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Where did they film the Bosnia scenes?

posted 15 years ago by StoneGriffin
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The production only lists OREGON and some Washington State locations, but I seriously doubt that Oregon or Washington doubled for Kosovo, especially with that REAL Russian T62 tank that rolled down the street during the night attack scene. WTF?

BTW: If you're wondering if that information can be gleaned from the commentary track .... forget it. Director William Friedkin doesn't even ADDRESS what's happening on the screen during his director commentary. In fact he reiterates many details of the general story that the viewer already knows.

Never have I ever experienced a more WORTHLESS DVD commentary.

It was like he was just chatting casually with an interviewer at some coffee bistro and they put his ramblings on the 'director commentary' track of the DVD. Ugh. It was maddening, especially when things were happening on screen, and the viewer wanted the director to EXPLAIN what he was doing here.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] munspel 15 years ago

Kosovo is not in Bosnia!

[–] StoneGriffin 15 years ago

Okay I stand corrected. It happened during the civil war in the Bosnia-Herzegovina area so the typo is understandable for anyone who remembers watching the war in the Balkans during the 1990s.

Now do you KNOW the answer to the original question?

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] StoneGriffin 15 years ago

BTW, I'm working on a FILM right now and part of it takes place during the Kosovo war of 1998-1999. I had to educate myself on the conflicts and the regions (and the COSTUMES! LOL) and I will never make THAT mistake again! ;) Kosovo is nowhere NEAR Bosnia and the wars were technically several years apart. I never fully appreciated the differences until I was forced to research it for an upcoming film :D

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] MovieAlien 15 years ago

Best bet is a Hollywood sound stage/backlot.

[–] SunHelmet 15 years ago

It was filmed in N. Portland near the Columibia River. There were even news accounts during the time of this scene's filming of Portland residents being alarmed by all the huge explosions so recently after 9/11.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=9196

[–] StoneGriffin 15 years ago

What mystifies me is how they got a REAL Soviet T-62 tank. I didn't know they had real ones that were in running condition (not in a museum) in the U.S. They have tons of 'fake ones' which were built up from american chassis, but the tanks in this movie were not fakes (or they were the best fakes I've ever seen, and I'm a tank expert :) ) The body and bogie wheels were 100% accurate, which means to me that it was not a mockup.

And no, it's NOT easy nor legal to import Soviet Armored vehicles into the U.S. The only real ones I've seen in private hands were either nonmoving in museums or Vintage 1950s versions or earlier.

Thanks for the heads up! :) It was much appreciated :)

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] theredcomet 15 years ago

Did you watch the short documentary pieces at all? The Kosovo scenes were all an elaborate set that they built. They go into filming that set in detail in one of the documentary pieces called something like "Filming the Hunted".

[–] StoneGriffin 15 years ago

Those did not exist on the DVD I had. Apparently the distributor sells different DVDs. I purchased the rental 'stripped down' version that the Video stores sell as "Previously viewed".

Thanks for the heads up! That sort of featurette probably would have answered all the questions I had.

What's frustrating is that I bought major movie DVDs on Amazon (used) and they're all the 'rental' versions, which have NO EXTRAS (only language and chapters). Pretty lame, but I suppose it's a ploy to get us to actually BUY the DVD rather than rent or buy used rental DVDs.

Thanks again! :) But now I have to BUY the non-rental version.

PS there are rental places that DO stock the full version, but my local Hollywood Video/Blockbuster videos all seem to have the stripped versions.. :(

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] yoncenator 15 years ago

You'd be amazed at the size of some sound stages. Impressive outdoor scenes can be created using painted lifelike backdrops you'd swear were real if you couldn't see the edges.

Did you tell LUKE..? Is THAT who you could tell??