Comments on: Guest Blogging: Dave Hall – Life beyond Parc Guell..?

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:21:22 +0000

Wow, well it’s amazing what you can do with Photoshop these days! jeje

It’s a great film by the way, and really captured my imagination. I recommend it. I’m actually struggling through the book in Spanish at the moment, and I’m discovering that there’s a lot of parts that they left out of the film, which was probably a good thing, as the book is dragging slightly around the halfway point and could do with a bit of extra editing

By: Marina

Marina — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:21:41 +0000

Lovely park and great pics Dave, I’ll love to go there in our next trip to Barcelona.

I haven’t seen The Perfume film but I heard an interview in the radio with I think it was a producer and the Fura des Baus – a theatre group that was in charge of that last scene – and they commented that they used a copy-paste effect to simulate something like 10.000 people!?!?!

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:47:43 +0000

I daren’t even imagine how many people refused to stop their “method acting” when the director shouted “cut!”

Cut!…. Cuuuuut!….. CUUUUTTTTT!…… Oh, just carry on then if you must…!

By: ValenciaSon

ValenciaSon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:23:12 +0000

@Pepino: Otherwise known as “method acting”

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:16:10 +0000

One other thing, regarding the extras in the film. Apparently there was no shortage of applicants, and many of them happily signed up for the opportunity to have a bit of nooky on celuloid!

If you look closely, there are one or two couples that are taking full advantage and doing more than what the director probably requested! jeje

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:12:56 +0000

Hi all. Been “sin internet” for a week or two so just catching up on things. I’m really glad you liked my suggestion of El Laberinto. I’ve not bigged it up in any way, it truly is that beautiful, honestly! I totally recommend it.

Regarding the final scene in the film, I’m not sure where that square is. I think it could be up near Girona, but don’t quote me. If I find out, I’ll be sure to report back.

By the way, the small plaza with the little fountain that also features in the film towards the beginning where he murders the girl selling the yellow plums, is right here in the centre of Barcelona and was already one of my favourite places before I even saw it in the film. It’s tucked away just off one of the busiest streets in the Barri Gotico but 99% of passers-by have no idea that it’s there. I took a Spanish friend there a few months ago and he never knew it existed despite having lived in the city for years!

It’s not a big grand plaza at all, and in some ways you could say it’s a bit grubby, but catch it on a hot steamy night at dusk when the lights are just coming on and it’s breathtaking. I’m not going to tell you what it’s called or exactly where it is as they’ll be a stampede and I’ll never get a minutes peace to chill next time I pop down there! How cruel! jeje

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:39:30 +0000

Wish I could say this cheered me up but it has had quite the opposite effect – seeing all that neatly trimmed hedging has reminded me that due to the deluge in sunny Yorkshire I have been unable to fettle mum’s and auntied hedges for three weeks!! Cant say I relish the prospect – best scenario is it rains for another three weeks then I can leave it to my son – he’ll be back from Greece and I’ll be in BCN. Great photos…

By: richardksa

richardksa — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:57:35 +0000

That fantastic final scene in the square was filmed somewhere in BCN. Any idea where. And how the heck did they get all those extras to do THAT??

By: Gabriella Opaz

Gabriella Opaz — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:23:37 +0000

Dave! Who knew about this park?! We were just troopsing around Barcelona yesterday with a friend of ours and saw the Sagrada Familia, but never once thought of going here. Granted, I actually went into the cathedral for the first time, leaving completely overwhelmed with the amount of fabulous information thrown at me, rather than just looking at it from a far. But at least I am in the “know” of new fun adventure to be had in the future. Please keep the good news flowing on great places to visit in our hometown

By: ValenciaSon

ValenciaSon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:54:35 +0000

Nicely done Pepino! With a quick display of your park photo, I convinced a colleague at work, who studied there for 3 months as a high school student, to return to Barcelona.