I read from the trivia that The Empire Strikes Back was shot overseas in some unknown land. The Empire Strikes Back Have always felt like a foreign production and not shooting it in America takes away from the production quality.
shareHoth is full of ice and snow, so naturally they had to go somewhere with the mountainous icy terrain they were looking for, so Scandinavia seemed the best place.
"The Empire Strikes Back Have always felt like a foreign production and not shooting it in America takes away from the production quality."
I've never heard so much stupid, ignorant and xenophobic bullshit in one sentence.
EDIT: And for your information, OP, a lot of the interior shots of the OT and the first PT movie were shot outside of America, too, namely England for the OT and that exotic place on Naboo in Phantom Menace, which was Spain or Italy I believe. Even Indiana Jones had a lot of shots done in England, too, and definitely abroad in Egypt and elsewhere for location shooting!
Clearly we have snow in New Jersey or Montana or someplace equally cold. I just don’t see the value add in shooting overseas. I was not aware that many Star Wars movies was shot in the country of London.
shareLondon is a city, not a country, but it is so wealthy and powerful compared to the rest of England that it may as well be a country.
Maybe London is better at it at a better price?
... and adds to the production quality.
a startling amount of American movies are actually made in the UK , and Canada.
Maybe its to avoid union hassle or something.
"was Spain or Italy" both of them are right but in " the clone wars "
shareMoronic assumptions.
shareThat foreign land I think was Norway.
shareYeah, I wasn't sure, so I said Scandinavia, which covers Sweden and Norway, and I think Finland, too.
Oh no. Finland is not Scandinavian.
shareSweden and Norway, then? OK.
Finland is not Scandinavian racially because the Finnish and Saami people are of a Mongoloid extraction.
shareWell, we desperately try at least. We have a mandatory Swedish, which only 5% of the population speaks, but everybody has to study it from elementary school to university.
shareI was being a tad sarcastic. It's true that Finland isn't Scandinavian and that Finns are a little genetically different not only from Scandinavians/Swedes but also from Europe in general, but some point out that Finland is not Scandinavian almost as if it's offensive to suggest that the country has anything remotely in common with the Scandinavian countries.
shareLol how on earth does shooting overseas take away the production quality? I dont get it?
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shareI can imagine its much cheaper to shoot overseas. I have never been but can imagine the cost of living is much much lower in places like Europe or Australia then here in America. Just imagine bringing a big fat wad of American dollars $$ in cash and watch the locals with slacked jawed admiration swarm over all that money. Live like a king for a buck a day in London.
share...until your six-figure medical bills roll in.
shareLondon is poor and underdeveloped compared to the US sister.
shareThe cost of living in the UK is estimated to be roughly 16% more expensive than living in the U.S. However, rent is about 32.8% lower in the U.K.
https://theportablewife.com/living-abroad/moving-to-london/differences-living-in-us-vs-uk/
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/100214/what-cost-living-difference-between-us-and-uk.asp
Who cares, it was mostly shot in sound stage anyhow.
shareIn Mexico US dollars will carry you a long way. Europe is deemed like "the Mexico of overseas" anything goes there. Its very poor, dirty and underdeveloped compared to here.
share"Its very poor, dirty and underdeveloped compared to here."
YOU WHAT? Europe is also much, much older and cultured, with a much richer history than America.
Well, there's quite a difference between Denmark and Moldova. Europe is not a country.
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I didn't know your trailer park had garbage collection.
shareWe're not even allowed to carry guns around! What's up with that!?
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