Doubling as the institute was the monumental Otomi Ceremonial Center in Temoaya, Mexico, established in 1980 as a place for the Otomi indigenous people to continue cultural practises. On a more imposing note, Sanchez's lair dwelt below the Olympatec Meditation Institute, a televangelist cult and front for Sanchez's cocaine processing hub. With a helipad, guard tower and underwater-themed Poseidon Discotheque (capacity: 200), there was little need to embellish this white-stuccoed party palace. The beachfront house used in the film was Villa Arabesque, the extravagant Acapulco home which belonged to Enrico di Portanova, grandson of Texas oil tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen. Sanchez's cocaine factory, "Licence to Kill" (1989) - Drug lord Franz Sanchez liked to keep work and business separate with both a villa and the obligatory underground lair. Sets only became more ambitious once Bond was in space, where Lange, alongside Adam, flexed the same muscles he'd used to great effect in "2001: A Space Odyssey" in designing Drax's space station. The last set, constructed in Paris, utilized fiberglass for the rocks and a giant chandelier centerpiece, commissioned from Venetian artisans Venini Glass Works, according to Simmonds. (The UNESCO World Heritage Site also featured in "Star Wars.") Ambitious interiors included a vaulted control room coordinating Drax's Moonraker shuttles, a board room in the shuttle exhaust chamber, and a great reception chamber combining angular stone walls and natural rock, foliage and a waterfall. Exteriors for Drax's hideout in the Brazilian Amazon were filmed in Guatemala at Tikal, the ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
The production brought in former NASA illustrator Harry Lange as space art director, while Adam, in his final foray in the Bond series, went all out. With its curved form and four protruding limbs, it looked like a metallic sea creature or the fighting machines from "The War of the Worlds." A large-scale miniature was built for exterior shots, while interiors back at Pinewood featuring circular doors and corridors, with an underwater dining room made out like an Italian palazzo serving as an aesthetic counterpoint.ĭrax's jungle hideout, "Moonraker" (1979) - No Bond film has quite stretched audiences' credulity like "Moonraker." Hugo Drax, aerospace tycoon and aesthete Noah, plans global eugenics by wiping out billions with chemical agents while harboring the start of a "perfect" (read: good looking) civilization aboard his space station. Broccoli 007 Stage, at Pinewood Studios at a cost of $1.8 million.Īdam's imagination ran wilder still with Stromberg's floating retreat and laboratory Atlantis. The interior space required was so large Adam convinced Eon Productions to build a new, gigantic hangar, what became The Albert R.
Stromberg's supertanker Liparus hunted nuclear submarines and captured them in an enormous hanger. As you would expect, "The Spy Who Loved Me" spent a lot of time on or in water. Liparus, "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) - Shipping magnate Karl Stromberg had villainous plans straight out of a Saturday serial: cause World War III, destroy civilization and resurrect it in the form of his own underwater kingdom.
0 kommentar(er)
