Bath in Films A Presentation by: Claudia Lohse Martin Orgill Oliver Held.
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Bath in Films
A Presentation by:
Claudia Lohse
Martin Orgill
Oliver Held
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Bath – a frequently used film set!
• Bath Film Office: more than 110 projects have been filmed in and around Bath since 1931
• Some of the outstanding buildings have been used as film sets particularly often:
• Royal Crescent
• Pump Room
• Assembly Rooms
• Circus
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The Pump Room (1)
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The Pump
Room (2)
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Pump Room with Bath Abbey
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Royal Crescent and Circus
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Royal Crescent
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Dyrham Park, near Bath
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Filmed (partially) in Bath:
• Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ealing Studios, starring Alec Guinness
• The Titfield Thunderbolt, Ealing Studios
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• Oliver!
Acclaimed adaptation of Dicken‘s “Oliver Twist”
6 Academy Awards
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• Prince Valiant
Cast:
James Mason
Robert Wagner
Janet Leigh
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Also:
• The Count of Monte Christo
• Doctor Dolittle
• The Canterbury Tales (Director: Pasolini)
• Miss Marple – Sleeping Murder
• Jack the Ripper
• House of Eliott
• Moll Flanders
• Emma
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• Chocolat
• Harry Potter 1 and 2
• Murder in Mind
• Stardust
• Vanity Fair
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Closer Look at:
• The Remains of the Day
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey
• Barry Lyndon
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The Remains of the Day • Filmed 1993
• Director James Ivory
• Producer: Ismail Merchant
• Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s novel
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Anthony Hopkins is Stevens, the Butler
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Emma Thompson is Miss Kenton, the Housekeeper
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Christopher Reeve is Congressman Lewis
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James Fox is Lord Darlington
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Hugh Grant is Darlington‘s nephew
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Plot:• set in the 1950 with extensive flashbacks to pre-
war England
• Lord Darlington sympathizes with Nazi Germany and organizes political conferences at Darlington Hall, his home
• Stevens is Butler at Darlington Hall and embodies blind loyalty and devotion towards his lordship
• Against the backdrop of devotion the somehow existent feelings between Stevens and Miss Kenton are repressed
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• Miss Kenton leaves Darlington Hall and marries someone else
• After the war Darlington Hall is taken over by an American Congressman, Mr Lewis
• Stevens, still in service, sets off to see Miss Kenton in Clevedon, hoping to set his “mistake” right
• Miss Kenton tells him about her marriage being broken up and again circumstances are against a relationship: Miss Kenton is going to be a grandmother and therefore refuses Stevens’ offer to return to Darlington Hall to her former position
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About the film:• Production budget: 6.5 million £
• Box office taking in the US: 20 million $
In the UK: 4 million GBP
• Movie Map (1998): Castles, stately homes, medieval manor houses etc.
• Howards End, The Madness of King George, Mrs Brown, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, Wilde, Elizabeth
• 250,000 times distributed via American travel agencies
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Dyrham Park, near Bath
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