Gambling and crime in the Bellagio Towers Las Vegas. OCEAN'S ELEVEN (pretend play) Steven Soderbergh, 2001, USA.
A film with a cast of five star and decorated to match: the Bellagio in Las Vegas. There was a first film, directed by Lewis Milestone, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., but, as usual, there was then a remake: the Steven Soderbergh, which featured George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and as a theater of operations, the luxurious Bellagio.
Danny Ocean's men attack simultaneously MGM Mirage and Las Vegas, but the Bellagio is starring the film, since the hotel is owned rival of the Ocean, played by Andy Garcia, a perfect target.
The Bellagio was a star of the big screen at birth. In the tradition of Las Vegas, grew out of the ground in a blink of an eye; in 1988 prevailed as an icon of the casino capital, and less than three years later was chosen by Steven Soderbergh as the main set for the shoot. In the film offers a complete tour of the casino and hotel, from the door of the car park, through the rooms and executive offices. The latter are the only ones that can not be visited today in this complex since been equipped with a spa and an art gallery.
Intrigue and espionage in the Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakech. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO Alfred Hitchcock, 1956, USA.
The touch of history's most famous film cymbal gave the starting signal for a thrilling espionage intrigue in La Mamounia, Marrakech's most famous hotel. Alfred Hitchcock had already made another version of this film 20 years earlier, but in the remake of the fifties decided to move the action from Switzerland to Morocco.
The story is the same: the adventure of an American family who stumbles unwittingly with an intrigue at the hotel La Mamounia. Since then, the streets of Marrakech will be the decorated dreamed of Arabian nights a disturbing nest of spies. Even the idyllic setting of the same restaurant, with bright oriental arabesques, disturbing result.
In the historical heart of Marrakech, La Mamounia has the freshness of a garden bicentennial, since 2009, of a decoration signed by Jacques Garcia melting Hispano culture and modernity. The hotel, with five stars today, was already since its creation must for any distinguished visitor accommodation. Today there are many other luxury hotels in Marrakech, but none can, as La Mamounia, boast of having housed within its walls to Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Jacques Brel or Orson Welles.
Luxury and global conspiracies at the Ritz in Paris. The Da Vinci Code Ron Howard, 2006, USA.
Teachers College Harvard perceive some diets that allow them to stay at the Ritz when they go to Paris to derail global conspiracies. That at least is the opinion of Dan Brown, in his international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, hosts its protagonist Robert Langdon in room 512 of this most luxurious Parisian hotel. Ron Howard, when he adapted the film, confirmed. However, the team was filming Hollywood too numerous to fit on the 512, even in a more spacious suite: a great evil ...
To solve the problem, the Ritz authorized the loan of a hundred objects in the room to play in the London studios. From the curtains to the taps, everything was disassembled, issued, filmed and reassembled in less than two months. Things movie ...
The hotel created by César Ritz in 1898 in the place Vendôme soon entered the legend of Paris, sparkling and refined luxury while. There was a commotion in 2012 when it was announced that the firm was closing for a complete renovation, resulting in the dismissal of its 470 employees. They were 27 months of works, with the declared aim of the five-star pasarde the label recently instituted Palace goal.
Hotel Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Brian De Palma's Scarface, 1983, USA.
The American dream and the simple logic sums Al Pacino at the edge of the pool at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach: "In this country, first you have to break bread; once you have the dough, you have the power. Once you have the power, you have aunts. "Inspired by the eponymous 1932 film, which chronicled the upstroke of an Italian-American criminal-inspired turn in the figure of Al Capone, then called scarface- to the top of the underworld of Chicago in full ban, Scarface of the decade 1980 changes the liquor traffic in Chicago by cocaine in Miami. From the initial killing with chainsaw to the symphony of end guns, Tony Montana's career, written by Oliver Stone, is a success story written in blood.
The Fontainebleau is recognizable by its concave facade most famous building in Miami Beach that also appears at the beginning of Goldfinger in The Bodyguard, and more recently, in an episode of The Sopranos. If the City of Miami De Palma refused permission to shoot in the streets for fear that the subject of the film damage his reputation, was not the case of the hotel that symbolizes luxury and ambition of women from Scarface.
A Pink Panther at the Gstaad Palace Hotel. THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER Blake Edwards, 1975, UK / USA.
More than 10 years after his last interpretation of the role that made him famous, Peter Sellers recovered raincoat Inspector Clouseau, he resumed his beautiful French accent and went back to the quest for the fabulous pink diamond, a pretext for a series of gags hilarious.
The Palace hotel, which faithfully frequented Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews while on vacation in Gstaad, did not pray to accommodate the new adventures of Jacques Clouseau, who thanked him turn some of the cult scenes in the series, from the "Do you have a rem?" in reception until parrot hunting with vacuum cleaner, pure moment of comedy worthy of the best hours of silent films.
Gstaad, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, normally frequented by a clientele of high-flying, from Madonna to Roman Polanski; its most prestigious hotel operator is required to keep up, and it is, as the Palace hotel is perched on a hill overlooking the city. The Palace has retained after running its old-world charm, combined with a high-end version of the Swiss chalet, with views over the Alps. Confessed by the receptionist: many customers always reach the hotel asking if there is a free "rem" ...
Lost in the Park Hyatt Tokyo Tower. LOST IN TRANSLATION by Sofia Coppola, 2002, USA / Japan.
Lost Soul mate in Tokyo looking wistfully. Needless to place ads; lost between the Japanese language and the noisy crowd of Tokyo souls agree the bar so high that dominates the city, so high that he also seems isolated in the megalopolis. "Poetry is what gets lost in translation," wrote the American poet Robert Frost. Bill Murray, a cut far defeated by Buster Keaton role jet lag, and Scarlett Johansson in a leading role that really launched his career, build their complicity in the screen with the unsaid, to a final murmur only they know.
The Hyatt Tokyo hotel occupies the top 14 floors of the 52 available to the Shinjuku Park Tower in the business district of the city. The luxurious hotel features a naturally fine dining restaurant, a pool and a gym, all visible in the film. Its great attraction, however, remains its views over Tokyo, extending to Mount Fuji when the weather is clear.
Art Hotel Le Palais Prague. I Served the King of England by Jiří Menzel, 2006, Czech Republic.
Less known in Europe than Milan Kundera, but more popular than the latter in his home country, Bohumil Hrabal is an essential figure of Czech literature, heir to a tradition that combined with virulent criticism acerbic wit. The director Jiří Menzel, who had already adopted Hrabal -recibió even the Oscar for best foreign film in 1967 by Trains closely vigilados- brought to the screen and delicious picaresque novel I Served the King of England and the adventures of his apprentice hospitality at the hotel Le Palais resplendent Prague. Perfect frame rise and fall of political Prague before World War II, all are beautiful young people dancing on the tables and camels parked in the driveway.
Set in a building from the late nineteenth century listed historical monument and converted into a hotel since 2002, Le Palais is one of the jewels of the Belle Époque architecture in Prague. It is located in the quiet residential district of Vinohrady, highly appreciated by foreign residents, and includes a restaurant, Le Papillon. Another film locations is the coffee of the town hall, with a perfectly preserved Art Nouveau decor.
These recommendations and other 493 are part of the book 500 ways to travel from the sofa Lonely Planet recently published in Spanish by GeoPlaneta.
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