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Every Country in a Best Picture Movie
Name every modern day country with a location depicted in a movie which won an Oscar for Best Picture.
# = Number of movies the country appears in
Narrative locations not shooting locations
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(To clarify: I'm not disputing it at all. Just registering my surprise.)
Schindler’s List is set in Poland, and ends in the Czech Republic and Israel. I haven’t seen it for a while so I may be forgetting scenes in Germany. I checked wiki summaries for all the Best Picture films and didn’t see any German scenes mentioned for Schindler’s List. Can you point to any? If so will include it :)
Someone on an Oppenheimer forum also pointed out that it has a cutaway depicting the Halifax harbor explosion of 1917 so Canada finally makes the list too! It's brief, but the dialog confirms it so it counts.
Also added a point to the tallies for USA, Germany and Switzerland.
Anyway, I noticed that The Bahamas is missing (final scene of The Silence of the Lambs). Also, perhaps you could somehow share your full list so that takers could help find the exact numbers?
Yes, there are some films that are hard to tell exactly. I've used wiki summaries, scripts, transcripts, the films themselves and other articles to try to clarify some moments.
But, for instance, Mrs Miniver has a montage of people dying in WW1 from 1914 to 1918. All quick medium shots dissolving together that don't show a specific location. It's more impressionistic than specific. Presumably representing at least France, but probably Belgium and elsewhere too. It's unspecified. With moments like that I haven't added to the tallies.
Though I've discovered that Belgium does feature in Patton in newsreel footage. I'm just deciding whether to include that. I'm leaning towards yes as the film uses the newsreel, full screen, to depict the story i.e. it's not just a TV on in a background somewhere showing some other country, which I wouldn't count.
Lovely Quiz :)
You have also now given me an idea, that instead of spending almost as long as the film searching Netflix for something to watch, I can now just work my way through Award winners and nominated movies.
Also, I could've sworn The Bridge on the River Kwai took place in Myanmar. Guess I was wrong.
It's a common (and easy) misconception. The railway going over the eponymous bridge is the Burma Railway, and was being built by the Japanese to supply resources for their attempt to capture Rangoon.
However the bridge itself (as depicted in the book and movie) is in Thailand.
Wikipedia has is that "The next morning, after driving to the Swiss border, the von Trapp family make their way on foot across the frontier into Switzerland to safety and freedom."
I've updated the clue anyway to focus on other films.
I know you won't update that quiz again for a while, but doesn't The Bridge on the River Kwaï have scenes in Myanmar?
Patton was dispatched there as a diversionary tactic, which confuses Nazi Germany. In the film, Patton gives a tour of an ancient battlefield (around 1:46 into the movie).
Awesome quiz by the way, great work!
In Mutiny on the Bounty, at the end of Bligh's voyage in the ship's launch, he and the rest of the launch crew (put into the launch by Christian and his men) arrive at land--they are shown just offshore.
I think this is Kupang in Indonesia, where Bligh ultimately finished the launch journey. There's dialog in the movie that says that's what he's making for (Timor, in the Dutch East Indies) and his line when in sight of land is "We've beaten the sea itself." Which I read as the journey being over at that point.
Historically, Bligh ended up at Kupang, which is on the Indonesia side of Timor; not in East Timor. In the historical journey, they also stopped at Australian islands, enabling them to finish the journey, but this isn't shown in the movie.
I re-watched the relevant scenes of the movie about the journey in the launch, but not every minute. I think the other locations (Tahiti, Pitcairn) are covered by France and the UK.
In Jerusalem, General Allenby urges Lawrence to support the "big push" on Damascus.
Ben-Hur has already been counted in the tally of 7 films for Italy.
I'm at a loss as to the third movie set in India after Slumdog and Gandhi. Could you help me out, please?
Which is tied with Patton for the most countries in one film. The ones I counted for it were UK, France, Spain, Italy, Egypt, India, Thailand, China, Japan, and the USA.