Watch An Architecture Expert Weigh In On Iconic Movie Buildings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- In Vulture’s video series, Expert Witness, we ask scientists, historians, and other professionals to give Hollywood movies a good old-fashioned fact-check.
Buildings in movies can play a multitude of roles. They can be world-building backdrops, as in sci-fi epics like Blade Runner or Metropolis, or they can be expressions of character, like in The Sopranos or any Wes Anderson flick. As with many aspects of film, these details can often go unnoticed. So we turned to Kate Wagner, architecture and culture writer, and author of the viral blog McMansion Hell, to break down some iconic buildings in film and television.
you cut out so much
we're fans of her rambling
Ridley Scott knows how to create a world.
Couldn't agree more with her 'ending thoughts' concerning physical props vs CGI and how they come across on screen.
I think she's really right about architecture being too CGI'ed. I believe modern architects make buildings that look better in their computer than in real life. When you design a house in a computer you can see the design, but you can't see the materials, the light, and the surroundings. That's why I believe many modern buildings look fake and out of place. It's like reality is a poor copy of the virtual prototype, while it should be the opposite. A house is something to live in, not to look at through a computer screen. While designing a house the first thought should be how it would be actually walking in that space.
How about the Tanners’ house from “Full House” that obviously has no third floor or attic according to the establishing shots, yet Jesse and Becky allegedly live up in the third-floor attic.
Well Saturday Night Live, House Hunters had a cat on the roof of an invisible house! 😃 It was mystifying, and I just loved it! I remember that about Full House. I always thought, 🤔 It's just like the parallel worlds in the nes Game Deadly Towers. Really awesome Jesse and Becky I wish my house had parallel worlds so I could escape chores. I used to hide up in the tree in the junior high school yard and watch my sister clean house. I could tell she was vacuuming and straightening out the quilt for the couch. She would get me to confess that I could see her working and she got me back by not helping me get the games I wanted. Ya, I got the message.
Id love to hear thoughts on stark tower
Make an updated version of this video and talk about "Parasite".
Excellent. I could watch a lot more of this, with more examples and details would be good. A lot of architecture is just a big wank, IMHO. It's all about being impressive and not about how it works for the people who use it.
OH WOW. You should read her blog, McMansion Hell. Google it. You'll love it.
The sopranos house is one of the defining characteristics of the misery
Im a little disappointed. Tell me why minas tirith isnt possible. We know it doesnt exist
Casper L well, you’re right about how it might be disappointing being told that it can’t exist. But the reason it can’t is as far as I know, the size of the structures are way too big for people to build at that period of time. The walls and structures that do not contain any housing compartments are also very disproportionate to places that do. So you end up with more vertical-unusable space compared to places that people can actually use. Another reason is that the city, despite fact that it is far away from neighboring cities, cannot sustain itself. With no farmland at all, it is unrealistic at how people eat or drink.
It's very much possible. From our modern (non-fantasy-world) perspective it would be silly to build it, and from the perspective of any good architect, it would seem silly, and nightmarishly impractical to build, use and maintain. However, Peter Jackson and his crew actually did a very good job portraying it as described by Tolkien. Scrappy Studios (below) seems not to have read the books, where Tolkien had the luxury of time to describe the farmlands and the nation of Gondor better than Jackson could in the movies. So both the movies and the books had a reasonable level of internal consistency in support of the plausible existence of Minas Tirith, but in real life such a city is unlikely to ever be built, mostly for reasons related to economics.
I would have loved for her to talk ONLY about Minas Tirith, because it is a"middle earth" version of McMasion design. BIG, BIG BIG, and USEESS, USELESS, USELESS
Whilst i am not an architect, that building would have a purpose; to deter attack by the sheer look of it, and to defend against an attack due to the many levels overlooking the previous one. It is a stronghold that was designed for a different purpose than one of our real-world cities.
I don't particularly like LOTR but that mountain city was one of the things that had an actual reason to be the way it is.
This is more comparable to a castle than a mansion or skyscraper.
I was looking for videos on serial killers living with taxidermied corpses and TH-cam send me here… on the other hand, that sofa person’s airhead babbling fits t least half of the intended search…
" Architecture expert?" U mean an ARCHITECT?? Lmaoo
Doesn't mean architect
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Whatever can be said about her credentials or title, she markets herself as an expert in architecture. In reading her website, I learned more about architecture in 1 hour than I did in my whole life. While she may work as an architect (I don't know for sure), she is definitely working as something of an educator in architecture for lay people.
So I looked into her stuff and she is definitely not an architect or working with some. I visited her blog and all I really noticed were snarky remarks on buildings, houses, furniture, etc; she seems to understand architecture at a basic level whereas an architect or people studying architecture would understand at a deeper level. I do respect and like that she does bring light to the things architects do in a fun and easy to understand way but then again it’s just the same things architects have been preaching for years but just in a dumbed down way for the masses. What she is saying here is literally like an inexperienced food critic who has never cooked in their life giving successful chefs advice in how to cook better, some of the information might be useful but overall meaningless.
@@eugenedebs3281 Yeah, her site really sucks. Just snarky judgement against anyone who is living differently than her. But good for her for turning being a snaky, judgmental, condescending millennial into a career.
Oh love it. Star wars. Where do you get that in movies now.
Bringing truth to me and I love it.
reminder that Monica's apartment is her grandmother's and not to her preferred taste level.
Nice video, but they couldn’t get Art Vandeleigh?
She doesn't seem like an Architectural expert.
Cyberpunk and Vaporwave are so different on so many levels. They've originated SEVERAL decades apart and (60's-70's and mid 2000's), to say the least, and don't even share forms of art in which they're "popular". To say that Blade Runner is Vaporwave is like stating that "Take the A train" is Electro-Swing
I understand she's an arquitecture critic, and as other critics (food, movies, etc) doesn't necessary means she needs to be an arquitect. But, I'd rather watch an arquitect (preferably accompanied by an engineer) analizing iconic movie buildings.
wtf is an "arquitect"?
@@jamma246 It's been spelled many times by different people in the comments and the title!
jamma246 In Spanish it is called “arquitectura”.
@@jamma246 hahaha. You're right, sometimes I mix some of my spanish with english.
She, like, really, like, could, you know, like, talk, and stuff.
There is nothing of value in these four and a half minutes. She doesn't actually talk about any architectural principles, nor does she talk about why designers and directors chose to use the architecture they did in their films.
How can one woman be so pretentious and condescending?
you are so sensitive, you shouldn't be so easily offended by things that nothing to do with you
Ted
When you hire a millennial hipster who, like, uses big words or whatever and then like, you realize she’s like literally nothing more than like, just a tone of voice. I guess.
Could she possibly have Aspergers?
I think she is awesome, and honestly would love the chance to meet her
When you're a valley girl whose words are almost nothing more than filler, and nobody understands what the fuck you're saying...
Like, totes. I'm interested in architecture (not an expert by any means) but this was painful to watch.
she does have aspergers. she said so herself. i like her.
Not an architecture expert, just an enthusiastic amateur.
She's clueless
She look's like a creature from Sesame Street
A critic of someone else's work is like a cockroach determining a bread crumb is tasteful.
I understand the movie isn't great or the souffle isn't high enough. But the people that made these are the creators. Your opinion is an inflection of self indulgance rather than doing that thing better.
Your opinion of critics is likewise an inflection of self indulgence as you'd put it, as I do not see this critique (and critiques can likewise be creations in their own right) going into more detail than a normal critic in their respective field would.
I can't wait for the Trump era to be over. Look at this person: her haircut, her language, her hand gestures, her lingo, her depth -- take me awaaaay
miranda c I can’t tell if your joking or if you actually want everyone to be this ugly and whiny
wait what does trump have to do with this classic tumblrina look?