Lmao they literally just used a real place in London as an apartment building on Coruscant in Blandor...

I'm about 90% sure they used this same location in the original Battlestar Galactica series. But then again, the fun thing about brutalism is that it all looks alike, so it could have been anywhere

have actual taste

hate star wars

yeah this checks out

People hate this style of architecture

Why? It looks cool af. And I ain't no lefty

How do you think they did the Naboo scenes in Phantom Menace anon?

Extremely. I wish more directors would use real assets instead of a fucking green screen.

Americans are really scared of learning what communism is so they cower in fear of anything even aesthetically evocative of communism.

Happy now, redditors?

yeah

It’s utterly dreadful and I don’t consider you human if you like it

in the US they've kind of gotten stuck in a uniformity loop.
all housing has to look a certain way for fear of affecting house prices, when actually variety is what makes cities nice to live in. a bit of brutalism really makes the nice buildings look nicer and the brutalist stuff look imposing.
(parts of central london definitely went overboard though)

Wait, is that Kusthistorische Museum in Vienna?

rofl the absolute HACK Lucas didn't even change the reliefs on the wall. That means the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is canon to the SW universe.

I don't hate it but I still think it's heavily context-dependent, if you built a brutalist city and have a fuckton of trees and shit around it'd be absolutely beautiful but what you actually get is just single buildings plopped down in the middle of unrelated architecture and since it's mostly in the Eastern Block most of shit around it will make it look depressing and opressive

It's the Royal Palace of Caserta in Naples, Italy

They used it in Westworld as well

Thanks, I'll add it to my list

Awesome, that looks good. I hope they keep it up and do more on-location shooting.

Oh shit I actually already had it written down

perhaps its subjective but I think a few brutalist buildings amongst a bunch of shit from random eras (and lots of green spaces) is the optimum, though its also what I'm used to so I'm biased. unified archectural styles is something the nazis wanted.

And?

-or

I recognized it from Westworld and some other show so it kind of broke immersion. Surely they could've found another fitting place that wasn't used in another big show recently.

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This. If only all their sets look like this no one would be crying.

America isn't as crushingly depressing as the UK so I'm not sure what you're complaining about

You can tell Andor is really good because people like this have to get super autistic to pretend anything is wrong with it. All the other shows you just clip their big fight scenes or chase scenes or Lizzo scenes.

it's another "zoomie discovers movies don't just magically create everything out of thin air and have an infinite budget to build their own fictional cities" episode

But blade runner was set in LA in 2019, you dumbass. All those places are in LA. Its not the same.

Set in a different city and pretends to be a skyscraper corporate headquarters. There, stupid motherfucker.

The architecture is exactly the same faggot. It doesn't matter.

If I ever met one of you architecture faggots in real life, I wouldn't do anything to you. I'd be kind to you. It's not your fault, and I don't think you enjoy being this way, so I wouldn't punish you for it.

I don't live in that country either. And I'm not complaining, just offering a sober prognosis of one reason you guys are so fucked.

You get that "Please proceed to your assigned domicile" in a computer voice vibe.

i'm actually some 'Concrete Britain'/new town/brutalist otaku. yeah they've lit it a certain way but this looks just like one of those post-war projects with lots of weird walkways and shit. purpose-built home of the future in the 1950s, run-down council estate in 2025.

if anything it looks old-fashioned, not a science fiction build of the future (magical distant past, whatever).

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They're fucked because they're afraid to learn from a failed ideology?

wtf the prequels are now even more based

Tony Gilroy drops Santiago Calatrava architecture into the Coruscant landscape even though it's completely at odds with the aesthetic of the planet. Whereas Lucas organically incorporated Calatrava-inspired architecture into the design of Utapau, where it reflects the unique qualities of the world.

What Gilroy does here doesn't even require any vision. He's just photographing the work of one of the most well-known living architects and jarringly inserting it into an environment others before him had to actually design.

He's not only unable to conceptualize environments that rise anywhere close to the standard set by Lucas, he actively degrades the few environments he inherits, because he doesn't understand what goes into it.

It feels like the prequel Coruscant exists as one of those distant backgrounds in a video game that you can never travel to.

went here last year

didnt realize it was naboo until i saw this pic

This is true even for the locations that are set directly in the midst of the cityscape. Even given the opportunity for window views, Gilroy's tendency is to fog or obscure the alien cityscape where Lucas always opts for expansive fantasy vistas.That Gilroy has to set these scenes on Coruscant seems like an inconvenience to him that he tries to find ways to work around. I don't know what else people would expect. What do you think it means when he says he never liked Star Wars? You think he hadn't seen it? It isn't his thing.

reminds me of when the goblin bank in Harry Potter had a Star of David on the floor.

you could argue it's Australia House in London and the six-sided star is actually an Australian symbol representing the original six states of Australia, but still. it's antisemitic that they DIDN'T remove it.

They always did that sort of thing. Tatooine in the first film is just Tunisia.

Why do the hallways of the Senate Building in Andor suddenly look like the interiors on Kamino? At most you'd expect the intrusion of Imperial motifs. The answer is that Gilroy is drawing on the aesthetic of the new exterior architecture, but the design language is confused.

You can see the palette of the Senate chamber itself seems to have been adjusted to match. It has a strangely bright, aquatic feel to it now. I'm not sure why the transition to Empire transformed the capitol into King Triton's court.

they were all rundown council estates by the 1960/70s at the latest lol

We were talking about buildings but thanks for rushing to prove my point.

Examining the establishing shots of Chandrila and Ghorman, we see they're Earth-like worlds but we have little indication of the culture of the society. Now compare to the establishing shots of Theed and Otoh Gunga. They're otherworldly and we instantly grasp the culture.

Even when we get to ground-level on the worlds in Andor it's hard to gain real insight into their cultures. We learn all about Chandrilan arranged marriage customs, and the people on Ghorman sound French and applaud weird, but can we deeply feel the unique soul of the peoples?

I'm sure the production designers made an effort to distinguish Chandrila from Ghorman architecturally, but right at this moment I cannot visualize the differences for the life of me. I don't think Ghorman strongly *feels* like anything apart from Chandrila.

It doesn't matter how high-quality the sets look if there isn't a keen aesthetic and anthropological vision like Lucas's to back them up. They look impressive in the moment but they easily fall out of memory. It's not something you can buy. Lucas was inimitably good at this.

The visual aesthetics of Naboo doesn't just shout wealth. It communicates artistic and intellectual refinement, and harmony with the natural world. It is perfectly reflective of Padme's inner qualities.

Some ignorant people say Naboo is "just Italy", since it was filmed in Italy. It's clearly not. If this was Andor, Naboo people would speak some gibberish Italian, wear some Italian clothes and eat Pizza. Because that's what space-France Ghorman in Andor was like: speak gibberish French, wear French beanies and trench coats, eat croissants and drink coffee in the street-cafes, and they make fashion clothes. And they are also literally French resistance during WW2, in case you didn't get!

actual photography looks better though.

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I'm not reading your blogpost

Yes, incel, you would always be crying. A scenario in which incels are not crying is inconceivable.

Lucas dropped a 1950s American diner into Coruscant.
All your points are invalid.

lack of repairs etc. not going to win any Anon Babble cred but i'd rather these be council housing, the modern equivalent is those horrible glass buildings that are private '''luxury student apartments''' or some shite (bedsits, basically).

i think as a country we're just fucked no matter what. but at least these did exist, for a while: they were family homes with decent rates, green spaces for the kids, little shops and so on. better than slums, and the various Victorian philanthropic/tenement type experiments never really took off.

it was a space spin on a real life thing. what should it have been? do they just not have any form of sit-down fast food places on the city planet? should it have been a modern McDonald's? a DoorDash delivery? i mean, this is the American Graffiti guy.

it was a space spin on a real life thing

Oh so like the Ghorm?

Turns out London has brutalist dystopia down

The culture war spares no victims. Leftbrains get concrete and glass and rightbrains get gothic cathedrals.

modern bongland looks like a dystopian scifi prison

Based off british prison

Name a single instance of right wingers building gothic cathedrals.

at least the emperor cared for his people. the leaders in England want every last Englishman tortured and dead

Imagine being this mentally ill

Your IQ is at least 20 points too high to post here.

No one obsessed with the culture war actually builds anything. Unfortunately they consume lots of things so we still have to order society around them.

embarrassing samefag

you're right its pure coincidence but its also one of those things where many people in the process MUST have noticed but they had enough plausible deniability that each and everyone just thought 'fuck the jews' and continued as planned which is rather based.

holy hypocrisy

No, it doesn't. Design language is confused, styles are entirely incompatible, and the picture look washed out, dull, sterile, soulless, lifeless. Thanks to awful teal filter that looks like it was shot at Bikini Bottom.

Disney knows its audience, those cucks will defend anything.

1950's American Diner was aesthetically the same style as the rest of Coruscant. Notice the round architecture, shape of the windows, material. It is indistinguishable from the rest of Coruscant, and thus fits. You are stupid as hell, like all Blandor shills, yet act like you know what you're talking about - you don't. You're a pseud.

in London

literally every fucking disney star wars was filmed in London because of tax breaks in UK

orange man is right about hollywood and knows they studios are running a hollywood scam with countries like UK or Canada

sterile, soulless, lifeless

Nah, Ghorman was literally space france with space French speaking gibberish French, wearing french trench coats, french beanies, designing fashion clothes and eating croissants in street cafes, while literal pigeons were flying around. There was no Star Wars spin on it. It was literally the French.

You were supposed to post something bad, but posted soul, that looks better than the entirety of Andor, though? I don't get it. Are you confused?

the coping and lying lmao

the shilling and seething lmao

Studios are running a scam of shooting movies in the places that don't steal as much money from them. We're going to solve this by stealing even more money from them if they try to avoid us stealing money from them.

there's a lottery in England for those who want to be locked away, so they can escape the insanity of the world outside.

prove it isn't true you stupid pathetic weak faggot

Why do chuds froth at the mouth over Andor? They focus in on the most minute stuff and throw a tantrum over it, while simultaneously brushing off all instances of Lucas doing it much, much worse. What is the actual thing that made them cry so hard?

mighty dud bolt dropping truth bombs left and right iykyk

obvious samefag pre-samefagging itself to try to stop others from pointing out his obvious samefaggery

Easily. There is not the slightest indication in any SW movies that "the emperor cared for his people". His entire career was one long con to gain absolute control. Every decision he made was to consolidate power for himself, not for the good of anyone else. He literally ruled through fear, torture, and genocide. He blew up Alderaan, a peaceful planet, just to make a point. He enslaved entire species.
In fact, he didn’t even care about his own followers. He used Vader as a pawn, manipulated Anakin with lies, then tried to replace him with Luke the moment he saw someone stronger. He treated his apprentices like disposable tools.
It is really weird how incels have started identifying with the emperor and make up lies to defend him.

George Lucas used a woman's leg razor as a "midichlorian detector" and a nozzle on a spray bottle to design General Grievous because he gave that little of a shit about his extended toy commercials. What the fuck is your point you absolute homo?

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Yeah but that didn't ruin chud's immersion because he has never been with a woman and therefore didn't recognize it

You are crying.

the probe ball just has a syringe with 'BRITISH MADE' on it.
i guess you can't really improve on a syringe, maybe a little laser tip? cauterise the wound on exit, something like that? i'm actually impressed with heroin/IV druggies who know how to do it all safely.

most movie sets are just wood walls in backlots. that's how filmmakers give that little of a shit about their movies

imagine being this braindead

It looks cool! You're a faggot!

NOOOOO YOU CAN’T SHOOT ON LOCATION NOOOO

You post this gif a lot these days