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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting eommen: Quote:
I do care about the filming locations, as it strongly reflects the content of the movie. If something is filmed inside a studio in Finland or in Australia, how does it "strongly reflects the content of the movie"? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 485 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
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I do care about the filming locations, as it strongly reflects the content of the movie.
If something is filmed inside a studio in Finland or in Australia, how does it "strongly reflects the content of the movie"? In short: local culture. I know this is under the assumption that a film is produced, filmed, edited etc. in one country. But see it this way: most movies made in Hollywood are with universal or USA themes. Bollywood movies reflect the Indian subcontinent. Etc. Likewise, nobody will assume 'Casablanca' reflects Maroccan culture. It would be hard to shoot 'Medicine Man' or 'Predator' in a studio in Finland, I mean, lots of forests in Finland AFAIK, but not the right kind (no offence). Yes, of course there are exceptions to this. The last decade saw production companies flee to cheap labour countries. Spaghetti westerns were made in Italy (and AFAIK Spain), not in the USA. But I think I explained my 'strongly' ...  | | | Eric
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| Registered: June 15, 2012 |  Posts: 428 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
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End credits of the movie state
"Filmed at Village Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast, Australia
Frankfurt AM Main, Germany and New York, USA"
And Village Roadshow isn't mentioned anywhere else in credits? I find that very hard to believe since it was one of the production companies. It's not mentioned anywhere else, and I don't think they were one of the production companies. There is no other reference to them on the cover or the film (unless I missed something else in the credits), I believe they just used their facilities to film some of the movie. Anyway, this thread isn't about one particular movie |
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| Registered: June 15, 2012 | | Posts: 428 |
| | Posted: | | | | Most movies seem to have near the end the credits a "Filmed at.." which is usually just a few major locations.
Do you guys think it should be possible to include these in DvdP? Including a rule that the locations must match as stated on the film credits? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,337 |
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Do you guys think it should be possible to include these in DvdP? Including a rule that the locations must match as stated on the film credits? We already have IMDB for movie details. DVDP is for DVD/Blu-ray/HD DVD details. IMHO we already have enough movie related fields. |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,665 |
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Most movies seem to have near the end the credits a "Filmed at.." which is usually just a few major locations.
Do you guys think it should be possible to include these in DvdP? Including a rule that the locations must match as stated on the film credits? I use the CoO field to, when possible, represent where the film takes place. I really don't care where the production company is. I of course keep this local. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,334 |
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Do you guys think it should be possible to include these in DvdP? Including a rule that the locations must match as stated on the film credits? As I said... I have no use for it and I wouldn't make any contributions for the field. From there it would be up to Ken. If he did add it I would hope it wouldn't be in the general window so I would be forced to have it show in my profiles. Or give us a way to decide which fields show up in the general window so I could turn it off (and a couple other things there now that I don't care about). | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: June 15, 2012 | | Posts: 428 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well if you look at it that way and think logically about the CoO being directly related to the production company. Then in all reality the Studios is a better place for it, really it seems far more logical to have the studio fields thus:
Columbia Pictures, USA
Blind Spot Pictures Oy, Finland
Icon Entertainment International, UK
Rather then list the studio name in the current locations and then off to the side further up near the top right corner display the countries these studios are from. That's all the CoO is, according to the rules, the place where the studio company's head office is. Having all that info listed in the studio field, would also ensure the studio<-->CoO would always be correct as it's the same field. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Parsec: Quote:
Well if you look at it that way and think logically about the CoO being directly related to the production company. Then in all reality the Studios is a better place for it, really it seems far more logical to have the studio fields thus:
Columbia Pictures, USA
Blind Spot Pictures Oy, Finland
Icon Entertainment International, UK
Rather then list the studio name in the current locations and then off to the side further up near the top right corner display the countries these studios are from. That's all the CoO is, according to the rules, the place where the studio company's head office is. Having all that info listed in the studio field, would also ensure the studio<-->CoO would always be correct as it's the same field. That doesn't seem logical to me at all. The studio field is for the name of the studio. Where it is located is not part of the name. If I am being honest, I have no real need for the CoO and don't want that information infecting a field I do care about. As for my thought on a filming location field, I have zero interest in it. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Parsec: Quote:
Well if you look at it that way and think logically about the CoO being directly related to the production company. Then in all reality the Studios is a better place for it, really it seems far more logical to have the studio fields thus:
Columbia Pictures, USA
Blind Spot Pictures Oy, Finland
Icon Entertainment International, UK
Rather then list the studio name in the current locations and then off to the side further up near the top right corner display the countries these studios are from. That's all the CoO is, according to the rules, the place where the studio company's head office is. Having all that info listed in the studio field, would also ensure the studio<-->CoO would always be correct as it's the same field. I actually think this is a pretty neat idea. Definitely better than having the countries thrown together without context. But I think it should be an option to display (and contribute) the countries for the studio field, not a requirement. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Parsec: Quote:
While we have 'Country of Origin' for profiles in the database, this only refers to where the pokey little registered office of the film production company is.
I think it would be nice to have a field/section where we can state where the actual movie was made.
An example of this is the movie "Triangle" by Icon Entertainment International which has it's registered office in England (London I think). However the entire film was produced in Australia.
Another example is Iron Sky whose production company is registered in Finland while the movie had a lot of filming in Australia (with a lot of Aust/NZ cast). Great idea. I think its very useful information. |
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