Films that Inspire TravelWhat movie inspired you to visit the destination where it was set?
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Posted: Nov 30, 06 12:30pm BudgetTravelOnline.com, just wrote a great article, "The 25 Movies That Literally Moved Us" that gives step-by-step instructions for visiting the places we've seen in our favorite films. This is their list:
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Posted: Nov 30, 06 1:55pm
If Waking Ned Devine doesn't inspire you to visit Ireland, nothing will.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 12:41pm
Especially if your father and brother are ED Devine
Marty
Posted: Nov 30, 06 2:54pm
The 60's classic Blow Up led me to London after seeing it as a 17 year old.
Posted: Dec 1, 06 12:52pm
Blow Up did it for me, too. Except, my dream destinations became Vanessa Redgrave and Veruschka. Some years later, after I had moved (temporarily) to London, I actually did shake hands with Ms. Redgrave, after she addressed an outdoor political rally in Trafalgar Square. I still marvel at what an astonishing actress she became. Not knowledge of Veruschka. And as for London? Vastly improved since those days, IMHO.
Posted: Dec 1, 06 1:05pm
I saw A Bout de Souffle by Jean-Luc Goddard when I was in college about ten years after it was made. I thought Jean-Paul Belmondo was beyond cool and I decided that Paris must be the hippest place on earth. Lots had happened in Paris since 1960, when the film was made, to confirm my thought.
But what really got me started on Paris was a movie called Le Ballon Rouge. I saw it when I was about five or six. It was about a Parisian kid with a magic balloon. Until then, all I knew was Disney. Never forgot the Red Balloon.
Posted: Dec 1, 06 2:02pm
So as a young man, I moved to Paris and lived there for three years.
Posted: Dec 2, 06 10:12am
Great films make me hungry. So here's my food/travel/film multimedia mashup:
Fallen Angel, Wong Kar Wai
If you crave the cramped streets of Hong Kong and Won Ton Mein, checkout out any of Wong Kar Wai's films. My favorite is Fallen Angel.
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/fallen_angels.htm
The Scent of Green Papaya, Anh Hung Tran
Just thinking about this film makes me want some Pho.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107617/
Battle Royale
Ok, this film doesn't make you want to go to Japan. But it does make you happy to be alive! After watching this film, sit down with a steamy bowl of Kyushu Ramen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale
Posted: Dec 2, 06 7:30pm
cash, then how can you forget to mention Eat Drink Man Woman and Taiwan... I'm getting hungry just thinking about all that food....
Posted: Dec 4, 06 6:36pm
Well cash, if we're going gastronomy and travel, you have to include Babette's Feast (Denmark) and Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico).
Posted: Jul 20, 07 2:25pm
Dude, check out Eating Raoul.
Posted: Aug 8, 07 11:14am
We loves us some "Battle Royale".
Japanese schoolgirls with GUNS.
"Battle Royale 2", um, not so much.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 5:25pm
Oooh... food porn, my favorite! Try "Big Night" and fighting off cravings for Italian food.
Posted: Apr 7, 08 11:27am
Eating Raul is a classic. Especially the hot tub scene. Well, the whole movie.
Posted: Dec 5, 06 9:16am
Ever since I saw Hideous Kinky I've been dying to go to Morocco.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 4:30pm
I both loved, and was terrified of Morocco. More than anything, I love being able to tell people that I've been to "the Kasbah" . . . it just sounds so cool. It is really beautiful there. Make the trip if you can!
Posted: Dec 5, 06 3:02pm
Moonstruck was one movie that sold NYC to me
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is just without a place
Posted: Dec 7, 06 4:40pm
I went to LA after seeing Repo Man.
Posted: Dec 9, 06 9:07pm
I forgot Indochine which made me want to go to Vietnam
Posted: Dec 13, 06 12:22pm
I saw "The English Patient" and it inspired me to travel ... out of the theatre fast!
Posted: Dec 13, 06 2:42pm
Oh my gosh, me too! I loved Indochine... my husband and I went there for our honeymoon. And luckily, so many of the historic French buildings in Hanoi are still there to see.
Posted: Jan 16, 07 10:51pm
I grew up in Africa. When I first saw Out of Africa, I could smell the grass and the scents of Africa. Nowhere in Africa is the same today as it was in the movie, but that movie is so powerfully evocative for me that, every time I watch it, I want to go back there just one more time.
Posted: Jun 5, 07 4:19pm
Africa's an awfully big place to be making such sweeping generalizations. The Africa I grew up in was nothing like anything I saw in Out of Africa.
Posted: Apr 13, 07 6:31pm
I alway wanted to go to New Zealand, but after seeing "Lord of the Rings," I counted up my frequent tlyer miles and booked tickets 11 months in advance for me and my family.
The scenery (of real landscapes) is every bit as spectacular as depicted in the movie.
Posted: Jun 19, 07 12:00pm
The Motorcycle Diaries may not have made me buy a stereotypical Che Guevara T-shirt, but it sure made we want to tour some of the highlands of South America.
Posted: Jul 18, 07 5:41pm
A Little Romance (a preteen Diane Lane, Laurence Olivier) led me to Venice. And to the Bridge of Sighs.
Posted: Apr 18, 08 10:36pm
Yeah, the cinematography in Motorcycle Diaries motivated me before I went to Argentina and across the Andes (by bus, not motorcycle) to Chile. Unforgettable scenery in person, too.
Posted: Jul 19, 07 12:45pm
Chocolat (the film from 1988, not the film from 2000 with Juliette Binoche) - Cameroon
Posted: Jul 20, 07 6:16pm
Island in the Stream inspired me to buy a ticket & head for Provincials in the Turks & Caicos. Truly the end of the earth. One hotel/resturant/bar (The Ibis)with a number of typical Nere-de-wells, has beens & never wases (Sic). Partied for 3 weeks, sailing, drinking, fishing, eating even taking a private plane to Cap Haitian on Haiti
Now it;s over run by the wealthy with high priced condos, a Club Med & lots of Yachts. But I experienced it like Hemingway did!
Posted: Aug 8, 07 5:01pm
cheesy but true...Rob Roy and Braveheart got me to Scotland. The men in kilts were few and far between but the ones I saw made me melt!
p.s. all guys look good in kilts. full stop.
Posted: Nov 6, 07 8:01am
All the James Bond movies make me think about travel.
I lived the movie Lost In Translation. I wasn't an actor but found my experience very similar.
Posted: Nov 6, 07 8:47am
Under the Tuscan Sun...a movie about second chances, risk-taking & gorgeous Italian scenery...Tuscany is absolutely breathtaking.
Posted: Nov 7, 07 8:09am
After watching Lord of the Rings I would love to go to New Zealand even though a lot of the scenery is computer generated.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 1:02pm
The Conversation, San Francisco
Bullitt, San Francisco
Star Wars, Tatooine
2001 A Space Odyssey, Outer Space
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:05pm
Great thread Lets keep it going.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:20pm
Going to Cambodia made me want to see "The Killing Fields". So kind of a reverse with that one.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 5:45pm
Under the Tuscan Sun (the book and the movie) made me want to travel to Tuscany--which we did in May 2007. It was a fabulous experience and we hope to go back.
Lord of the Rings made me long to visit New Zealand and that is a trip I am saving for.
Posted: Jan 18, 08 6:50pm
I hadn't even seen your post prior to writing mine . . . kind of spooky that we were thinking the same thing . . . good thing we're 'friends'!!!! ;0)
Ahhhh, Italia . . . bella paese . . .
Posted: Jan 18, 08 6:08pm
This didn't 'inspire' travel, necessarily, but I enjoyed "Under The Tuscan Sun" MUCH more after having been to Tuscany, and it makes me literally YEARN to go back. I watch it every time I find myself missing Italy (which is often!).
Posted: Jan 18, 08 6:54pm
you know what they say about great minds or something like that . . .
Yes, Italia. It is so beautiful.
Ciao, bella
Posted: Jan 18, 08 7:16pm
Year of Living Dangerously made me want to do a lot of things, but they did not include traveling to Indonesia...
Posted: Feb 23, 08 8:45am
Literally 1000's of folks have come to Zihuatanejo on Mexico's West Coast due to the Film The Shankshaw Redemption who's main character dreams of escaping to it. In the Final scene it shows him walking on the beach there. Just one thing wrong IT AIN'T Zihuatanejo! For whatever reason they filmed that scene On Virgin Gordo in The British West Virgins.
I have been threaten with death on more than one occasion when I informed a new visitor in Zihua about that fact! LOL
Posted: Apr 8, 08 1:58am
Tourists flock to a little village in Scotland, near where I was born, as a result of Local Hero.
They didn't realise that the most famous red phone box was a film prop. So many were disappointed that the local innkeepers twisted British Telecom's arm to install a real phone box.
Even BT were astonished when they discovered the new phone box broke all records for a public phone box being used! All the overseas visitors phoned home shouting "You'll never guess where I am?" whilst they get their picture taken!
The village and harbour scenes were filmed there, but the beach where the beachcomber lived was filmed 200 miles away on the west coast of Scotland!
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/
On that link there is a little red mark on the map on the left hand side to show the location of the page being viewed. In the narrative there is a reference to Arisaig. If you click on the Arisaig link (beach) it will take you to another page. Again, look at the little red mark and notice the difference in location.
Posted: Apr 7, 08 11:25am
"Lawrence of Arabia" -- ah, to Aqaba and other parts of the Middle East.
Posted: Apr 18, 08 11:35pm
Dante's Inferno.
Posted: Apr 19, 08 12:52am
Blue Hawaii...........Kauai, Hawaii
Only You...............Venice, Italy
The Birds..............Bodega Bay, CA
French Kiss...........France
Movies that kept me from going: Fiddler on the Roof