If you’re a member of New York Transit Museum, you can explore this New York landmark through guided tours.įor the look of Jacob Kowalski’s home, the production took its inspiration from the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street. Although trains no longer stop at Old City Hall station, the track is still used as a turnaround for the 6 Line. The subway station is modelled on the Old City Hall subway station, opened in 1904 and closed to the public in 1945. A carved stone owl atop the building’s entrance really is part of Cass Gilbert’s original design, and fitted neatly into the film's world. MACUSA’s HQ is supposed to be the Neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, the tallest building in the world when it opened in 1913. The interior of St George’s Hall was used to film the political rally.Īlthough there was no filming at all in the Big Apple, you may want to check out some of the city’s landmarks that inspired the look of the film. The classical pillared exterior of the famous St George's Hall (again, digitally enhanced) can be seen when Frank the Thunderbird flies away to freedom in the West. The Cunard Building’s old ticket hall was transformed into the interior of ‘Macy’s’ department store when Newt, American witch Tina ( Katherine Waterston) and ‘No-Maj’ Jacob Kowalski ( Dan Fogler) go looking for the Occamy, which has gone missing from Newt’s capacious bag. Once home to the Cunard Line, the Anglo-American cruise line which for many years operated passenger ships across the North Atlantic Ocean, it’s the centre of a trio of landmarks at Liverpool’s Pier Head waterfront, including the Royal Liver Building and the Port of Liverpool Building, together known as ‘The Three Graces’. Liverpool's Grade II-listed Cunard Building on George's Pier Head at Water Street, built in 1917, was used as the facade of the imposing headquarters of MACUSA, the Magical Congress of the United States of America, the US equivalent of the Ministry of Magic. The opening scene in the banking hall uses the interior of the disused ornate old Martins Bank, 4 Water Street, Liverpool, which has been closed for several years though there are on/off plans to convert it into a luxury hotel. The ‘New York docks’ scenes were filmed in the vast Cardington Hangars, Cardington, a couple of miles southeast of Bedford in Bedfordshire, previously used for Christopher Nolan's trilogy Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises but the few practical locations were found in the UK’s northwest city port of Liverpool. The already enormous ‘New York City’ set of Production Designer Stuart Craig, encompassing almost an entire block, complete streetcar rails and even functioning man-hole covers, was extended with digital effects. But it is an exceedingly solid franchise-opener that builds a new world with enough bridges to the established Potterverse to keep the devoted happy.After being used for all eight of the Harry Potter blockbusters, Leavesden Studios, north of London in Hertfordshire, and home to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, was a natural to host for the first of the spin-off series which sees Newt Scamander ( Eddie Redmayne) arriving in 1926 ‘New York’ en-route to Arizona to release one of the ‘fantastic beasts’ into its natural habitat.Ĭlearly modern New York can no longer stand in for the city of the 1920s. Overall, what has emerged from Rowling’s sorting hat of ideas isn’t quite as fantastic as we all hoped. ![]() Come the closing credits, it’s Mary Lou’s burning eyes and the cowering, whipped body of her tormented acolyte, Credence ( We Need to Talk About Kevin (opens in new tab)’s Ezra Miller), that are the takeaways, not a destruction-porn finale that comes with even fewer consequences than Man of Steel (opens in new tab)’s skyscraper-slamming denouement. ![]() The Second Salemers, meanwhile, are as unnerving as anything you’ll find in cult movies like Martha Marcy May Marlene (opens in new tab) or The Sacrament (opens in new tab). Duly freighted with ideas and images to make the Dementors seem chirpy, its potent themes include prejudice, intolerance and repression, presented here with enough force to hit viewers straight between the eyes and leave a (zigzag) scar in these dark days of Brexit and Trump.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |