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SPECIAL FEATURE: SHOOTING IN ONTARIO
that street with 25 taxicabs and
rotate those cars and keep driving
them through the scene.
Need some realistic body parts fast?
Jay Scanlon, owner of Lock Up
Props Inc., a prop-rental shop in
Toronto, is your man.
SCANLON People often want body parts
in jars. For [NBC’s] Hannibal, we
rented out 30 jars of various oddities:
dry mushrooms, weird liquids and
moss. They also rented our morgue
table. It’s a period white cast-porcelain
table, a real one. It’s very old, I would
guess early 1900s, heavy enameled cast
iron, with drain holes and channels.
They took quite a bit of medical
equipment, including my cryogenic
tanks. They’re 6-feet-tall,
stainless-steel tanks.
Ontario also can play itself, transforming
from squeaky clean into dystopian
and sinister thanks to skilled art departments.
One example: Denis Villeneuve
portrayed Toronto as a cold, dark,
spider-infested megalopolis for Enemy,
starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
NIV FICHMAN, ENEMY PRODUCER Denis
has called the movie a “love letter to
Toronto,” and if that’s the case, I can’t
imagine how he’d express his dislike for
the city. It’s a highly urban film, and he
plays that up very much. The whole
spider motif, with the camera capturing
streetcar wires, the canopy over a
building, a motorcycle helmet like a
spider’s web — he found spider images
in places where none of us would have
looked. Denis spent a lot of time
walking around Toronto and being in
awe of the city. It’s still Canada, and it
spoke to him in a way it might not be.
WARREN P. SONODA, TOTAL FRAT MOVIE
DIRECTOR Hamilton [in Ontario] is two
different cities. It’s the old steel town.
But slowly, as the steel mills are phased
out, now it’s a big medical hub. You get
posh areas of town, and you get the
grittiness of steel mills. On [fight flick]
Nadda
Katz
Fichman
Los Angeles-set Maps to the Stars
was shot primarily in Toronto.
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