photos are stunning!
Thank you, Mez.
I wonder what stories you’ll weave from each of them.
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Love the pics, what a great way to spend your time together!
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Looks like y’all found some great locations!
We did indeed, April!
Really beautiful places!
Thank you.