Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

When I went to see 'Da Vinci Code', the sound was bad during the previews.

And me? I couldn't even enjoy the DaVinci Code. Right away, there was the real Louvre! I mean, c'mon, couldn't they have made up some fictional museum??? Totally wrecked it for me. God knows how much The Louvre paid for that product placement. It was all over the film. Gak, the movie started there, ended there. Bleh.

Why did they have to use the actual Westminster Abbey? Totally took me out of the story.

And what's up with using "Catholicism?" A made-up religion would have been much better. How much do you suppose The Pope paid for that?!?!

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And me? I couldn't even enjoy the DaVinci Code. Right away, there was the real Louvre! I mean, c'mon, couldn't they have made up some fictional museum??? Totally wrecked it for me. God knows how much The Louvre paid for that product placement. It was all over the film. Gak, the movie started there, ended there. Bleh.

Why did they have to use the actual Westminster Abbey? Totally took me out of the story.

And what's up with using "Catholicism?" A made-up religion would have been much better. How much do you suppose The Pope paid for that?!?!

Bwahahahaha

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Why did they have to use the actual Westminster Abbey? Totally took me out of the story.

Actually, they were forbidden from filming at Westminster Abbey. Another location was substituted. Link.

[innerSpaceman]

Well, I just checked the running commentary for Cast Away, and no one paid anyone else in connection with FedEx being chosen as the real delivery company. The filmmakers wanted a real company, they asked FedEx, and FedEx said 'yes.'

(heheh, in discussing why he wanted a real company, Zemeckis also uses the laughably bad example of TransGlobal Airlines. Great minds think alike.)



And yes, the DaVinci Code used only the exterior of the real Westminster Abbey. Apparently, the Abbey didn't mean Ron Howard's price for featuring the inside.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Well, I just checked the running commentary for Cast Away, and no one paid anyone else...

Ho ho. They sure did. FedEx had to supply the production with a crew that insured that FedEx was portrayed accurately. They supplied the logos, uniforms, boxes... That's a form of payment.

And if it was soooo important for things to be realistic, the beginning of the movie was set in 1995. FedEx was known as FDX Corp in 1995. The name FedEx didn't come to be until 2000.

What GD said about your 'Da Vinci' comparison. You can't compare the two.

CP ~ I'm thinking we agree.

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Ho ho. They sure did. FedEx had to supply the production with a crew that insured that FedEx was portrayed accurately. They supplied the logos, uniforms, boxes... That's a form of payment.

And if it was soooo important for things to be realistic, the beginning of the movie was set in 1995. FedEx was known as FDX Corp in 1995. The name FedEx didn't come to be until 2000.

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I know this sounds totally geeky of me, but, Space Mountain in Disneyland was sponsored by "Fed Ex" as of 1995. I think the name Fed Ex has been around longer than 6 years.

Where's Ubergeek42 ?

Um, as for supplying logos, they didn't. Fed Ex only gave permission to use the logo. None were supplied by them for the film. They did allow usage of a real Fed Ex airplane but that's it. Loaning someone a vehicle is hardly payment. By that same principle, €uroMeinke is paying me to post on LoT.