They constructed their very own Graceland in Australia, with the inside altering barely through the years throughout the course of the movie. One room that posed a selected problem was Elvis’s bed room, as no guests are allowed in and there aren’t any pictures of it. “It’s on the request of the household that nobody visits that bed room. It was the place he died and it was his interior sanctum,” says Murphy. Nonetheless, the Presley household made an exception for director Baz Luhrmann, who was allowed to see the room with out taking any footage. “He informed us how he noticed it, and Baz could be very descriptive, very eloquent, and he additionally speaks in a manner that you just perceive when it comes to design. He talked concerning the expertise within the ’70s room and the way there have been intercoms and radios and stereo programs constructed into his bedside desk, and TVs constructed into the ceiling, and the textures. He described all of that to us, and we set to work designing one thing based mostly on a verbal description,” says Murphy.
Babylon
nominees: Manufacturing designer Florencia Martin and set decorator Anthony Carlino
Foremost filming places: Historic mansions and houses all through California, together with Shea Fort, Fort Inexperienced, Hummingbird Ranch, Busby Berkley’s former Beaux Arts Mansion, the Wattles Mansion, and extra; Nineteen Twenties theaters together with The United Artists Theater on the Ace Resort Los Angeles, The Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, and The Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro, California; and Paramount studios
Whole manufacturing funds: $80 million
At three hours and 9 minutes, this story of extra and debauchery in Nineteen Twenties Hollywood is full of lovely examples of interval structure. Through the silent film period, Los Angeles was simply growing and had not one of the sq. trendy glass homes of as we speak. These early pioneers within the film trade “constructed Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival and Spanish Revival as a result of they had been simply attempting to recreate the issues that they thought had been nice and exquisite,” says Martin.
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