Les lieux de tournage à Los Angeles partie 2

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00:00The urban architecture of Los Angeles is a boon for directors and other filmmakers.

00:07And if there's one place that's full of unique buildings, it's Downtown.

00:12Union Station, the city's historic train station, known for its colonial architecture

00:17Spanish, notably its entrance hall used as a courthouse in The Dark Knight Rises

00:22and as a police station in Blade Runner.

00:24Let's stay on rail transport but on a smaller scale since in 1901, the city

00:28of Los Angeles has put this unique funicular into service, because this type of lift

00:33mechanical will take you up or down a distance of 91 meters.

00:37The attraction, nicknamed Angel Flight, was very popular until the 1960s.

00:42before being officially closed in 2013 due to too many accidents, then

00:46reopened in 2017.

00:48During its closure period, the funicular will exceptionally be put back into service for

00:52the needs of the film La La Land which he will use for one of his scenes.

00:58A little further on, you will come across a building that is quite unusual due to its blue color and

01:02its rather unique art deco style, the Eastern Columbia Building.

01:06A magnificent building from the 1930s which had its moment of glory in cinema

01:10since it will welcome a certain Predator at its summit in Predator 2 in 1990.

01:15In a more modern style, you will not be able to miss the next building since it

01:19This is the tallest building in the city.

01:21I am of course talking about the Liberty Tower, now called the US Bank Tower, but I

01:26prefer Liberty Tower, it sounds less uh... capitalist.

01:29We can see it in many fictions, notably in Independence Day where Roland Emmerich

01:34enjoys destroying it, like almost all the monuments in the world.

01:37I think tourism isn't really his thing.

01:40Not far from there is the City Group Center, whose entrance hall served as the backdrop for

01:45a film that is still considered today to be the greatest thriller in the history of cinema,

01:49HIT.

01:50This hall is that of the bank robbed by De Niro and his group.

01:54They will cross it before arriving at their car where Valkilmer will fire the first shots.

01:58of fire until continuing the shooting further down the street.

02:01One of the most immersive shootouts in cinema.

02:04The Bradbury Building, hands down my favorite building here in Los Angeles.

02:09A magnificent exterior, but a totally unique interior.

02:13This sublime courtyard surrounded by visible staircases and elevators appears in dozens

02:17of film noir, but also in The Artist with Jean Dujardin, 500 Days of Summer,

02:23and especially in Riley Scott's masterpiece, Blade Runner.

02:26Where the building plays a key role since it houses The Apartment in the film

02:30of Sebastian, and that is where the climax takes place.

02:33Besides, let's stay on Blade Runner since opposite the Bradbury Building is the Million

02:37from Dollars Theater.

02:38One of the first movie palaces in the country which also appears in the same location in the film.

02:43The cinema also has the particularity of being one of the many other cinemas located

02:47on Broadway, in the historic city center.

02:50Between 1910 and 1931, twelve movie theaters were built on Broadway.

02:55This made the avenue have the largest concentration of cinemas in the world with

02:59a cumulative number of 15,000 spectators across all venues.

03:02Before the Second World War, this is where the biggest previews took place.

03:06place.

03:07But after the war, the halls began to be abandoned in favor of

03:10new rooms located in the Hollywood district.

03:12Today, all of these rooms can still be seen on Broadway, most of them abandoned,

03:17others transformed into stores, and only a tiny part continues to distribute

03:21movies.

03:22The city has promised to make an effort in terms of renovation of this true heritage

03:26cultural, and that would only be fair for a place that was once the cradle of our

03:31passion to all.

03:32everyone.

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