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Kudos to the Set Designer

posted 12 years ago by essex9999
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I loved this movie (although I liked "Cairo ..." a bit more), and one of the best things was the outstanding job they did of recreating the look of the 60s. Some of it was film technique, but the set design played a big part, too. The interiors of the hotels, especially, were note-perfect recreations of the style of the period. The bright colors, the Space-Age design of the furniture ... all were done very well. It's rare to see a movie set in the past that actually looks like a movie made in the past, but OSS 117: Lost in Rio pulls it off beautifully.

[–] j-z-o 12 years ago

Indeed. A remarkable recreation of atmosphere... Most 60s spoofs make fun of the style & design of the era - this one recalled and enlivened the look and concentrated on the humor of the characters...

[–] j_w_pepper 12 years ago

It also worked quite a bit better than the attempt at recreating 1955 for the first film. For one thing, Cairo seemed too full of late-1950s and even 1960s cars (including, I believe, Larmina's Facel-Vega) to be entirely credible.

Not so with Rio's 1968 look, which seemed perfect. What added to this was the frequent (deliberately over-)use of split-screen technique which had its heyday in movies of that era (most notable the original Thomas Crown Affair).
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