Fictional Movie Cities

13-10-2008 09:11

Over the years cities like London, New York, LA and Paris have all proved to be perfect settings for movies grounding them very much in reality.

Despite this it’s the cities of fiction that have the ability to transport the audience to a different place, that in some cases we could never imagine, and cinema has taken us to some of the most incredible settings.

And this week, with the release of The City of Ember, the audience are transported once again as another city of fiction is brought to the big screen. Based on the novel by Jeanne Duprau The City of Ember is a self-contained, self-maintained city underground.

To celebrate the release of the film FemaleFirst searched movie archives to find some of the best fictional movie cities.

Gotham City

Gotham City is the home of Batman and the caped crusader aims to watch over it’s inhabitants and keep the streets free from crime and violence.

And over the years the appearance has changed dramatically it came to the big screen in 1989 and Tim Burton’s vision was of a run down, neglected city that is riddled with crime. The design of the city was an attempt to imagine what might have happened to New York City had there been no planning commission and had it been run by pure extortion.

That changed when director Joel Schumacher took over the franchise in 1995 when Gotham became an outlandish example of modern expressionism filled with futuristic conceptions. But more recently the image of Gotham is grounded more in reality full of subterranean streets , sky scrapers and elevated train tracks.