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Yes, Muir Woods rejected them, they're a National Monument under the NPS, and rarely allow commercial filming anyway, and the article says they freaked out at the request for pyrotechnics.

Whereas the Del Norte forest was land privately owned by Miller-Rellim Redwood Company, and already had a timber harvesting plan/permit.

Like when Kubrick filmed the urban Huế scenes in 'Full Metal Jacket' (1987) at London's Beckton Gas Works, which was scheduled to be demolished. [https://www.latlong.net/location/full-metal-jacket-locations...]

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I doubt they "freaked out". They more than likely looked at the request, consulted with a few other employees in the same branch of government and then denied the request.

"demurred", if you prefer. "objected". "expressed concern". "pushed back". Your choice of verb.

I live just up the road from the former Beckton gas works. Also the original Max Headroom (see username) adventure series British feature was filmed there. It amuses me.

> adventure series

That's an odd way to describe a show premised on a head stuck in a TV. Kinda hard to have any kind adventure when you're tethered to a power-supply.

Sci-fi drama?

Also: man, I really enjoyed that show.

After decades of having to make do with tv/vhs downloads they did finally release a DVD box set :-)

Edison Carter does most of the adventuring ;-)

Interesting, but yes, thinking about it, the movie did not contain any jungle scene. Except from a helicopter? But I thought also some other scenes are quite tropical. All staged? Impressive.

Full Metal Jacket was entirely filmed in England. That scene was filmed in Norfolk Broads in eastern England.

I'm always amused by the joke "Of course Kubrick faked the moon landing, but being a perfectionist was only willing to film on location", when in reality he was nothing of the sort. A lot of his filming locations were within an hours travel from home. I suppose it makes sense, even without the 3 month break, FMJ would have been 11 months of filming.

The most immersion breaking part of Dr Strangelove for me is always the outside shot of the ground assault on the "American" base which architecturally is so obviously British it snaps me out of the film each time.

There’s a scene in Smokey and the Bandit filmed in California and it’s entirely recognizable for natives of the area - and horribly immersion breaking.

Well for me also some scenes in FMJ felt weirdly off, not what I expected of vietnam, but since I never been there, I just thought, ok, so they also have that there..

'Full Metal Jacket' was shot in or around London (urban scenes), with countryside scenes in Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire. Kubrick was reclusive and refused to fly.

The link I already gave above lists all locations for FMJ, with map pin and picture: https://www.latlong.net/location/full-metal-jacket-locations...

> Full Metal Jacket was filmed in Bassingbourn (for Parrish Island), Beckton Gas Works, Cliffe, Epping Forest, Isle of Dogs, Pinewood Studios, RAF Swinderby and The Broads.

And here's another description of several locations and which scene they're in:

https://giggster.com/guide/movie-location/where-was-full-met...

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