How to Film a Gunfight in the Guggenheim: Build Your Own

Jake Dobkin

If you've seen any of the previews for the new Clive Owen banking conspiracy flick The International, you know that one of the key action sequences takes place in the Guggenheim, with our man Clive dodging bullets fired by the movie's dark mastermind Thomas Krens (kidding, and yes we know Krens is gone). Anyway, if you're wondering how they got access to film a gunfight in the Guggenheim—where security jumps down our throats if we so much as take a cell phone pic—well, they pretty much didn't.

Following a Monday night screening at Loews Lincoln Center, producer Richard Suckle revealed to the Observer that after a long two-year negotiation, the Guggenheim would only let them shoot for one lousy day. (One wonders how many days how many days Will Smith got for Men in Black.) But museum administrators did grant the production permission to build a four-story replica of the museum in Berlin. Constructed at 98 percent scale, that's actually where the glass-shattering action sequences were shot. So... now you're armed with an interesting factoid with which to irritate your date during the movie.

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By John Del Signore in Arts & Entertainment on February 10, 2009 6:02 PM

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Zyskandar A Jaimot

to DIRK-Original poem was designed/laid-out in an S swirling like the GUGGENHEIM. THIS OBVIOUSLY LINES TO THE RIGHT. THANKS FOR THE READ.

Knarf

Berlin's a big city. Why 98% ?

NannyState

Did that model include a little 98% scale Thomas Krens storming around like a little megalomaniac?

Zyskandar A Jaimot

No Standing - Tow Zone

Walking

round

and

round

up

and

around

in the

Guggenheim

Dizzy

almost

falling

Being

sucked

toward

the centre

Clutching

cement walls

Conscious

images

of Rineke Dijkstra’s

photographs

Poses from

world famous

Coney Island

Young boys\girls

stare at me

as I quickly look

away from

untroubled flesh

outfitted in

1950’s white

baggy underwear

Hints and small

suggestive bulges

of verboten

sexuality

Pulling

me

downward

ever

downward