Walking around London at night I was struck by how many different sides the city had to it. London is multiple cities built on top of each other, both through modern innovation and disaster. This makes it a popular city for filmmaking due to the wide variety of architecture. It was cool to see how filmmakers took little bits and pieces in London and transformed them into whatever they wanted. London itself is a very hodge podge sort of city. It is, as Prof Kost said, the United Kingdom’s New York and Washington D.C. Having just come from Scotland and hearing the complaints from my relatives about the way the United Kingdom is run, London is sort of a microcosm of their issues. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales have their own substate governments just like the states do in the US, however, England doesn’t have that, it only has the main government, giving England more power than the other substates. London is meant to be the cultural hub of England, much like New York is the cultural hub of the east coast, but it is also the seat of the government, because it reflects the English need to have everything. But that’s politics.
That said, it was wonderful to walk around a city that’s so iconic in so many different ways. Having seen the wide array of locales in the city, it’s no wonder that international filmmakers have been so drawn to it.
London and Paris 2020 Culzean 