For some people it may be Oz. For others it might be the coffee shop from Friends.
For me it’s Gotham City. In particular, the one from the TV series Gotham. I’m well aware that various New York City locations “stood in” for Gotham City...but boy, what locations! Gotham’s train station and City Hall were majestic, beautifully photogenic examples of architecture...as was the most familiar location, Gotham Police Headquarters. There were gorgeous theatre exteriors and tall, cathedral-like clock towers.
Even the run-down sections—bridge underpasses and lonely windswept docks—were wonderfully evocative of a city fallen on hard times. There’s even a very long one-way lane that James Gordon drives down, with a chain link fence that runs its entire length, that I could swear also turned up in the movie “Joker”.
That’s not even counting the Great Hall at Wayne Manor, which I assume was way too elaborate to be a studio set.
So yeah, I’d like to visit Gotham. And because it’s also a real life, standing location (as opposed to CG or an elaborate set like the 4077th M*A*S*H), it would actually be possible to visit it...if you knew where all those locations are. (Tour operators, there’s an idea to attract Batman fans!)
For me it’s Gotham City. In particular, the one from the TV series Gotham. I’m well aware that various New York City locations “stood in” for Gotham City...but boy, what locations! Gotham’s train station and City Hall were majestic, beautifully photogenic examples of architecture...as was the most familiar location, Gotham Police Headquarters. There were gorgeous theatre exteriors and tall, cathedral-like clock towers.
Even the run-down sections—bridge underpasses and lonely windswept docks—were wonderfully evocative of a city fallen on hard times. There’s even a very long one-way lane that James Gordon drives down, with a chain link fence that runs its entire length, that I could swear also turned up in the movie “Joker”.
That’s not even counting the Great Hall at Wayne Manor, which I assume was way too elaborate to be a studio set.
So yeah, I’d like to visit Gotham. And because it’s also a real life, standing location (as opposed to CG or an elaborate set like the 4077th M*A*S*H), it would actually be possible to visit it...if you knew where all those locations are. (Tour operators, there’s an idea to attract Batman fans!)
