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8 movies where scenery is the star: 'Harry Potter'
8 movies where scenery is the star
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pinothyj
Feb 22 2013 at 10:01 AM
Are you serious? No 'The Fall' here? Enter 'the fall movie' into google images and you get a face full of beauty. Enter the same into Bing Images and you get a whole lot of unrelated images (really MS?). Even viewing the images on IMDB is enough to make you want to visit all of the locations. Speaking of locations of 'The Fall': Taj Lake Palace, Lake Pichola, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India; Teges Village, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia; Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India; Andaman Islands, India; Brazil;
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Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina; Butterfly Reef, Fiji; Cambodia; Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Chand Baori, Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India; Charles Bridge, Old Town, Prague, Czech Republic; Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; Chile; China; Dunsfold Park, Dunsfold, Surrey, England, UK; Egypt; Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India; Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey; Himalayas, Nepal; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA; Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India; Maldives; Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; Pangong Lake, Jammu & Kashmir, India; Paris, France; Romania; Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia; Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia; Spain; Sumatra, Indonesia; and Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Le sigh...
'Harry Potter,' Scottish Highlands
Perhaps more CGI-enhanced and sound-stage-shot than "The Lord of the Rings," the Harry Potter franchise (which began in 2001) is another blockbuster that features great scenery that actually exists. Many of the panoramas and landscape shots were filmed in Scotland, arguably one of the most naturally beautiful regions in Europe.
Parents who want to introduce their kids to the world of nature tourism could get them excited about a trip to the U.K.'s most nature-oriented nation by talking up the trip as an expedition to see the Potter locations, like Scotland's Glenfinnan Viaduct shown here. The lochs of the Fort William area, which sit in the shadow of Ben Nevis (Scotland's tallest mountain), featured heavily in several Potter films, while many of the panoramas of the lands surrounding Potter's Hogwarts School were filmed in the stunning Glencoe area.
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