Are the stairs that De Niro and Reno go down and up at the beginning and end of the movie the same stairs that Jimmy Cagney goes down at the beginning of the WWII spy movie "13 Rue Madeline", released in 1947?
shareAll I know is that Ronin was filmed in Montmartre. There's probably more than one flights of stairs.
sharethe stairs were filmed rue drevet in parís the bar in a studio
shareThe director says the stairs were real. The pub and the ground level surroundings (where de Niro looks around and hides his gun) were sets. The cut is the moment when a person walks past the camera and blocks it's view for a split second.
shareThe director says the stairs were real. The pub and the ground level surroundings (where de Niro looks around and hides his gun) were sets. The cut is the moment when a person walks past the camera and blocks it's view for a split second.
At the foot of the steps, the ‘Bar de Montmartre’, where the crew meets up, is TexMex restaurant Blue Sky, rue des Trois Frères. If you watch carefully, you’ll see a crafty cut (as extras pass in front of the camera) to a studio set of the bar, recreated at the Studios Éclair in Epinay. This explains why Sam can comfortably walk alongside the steps but you can’t.
The movie opens with a shot of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in the Montmartre district of Paris. The viewpoint then lowers to show Rue Drevet, running down from the butte of Montmartre through the 18th Arrondisement.share
Rue Drevet is just three blocks long, from its upper end where it tees into Rue Gabrielle to its bottom end where it turns nearly a right angle into Rue la Vieuville, leading toward the Abbesses Métro Station.
The middle third of Rue Drevet is a steep staircase, from Rue André Barsacq down to Rue des 3 Frères.
A café once known as the Blue Sky at the bottom of the staircase is the setting of the opening and closing scenes of the film. One character walks down in the opening, another walks up in the closing.
The steps are real, I have visited them myself.
the "bar/ restaurant" is actually a bar/ restaurant in real life (called sky blue or something like that), you cannot, however, walk between the bar and the steps like De Niro does in the film, they are right next to each other.
"I'm leaving, i've assessed the situation, and i'm going".