Writing

Pirates of the Carribbean Set Visit

A Day at Pinewood Studios with Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp

I am at Pinewood Studios, London. On a soundstage to be more specific. As we approach the center of stage B, we see a wooden box-like structure built on steel frames. We walk up stairs onto a patio area and see an entrance surrounded by skulls and bones. The railing, made of skeleton backbones and […]

The Prater

An Imperial Pleasure for the Common Man

It was high atop a deserted fairground when American pulp writer Holly Martins alias Joseph Cotton finally encountered his old school friend Harry Lime alias Orson Welles in the 1949 film “The Third Man”. The great Ferris-wheel showdown is one of the most famous sequences in the Vienna set film noir by “Gone with the […]

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