Notice how the windows in the building represent an upside down pyramid. The interior design was interesting but the furnishings did not go well with it. The building reminded me of something from Bladerunner although Mischa Barton compares it to Gotham city; guess they figured most people would "get" the reference better. With all those solar panels why would they worry about saving energy?
shareI was wondering about that myself with the solar panels. Maybe it was Jimmy just messing with Sam?
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Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home
- The Arcade Fire
What's more is, that it's an "upside down" pyramid, and the architect buries himself in a tomb in what would be the "bottom" of the pyramid were it the right way up.
sharePretty good movie, though there are minor flaws and Barton's sex appeal is over used. It attracts the viewers, but it takes away from the genre itself.
Anyway, there is a claim in the movie that Pharaohs built pyramids to be their tombs. It is a worldwide belief, almost like an axiom. In fact, NOT ONE Egyptian body was found in any of the pyramids. All of the Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings. And all of the Giza pyramids were actually built long before Egyptian civilization appeared. With a completely different purpose(s). There's plenty of STRONG evidence for that, unlike those that official Egyptology offer claiming otherwise. Only to keep public in belief that civilization is in constant progress and old civilizations were barbarian and primitive (in a bad meaning that word has today). While they are unable to build a 10m tall pyramid like that.
Absolutely gorgeous building.
The design was very clearly brutalist, as it was all masonry and very stark and bleak, with metal and wooden forms intermixed, which was absolutely perfect for the movie esp. given the desolate setting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist
The filmmakers obviously knew their architecture. How many other movies really take the time to be artistically precise?
Regarding the solar panels/automatic hall lights... Solar panels don't produce that much energy. They're getting better but it takes a lot of solar panel surface area to produce minimal energy. Also, I would think someone using solar panels to begin with, would be energy conscious. He also wanted his building to "live" forever. A building that uses minimal resources, particularly power, is more likely to stand the tests of time.
shareGood thinking Jen331 - also, the solar panels may not have been engineered to store that energy in gigantic batteries. That's the problem with solar powered homes - you have to send the extra juice back through the system, making the meter go backwards, because homeowners don't usually have the cash to install massive batteries to hold all that power. the less they use, they longer the building can survive self-sufficient
shareHmm...
Let it be unsaid: insignificance is the locus of true increpation.