Over there in the town square stands the city hall, beside it the Flugelheim Museum and the cinema beyond it, further up the main street, are the imposing steps of the cathedral. American cars are parked, shop windows are dressed, the cafes are full of tables and soda fountains. The shocking first impression is of waking from a dream and emerging into Magritte's vision of New York City. Today, though, even these spectacular inventions are a step down from the striking sight that stops any visitor in their tracks.
The heroic amphitheatres for Superman One, Two and Three, the original city of Alexandria before Elizabeth Taylor's illness shifted it to Italy and most of James Bond's exotic trouble spots were all lovingly created here in this Hollywood of the Home Counties.
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The 95-acre back lot at Pinewood Studios has been the setting for some of the loftier visions of movie designers down the years. For three months last year helicopters flew overhead to try to catch a glimpse of this forbidden city as the dramas unfolded down below. Gotham City, home of The Dark Knight, would be an unprecedented sight, to be built at Pinewood, Buckinghamshire. There were no half measures when Hollywood finally decided to make Batman. This article was first published in Empire Magazine Issue #2 (August 1989).
Three months in Gotham with a shocking new Batman~ BY IAIN JOHNSTONE ~ !(/classicfeature/) Dark Knight In The City Of Dreams
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