I was otherwise engaged, and your journal moved. Time has been doing odd relative things here, sorry it took so long to catch up.
The most haunting thing about this film, which probably won't hit you unless you've lived in london, is the empty streets. Its like seeing someone you care about lying deathly still, and that heart dropping feeling that you have to check they are still breathing. they couldn't get permission to actually close the streets for filming, they just filmed very early morning, and asked people nicely if they would mind waiting out of shot while they filmed, which, it being london, they patiently did.
[on an earlier post- the willy wonker factories were right by where i grew up as a child, in reality they are victorian buildings full of vast water pumping equipment, but all built on the grand gothic scale only the victorians could manage, who now puts grand arched windows in a water processing plant?]
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Date: 2003-07-07 10:20 am (UTC)Time has been doing odd relative things here, sorry it took so long to catch up.
The most haunting thing about this film, which probably won't hit you unless you've lived in london, is the empty streets.
Its like seeing someone you care about lying deathly still, and that heart dropping feeling that you have to check they are still breathing.
they couldn't get permission to actually close the streets for filming, they just filmed very early morning, and asked people nicely if they would mind waiting out of shot while they filmed, which, it being london, they patiently did.
[on an earlier post- the willy wonker factories were right by where i grew up as a child, in reality they are victorian buildings full of vast water pumping equipment, but all built on the grand gothic scale only the victorians could manage, who now puts grand arched windows in a water processing plant?]