Possible location to film Part III TV series
Posted by terrycan 9 years ago to Entertainment
Possible location for the Part III TV series: Mazama Washington.
There is a small town in the Northern Cascade Mountains that felt like a Gulch to me. Mazama, Washington is very independent and lacks most of the big chain stores. Almost everything you can imagine is there. Hotels, restaurants, helicopter skiing, bicycle and ski shop, small grocery store, bakery, and a small airport.
Winthrop, Washington is a few miles down the road and is a little more developed with public schools, a library, and an auditorium/barn.
Highway 20 closes for the winter. Snowmobilers park and the end of the serviced road and ride their snowmachines from there. The only winter access is from the east. There is nothing but wilderness up to and beyond the Canadian border. Mazama has the USA’s largest network of cross country ski trails. There is even a biathlon/shooting range.
Some trails are lined with beautiful modern homes. Many of these home look like they were designed by Howard Roark. The sharp angles, with an abundance of glass walls and flat roofs reminds me of what Dagney noticed on the John Galt line. There is a group of similar rolling structures available for rent.
Locals tell me there are two kinds of people there. People who are born there and scraping out a living. The other are retirees who enjoy the cross country skiing.
I don’t know the area very well. What intrigued me was the feeling of culture and independence. The locals have events that encourage socializing and involvement in local government. The common theme of the shop keepers was they wanted more business. That is normal.
The Mazama airport is really more of an airstrip. You can picture Quinton Daniels landing on the strip with Dagney in hot pursuit and crashing nearby. I am sure North Cascade Heli would be happy to help film Dagney’s rescue.
Mazama and Winthrop are small towns they might welcome the business of a film crew taking over the area for the shoot.
What do you think Scott?
http://www.rollinghuts.com/
http://www.themazamastore.com/
http://goatsbeardmountainsupplies.com/
http://www.methowtrails.org/
http://www.winthropwashington.com/
http://www.airnav.com/airport/W12
http://lostriverairport.com/
http://www.heli-ski.com/blog/
There is a small town in the Northern Cascade Mountains that felt like a Gulch to me. Mazama, Washington is very independent and lacks most of the big chain stores. Almost everything you can imagine is there. Hotels, restaurants, helicopter skiing, bicycle and ski shop, small grocery store, bakery, and a small airport.
Winthrop, Washington is a few miles down the road and is a little more developed with public schools, a library, and an auditorium/barn.
Highway 20 closes for the winter. Snowmobilers park and the end of the serviced road and ride their snowmachines from there. The only winter access is from the east. There is nothing but wilderness up to and beyond the Canadian border. Mazama has the USA’s largest network of cross country ski trails. There is even a biathlon/shooting range.
Some trails are lined with beautiful modern homes. Many of these home look like they were designed by Howard Roark. The sharp angles, with an abundance of glass walls and flat roofs reminds me of what Dagney noticed on the John Galt line. There is a group of similar rolling structures available for rent.
Locals tell me there are two kinds of people there. People who are born there and scraping out a living. The other are retirees who enjoy the cross country skiing.
I don’t know the area very well. What intrigued me was the feeling of culture and independence. The locals have events that encourage socializing and involvement in local government. The common theme of the shop keepers was they wanted more business. That is normal.
The Mazama airport is really more of an airstrip. You can picture Quinton Daniels landing on the strip with Dagney in hot pursuit and crashing nearby. I am sure North Cascade Heli would be happy to help film Dagney’s rescue.
Mazama and Winthrop are small towns they might welcome the business of a film crew taking over the area for the shoot.
What do you think Scott?
http://www.rollinghuts.com/
http://www.themazamastore.com/
http://goatsbeardmountainsupplies.com/
http://www.methowtrails.org/
http://www.winthropwashington.com/
http://www.airnav.com/airport/W12
http://lostriverairport.com/
http://www.heli-ski.com/blog/
SOURCE URL: http://www.winthropwashington.com/
sure wish the theater movie had done better justice
to the book. In fact, I think I could have written a
better script. That's not a brag on being a great
writer, as Ayn Rand had done most of the work already. It would have been a matter of know-
ing what to cut and what to keep; beyond that,
it could have been mainly straight copy from the
book. (to keep it decent, in the scene where
Rearden gives Dagny the ruby pendant, he
could have been shown beginning to take her
clothes off, and it could have cut to her bear
belly with the chain pulling the jewel gradually
up, and then show her on a couch or sofa with
the back of her naked should blade to the cam-
era, with Rearden speaking the lines he uses
in the book). ( Excuse me, I am a "Victorian
prude", and not ashamed of it either).
The Winston tunnel incident could make an
excellent episode all by itself; there would have
to be some comments by the characters to
show the histories and viewpoints of the train-
master, Bill Brent, and the others, and on the
way in, maybe some written ID on the screen
of the passengers going to their (deserved)
deaths; the schoolteacher, the "humanitarian",
the philosopher,etc., with maybe lines recited
as if coming from their thoughts, etc.
And it's back to the original 'common good' question... do we give tax breaks to companies who either promise to or actually do hire locals and pay for local resources that feed marginal dollars back into the economy?
Multiplier-effects can be generated by anyone with a wet finger in the wind.
Jan
Midas describes how he cut off all access to it, except one road, which he skilfully hid. And, of course, Francisco d'Anconia drives a mine into the mountains overlooking the valley.
In fact, the Red Mountains have a pass, that follows the present Million Dollar Highway south and upstream of the valley. Midas and Francisco could easily have destroyed the Million Dollar Highway. That would have been right next to the Red Mountains, which would become D'Anconia Copper Number One.
The downstream road, which is Colorado Highway Five, would easily be the "one road" Midas would have to hide. I imagine John Galt would hide it with a smaller-scale and down-to-earth version of his refractor ray screen.
Add it all up, including the location (near Durango, which would have been the northern terminus of the Phoenix-Durango Railroad), and the Uncompahgre Valley, and the tourist trap town of Ouray, would fit the bill.
I might try "John Galt speaking" just for variety. If the caller either cracks up or says something pertinent, it could be fun.