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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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That must have been almost surreal to be on that set. Would love to see photos.
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
Uh... thanks for sharing.
Did that model include a little 98% scale Thomas Krens storming around like a little megalomaniac?
Berlin's a big city. Why 98% ?
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.