Public Enemies(09) in CHICAGO

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Public Enemies（公眾之敵）的John Dillinger (by Johnny Depp) 故事就是設定在30年代的芝加哥～這部09年的電影好多的場景都是在芝加哥市取的讓來這觀光客多了一些旅遊的選擇囉下為全文: http://tinyurl.com/yhuvlku By Colleen Mastony July 02, 2009 Sure, Johnny Depp looks dashing as John Dillinger. Christian Bale makes a mighty fine lawman. And no one will deny the delicious sex appeal of Marion Cotillard. But the real star of the movie “Public Enemies,” which opened Wednesday in wide release, is the brawling, bustling and undeniably beautiful city of Chicago. The film’s director, Michael Mann, is a hometown boy who grew up in Humboldt Park and graduated from Amundsen High School. Obsessive about historical accuracy and a stickler for even the smallest details, Mann shot in Chicago for a total of 36 days last year, sending scouts to many of Dillinger’s old haunts and filming, in some cases, on the very streets the bank robber once prowled. Sitting in darkened theaters, Chicagoans will no doubt recognize some of the three dozen city locations featured in the film, as well as the many other scenes shot in Indiana, Wisconsin and Downstate Illinois. Buildings from the 1920s and 1930s – including the Aragon Ballroom and the Auditorium Theatre – get top billing. So sit back, enjoy the show. It’s about our sweet home Chicago – complete with gangsters and gunfire. Tour the sites: 1. Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.: Believe it or not, filmmakers almost didn’t shoot the final climactic scene at the Biograph Theater, now called the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, where Dillinger was gunned down by federal agents in 1934. Worried that it would take too much time and money to turn back the clock and return the area to the way it looked in the 1930s, film scouts scoured the region for a theater that could serve as a substitute. In the end, though, only the Biograph would do. Working from historical photos, crews removed light poles and traffic signals, installed faux trolley tracks, rolled out rubber cobblestones, put a false facade over modern storefronts, added a ticket booth and screwed 300 old-timey light bulbs into the marquee. “Standing at the front of the Biograph, you could film in 360 degrees, and it was all historically accurate,” said James McAllister, the supervising locations manager. Interior Biograph scenes were filmed at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave. Other theaters featured in the movie include the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and the Grand Theater in Wausau, Wis. 2. Uptown National Bank Building, 4753 N. Broadway: Film crews occupied the bank for the better part of a month in preparation for one day of filming in the second-floor Grand Lobby, which boasts marble floors, Tiffany-style lights and original 1920s-era teller cages. Workers used temporary set walls to obscure the bank’s elevators and installed a green screen so the vault appears to be on the second floor. In another special effect, moviegoers will see Depp rush out of the bank, but when he steps outside, Depp’s not in Chicago anymore. Instead, he runs down the steps of the Masonic Temple in Oshkosh, Wis., where crews filmed the exterior scene. Other bank buildings featured include the Second Ward Savings Bank in Milwaukee, now home to the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the First National Bank in Oshkosh. 3. Old Sheriff’s House and (former) Lake County Jail, 226 S. Main St., Crown Point, Ind.: In the 1930s, the Lake County Jail was considered to be, ahem, escape-proof. But on March 3, 1934, Dillinger proved that it wasn’t, pulling off what’s been called his greatest escape by carving a gun from a bar of soap (or a washboard – the story varies) and staining the fake gun with shoe polish. The filmmakers decided early on that they wanted to use the original building in Crown Point, which, in 2007, was crumbling from neglect. Advance crews hauled away garbage, sandblasted the original steel bars and added lots of paint to get the site ready. As it turns out, the movie has renewed interest in the old jail and tours are now offered on Saturdays. The former Lake County Jail isn’t the only local house of corrections showcased in the film. The movie opens with a shot of the imposing outer walls of Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill – a stand-in for Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind., where Dillinger spent nine years and, after his parole, staged a jailbreak that freed a crew of his friends. Interior Indiana State Prison scenes were filmed at the former Joliet Correctional Center. 4. Aragon Ballroom (a), 1106 W. Lawrence Ave.; The Auditorium Theatre (b), 50 E. Congress Pkwy.; and 135 S. LaSalle St. (c), formerly the LaSalle Bank Building and originally the Field Building: Several landmarks provide a glamorous backdrop for the budding romance between Dillinger and girlfriend Billie Frechette, played by Cotillard. The couple first meet at a club that’ s really the Aragon Ballroom. Then they sneak away for dinner in a restaurant that, in real life, is a side-entrance lobby of an Art Deco building at 135 S. LaSalle St. Finally, Dillinger tracks down his ladylove on a night she’s working the coat check at the Steuben Club (really the lobby of the Auditorium Theatre). 5. Pittsfield Building, 55 E. Washington St.: Audiences will glimpse the gilded lobby of the Pittsfield Building, which in the movie serves as the home of the FBI offices of agent Melvin Purvis. Film crews used a raw space on the fifth floor to build a detailed set – complete with old-time office furnishings and wooden partitions – where Purvis rallies his agents and plots strategy. When Purvis stands by a window, look for the Marshall Field’ s and Garland Buildings in the background. Crews used spotlights to illuminate those buildings so they would show up more clearly in the film. Filmmakers even rented a historic elevated train, so the 1930s-era train could rumble past the window. 6. Dillinger’s apartment, 1260 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee. In 1933, Dillinger lived with Frechette at 4310 N. Clarendon Ave., in a yellow-brick Uptown apartment building that’s still there. Filmmakers checked out that hideaway, but found it lacking in grandeur. So scouts fanned out across Chicago, Indiana and Wisconsin, looking for locations that could serve as Dillinger’s pad. The hunt was no small task. “There are thousands of apartments in thousands of buildings,” said Patrick Muldoon, a locations manager. Eventually, they settled on a two-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot penthouse in Milwaukee – chosen because of its Art Deco look – that is owned by Don Meissner, 40, a real estate manager and investor. To prepare for filming, crews ripped out Meissner’s kitchen cabinets, added period valances and draperies, closed up a doorway and installed a faux fireplace (all temporary changes). 7. 440 N. Clark St. (near Hubbard Street). In April 1934, FBI agents arrested Frechette at a corner tavern in the 400 block of North State Street. At the time, Dillinger, trying to keep a low profile, was waiting in a car; he saw the agents bring Frechette out in handcuffs. To re-create the scene, filmmakers chose the 400 block of North Clark Street – not far from the actual site of Frechette’s arrest – where many 1930s-era buildings remain. “They’ve done a nice job of preserving the architecture right in those two to three blocks, so you can do a scene of downtown Chicago in the 1930s and you don’t have to do too much” to give the street a period look, said McAllister, the supervising locations manager. 8. Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wis. Filmmakers went back to the site of the Little Bohemia raid, where in April 1934 FBI agents waged a disastrous gun battle with Dillinger, who jumped from a window and escaped through the woods. Now operating as a restaurant, the Little Bohemia looks much the way it did when Dillinger stayed there. The place uses the same furniture in the dining room. Upstairs rooms, closed for decades, are virtually unchanged. Cast and crew re-enacted the gun battle over several nights in April last year, and were filming close to the 74th anniversary of the shootout. Before the cameras rolled, crew loaded up on fake bullets and replaced windows with breakaway stunt glass. Capitalizing on the movie, lodge owners plan to offer tours this summer. Dillinger left several items behind when he made his getaway in 1934, including a suitcase, shaving cream and a bottle of Ex-Lax – all of which are on display in the restaurant. Restaurant manager Maggie Wuestenhagen, 48, says, “You can still see the old bullet holes in the walls.” -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 131.193.195.152 ※ 編輯: eertllams 來自: 131.193.195.152 (01/15 03:33)