Deputy Dog made a ‘top 5 of deserted city scenes’ in film and I’m voting that for best blog feature of the last two months, at least.
He puts it like this:
‘There’s a relatively easy way to give the audience a chill during a film: slip in a shot of a deserted city centre, a city centre that’s notoriously busy in real-life, the scene preferably culminating in the camera panning out to prove the crew didn’t just manage to clear 10ft of road for 5 seconds.’
Here are Deputy Dog’s 5 favourite goosebump inducing ‘empty’ scenes:
5. Philadelphia – Twelve Monkeys, 1995 (imdb)
4. Los Angeles – Omega Man, 1971 (imdb)
3. Madrid – Abre Los Ojos, 1997 (imdb)
2. Manhattan – Vanilla Sky, 2001 (imdb)
1. London – 28 Days Later, 2002 (imdb)
I’m digging deserted cities, can’t help it. Look at emich‘s photos we used for the latest vic&lloyd podcast (check one, check two), it’s that vibe in there, right? Empty roads, silent streets, loving it!
Anybody out there that knows more of this type of things/scenes/photos/etc.?
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Dec 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
the deserted New York-scene in ‘I Am Legend’ is crazy too…
But that’s basically the only thing that’s really dope in that movie.
Dec 28th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Actually, the ‘Omega Man’ scene above is from a previous film based on the book ‘I Am Legend’ (the one with w.smith that’s in cinemas now, is the third one already)
Haven’t seen any of them yet though, think I’ll read the book, lol
Dec 29th, 2007 at 4:40 am
What about the old Twilight Zone episode with the old man who goes into the safe to read on his lunch break, falls asleep, and wakes up alone after a nuclear attack. Am I thinking right?
Dec 30th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Hmm, haven’t seen that yet, is there footage online? or any screenshots or photos? Sounds promising, the twilight, the zone, gotta love that
there’s also the deserted city planet in the new Battlestar Galactica, but I couldn’t find any footage online, not of that particular place.