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I have what may seem to be a stupid question, but...

posted 14 years ago by TheSolarSailor
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I just watched The Green Hornet for the first time on Syfy yesterday, seeing about the last ten episodes in the series. I was just wondering about The Green Hornet's resident/hideout. Where is this located, exactly? A mansion, a penthouse, where? D.A. Scanlon is always shown coming down the hidden elevator to the den. Down from where? The patio seems to be easily accessed by everyone, including villains, which implies that this is a house and not a penthouse. Yet, we see the wall lift up and the Black Beauty exit through the patio area, and then emerge through a secret door in the alley of the city itself. I am puzzled by how all of that fits together. Where does Britt live and how is it connected to the city secret passage???

Again, I know that seems like a silly thing to wonder about, but I thought that maybe earlier episodes explain all of this better and I was just catching the latter half of the series where it is not important enough to go over again.

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[–] tbrittreid 14 years ago

In a few early episodes two stock sequences are shown in their respective entirities, then cut down as the run played out. First, Scanlon can be seen parking his car on a city street, walking into the same alley that the Beauty uses (the candy kisses billboard that opens for the car can be seen in the background), and pushing a board on a "boarded up" doorway aside to enter the building. After this, the fireplace in Reid's study rises and Scanlon rides a moving platform with a couple of steps into view from behind it. There is a slight downward angle to its movement, but only slight; it doesn't seem to me to be coming from a genuinely higher level. In the sequence involving getting and leaving in the Beauty, we see it drive across Reid's patio before emerging into the alley. All of this indicates a ground level for the residence, confirmed by the entrance of the supposed extraterrestrials in "Invasion...." I'd say it's a townhouse, Reid occupying the entire building.

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[–] TheSolarSailor 14 years ago

Thanks for your information...that is quite helpful. So, the "elevator" may be more of a platform to carry a person from the secret entrance to the den? That would make better sense. Also, other villains than just the "aliens" were seen entering through the patio area, as well as good guy Axford himself...so I pretty much ruled out a penthouse. Still, the candy kisses billboard/secret entrance made it somewhat confusing to me. I have always been interested in the layouts of homes or hideouts, so I was really trying to piece this one together. It's a pretty cool headquarters, I just wanted to know a bit more about it. We'll go with it being a townhouse until something more concrete comes along! Thanks again for responding.

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[–] TheSolarSailor 14 years ago

There is a slight downward angle to its movement, but only slight; it doesn't seem to me to be coming from a genuinely higher level >>> Having watched these scenes several times now in the early episodes, there does indeed seem to be second level that Scanlon is coming down from...making the departure of the Black Beauty even more puzzling. Why? Because Scanlon enters from the exact same alley that the Black Beauty emerges from, yet Scanlon is seen coming down an elevator platform behind Reid's fireplace, suggesting that Reid's den is at a point lower than the alley. The Black Beauty leaves from this same level, the patio just outside of Reid's den, and is seen coming DOWN a ramp and out the exit to the alleyway where Scanlon's descent began to start with. The layout of Reid's home base makes no sense.

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[–] tbrittreid 14 years ago

In "Hornet, Save Thyself" when Britt realizes that the best lawyers even his money can hire won't be able to break the frame he's in, he escapes from a surprisingly close-minded Scanlon via the fireplace, then is suddenly inside the Black Beauty. I'll have to check my video to see just where she is at that point, but I'm certain she hasn't yet reached the alley. I'm planning to double-check the angle of the platform's movement anyway.

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[–] TheSolarSailor 14 years ago

The whole fireplace rig is the goof up in the set design, I believe. I mean, we all know that the Black Beauty is on the same level as the den and the patio. The only ramp I seem to have noticed was in the path leading to the candy kisses sign. When the secret door opens, it appears that the Black Beauty is coming down a ramp, down from the level of the patio and garage area that it just left.

Why am I obsessing over this? I just like trying to figure out the layouts of these cool hideouts and such!

Here is a cool video that shows the model set used for the garage and patio...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be2T_zWGZ5Q.

Here is a scene of them leaving home base...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2RDh0EqRH8&NR=1. There may not be a slope when leaving the candy kisses secret entrance. It may be more to do with the camera angle.

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[–] moodie-1 9 years ago

So who's to say that Scanlon doesn't enter through the concealed hole in the alley wall of that "abandoned" building (which Britt Reid secretly owns), then walk down a hallway, then climb a flight of stairs to the second floor, then walk down another hallway to a hidden door that allows his entry to the room in Britt Reid's townhouse with the fireplace elevator in it, then rides the elevator back down to the office? Maybe Britt uses the rest of that building as a sort of Batcave-style R&D lab (he'd have to have somewhere to develop all those cool gadgets the GH uses). 😀

[–] srb-3 9 years ago

I just watched The Green Hornet for the first time on Syfy yesterday, seeing about the last ten episodes in the series. I was just wondering about The Green Hornet's resident/hideout. Where is this located, exactly? A mansion, a penthouse, where?

Go watch earlier episodes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059991/board/thread/228151109
You will see that it's Britt Reid's townhouse.

D.A. Scanlon is always shown coming down the hidden elevator to the den. Down from where? The patio seems to be easily accessed by everyone, including villains, which implies that this is a house and not a penthouse. Yet, we see the wall lift up and the Black Beauty exit through the patio area, and then emerge through a secret door in the alley of the city itself. I am puzzled by how all of that fits together. Where does Britt live and how is it connected to the city secret passage???

Secret elevator from the den to the garage.