Cinderella's castle stands in Dresden!

[dieastra]

As I learnt today, the castle in the new Disney movie "Cinderella" was inspired by our Zwinger here in Dresden! They did not really film there, but photographed all details and then created the castle in the computer, also added another floor to make it look more impressive. Still, you can see what inspired them. Here is a comparison picture:



Another picture in the daylight:



In recent years, a lot of Hollywood movies have been filmed in Saxony. We are rich on beautiful landscapes and historical cities. A few recent movies were "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "The Reader" and also "Cloud Atlas".

Also, back in 2002 when we had that bad flood, someone filmed it and it was used to generate the flood in "The Day after tomorrow".

And now we even have the Cinderella castle and I can walk through it every day if I like. Come and visit me and I am showing it to you!

Even the Doctor has been there:

Comments

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Wow waht a beautiful castle and what lovely pictures of the Doctor visiting it.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I live in a beautiful city!
There are lots of museums in it, a famous paintings gallery and others.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful castle. Lucky that so many things are filmed there and you get to live in such a beautiful place.

Stacey

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am very proud of my home-city but I guess everyone is of theirs ;) I can't imagine leaving and living somewhere else.

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I live in such a beautiful city! Very different from yours obviously.

[bloodsong13t.livejournal.com]

you live in cinderella castle!

...why am i not surprised :)


you really do have it good. and to think how it could have been, the way you wrote before, when the berlin wall was still standing.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Told you you need to come visit me ;) Many pretty nice things over here in good ol' Europe. Americans usually do the Heidelberg - Nuremburg - Munich corner, but Saxonia is rich of historical buildings as well.

If the Berlin wall was still standing, we would not have this conversation. Although I do wonder, if they would have prevented us from using the internet entirely? Or if it would be restricted like in China? I'd probably not even miss it, as you only can miss things you know about. Probably computers would be so expensive that I would not buy one.