The street where ‘Brooklyn Antiques’ provides the front for a secret lab, is in the Northern Quarter of Manchester. By now, you won’t be fooled by the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, which is added digitally. Having successfully demonstrated his courage, Steve is whisked off to a mysterious address in ‘Brooklyn’.
The scene of Steve retrieving the flag from its pole was added later, filmed in Santa Clarita north of Los Angeles in California. Conveniently backing onto Pinewood Studios, the forest has seen plenty of screen service over the years, as the woods of ‘Transylvania’ in countless Hammer films, to the ‘Swiss’ car chase in Goldfinger.įor a few moments, we are actually in the USA.
‘Camp Lehigh’, the army training camp, is Black Park, at Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. The design, with its huge, hollow globe, is clearly based on the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair site in Flushing Meadow – which you can see as the alien saucer park in the original Men In Black. It’s back to green screen technology for the spectacular ‘New York’ Exposition, where Howard Stark ( Dominic Cooper) demonstrates the hovering car and Steve Rogers finally succeeds, with the help of Dr Erskine ( Stanley Tucci), in enlisting. The ensuing back-alley punch-up was filmed on the Pinewood Studio backlot. It’s barely glimpsed, but we’ll see more of its red and gilt grandeur later. The big outdoor scenes of arctic wastes and rugged mountains were filmed using impressive green screen techniques in the studio, while London, Manchester and Liverpool all stood in for ‘Brooklyn’.įor instance, the cinema where disturbingly skinny Steve Rogers ( Chris Evans) confronts a loudmouth during the patriotic newsreel, is the famous Hackney Empire theatre in East London.
The production seems wilfully perverse – the most patriotically-named All-American Stars’n’stripes hero, filmed almost entirely in the UK, using state-of-the-art technology to convince us its buff star is a seven stone weakling.
0 kommentar(er)
