You can’t say they skimped on detail – keep your eyes peeled for the discarded gum and fake pigeons added for Big Apple authenticity.
#Amazing spider man windows
In fact, many of the New York street scenes were filmed on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot in Los Angeles, where more than 1,450 bare windows on the lot were dressed by a team of 18 set dressers, creating fake Starbucks, DKNY, Manolo Blahnik, Sephora, Dean & Deluca and Bed, Bath & Beyond. This is the New York branch of the National Museum Of The American Indian – formerly the Old Customs House – 1 Bowling Green at Broadway, a grand building familiar from The Godfather Part II, Batman Forever, Big Daddy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Working Girl and Ghostbusters 2.Īfter webbily nabbing the car thief, vigilante style, Parker takes off on a thrilling chase filmed beneath the arches of the elevated section of Riverside Drive, between 130th and 135th Streets in Harlem, and gets to paraphrase Dustin Hoffman’s famous ad-lib from Midnight Cowboy “I’m swingin’ here!”.
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It’s south to Lower Manhattan to find the NYPD HQ out of which Captain Stacy ( Denis Leary) operates. The dockside, where Parker practices his skateboard moves and starts to learn a few spider manoeuvres is the dock at San Pedro, south of Los Angeles. The building is the HQ of the Hearst empire, founded by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate fictionalised by Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. The Hearst Tower is a bit of an oddity, a traditional 1928 stone building to which a 46-story glass tower was added by architect Norman Foster. The Amazing Spider Man location: the entrance and lobby of the Oscorp building: Hearst Building, West 57th Street, West Side, Manhattan Most of the school classrooms were built in the Sony Studio in Culver City, Los Angeles, but the gym where newly-empowered Parker gets to humiliate macho bully Flash is that of St John Bosco High School, 13640 South Bellflower Boulevard, Bellflower, way southeast of LA.
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#Amazing spider man movie
The exterior is Taft High School, 5461 Winnetka Avenue, Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles – previously seen as 'West Dale High' in The Brady Bunch Movie and as ‘Gregory Heights Middle School’ in Crazy Stupid Love. We’re soon off to the sunny west with Peter Parker’s ‘Midtown Science High School’, which is a conflation of two schools, both in California. Maybe a timely spider bite could have spared us all that nastiness in the shower.Įverything is reinvented, but as in the Sam Raimi films, the East coast setting is provided by both New York and Los Angeles.Īunt May ( Sally Field) and Uncle Ben ( Martin Sheen) have moved from Queens to the Windsor Terrace neighbourhood near Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where they live at 36 Fuller Place, just to the north of Prospect Avenue. A bit of a speedy reboot, but Andrew Garfield slips perfectly into the Spidy lycra, though his stuttering shyness disturbingly evokes a young Norman Bates.