Rogue Keeper on 1/8/2008 at 13:39
I suspect catbarf is pretty much aware that a 1979 film from former Soviet Union will be probably something different from contemporary Hollywood production and he mentioned he's not after a movie like the game is anyway. ;)
catbarf on 2/8/2008 at 01:02
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I suspect catbarf is pretty much aware that a 1979 film from former Soviet Union will be probably something different from contemporary Hollywood production and he mentioned he's not after a movie like the game is anyway. ;)
I'm pretty tired of cliched Hollywood bullshit so to hear that it is nothing alike is quite reassuring. Thanks to everyone, I'll see if I can get it off Netflix or failing that Ebay.
On another note, I have to say that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is one of the most interesting settings for a film/game I've seen. Can't wait for Clear Sky.
242 on 2/8/2008 at 11:56
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I'm pretty tired of cliched Hollywood bullshit so to hear that it is nothing alike is quite reassuring. Thanks to everyone, I'll see if I can get it off Netflix or failing that Ebay.
Be aware that it may seem quite boring, the magic of meditative attraction is there, but it's boring still. I liked Tarkovsky's Solaris considerably more.
BTW, when I learned in school, Soviet Union still existed, our literature teacher had our class go to the nearest cinema and watch Stalker as one of her lesson. Of course, I didn't get anything back then ;)
Rogue Keeper on 4/8/2008 at 07:51
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On another note, I have to say that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is one of the most interesting settings for a film/game I've seen.
Of course the film was not being shot in CEE, which didn't exist in 78-9, but at a deserted hydro power plant and chemical plant on the Jägala river near Tallinn, Estonia.
Shooting in locations with high levels of toxins present took it's toll however - many crew members including Tarkovsky's wife died of cancer later, others at least earned allergies...
catbarf on 6/8/2008 at 17:33
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Of course the film was not being shot in CEE, which didn't exist in 78-9, but at a deserted hydro power plant and chemical plant on the Jägala river near Tallinn, Estonia.
Yeah, it's strange how similar it is, though.
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Shooting in locations with high levels of toxins present took it's toll however - many crew members including Tarkovsky's wife died of cancer later, others at least earned allergies...
Didn't Tarkovsky himself suffer serious injury from it?
242 on 6/8/2008 at 18:51
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Shooting in locations with high levels of toxins present took it's toll however - many crew members including Tarkovsky's wife died of cancer later, others at least earned allergies...
Come on, don't exaggerate. Why do you think they shoot in locations with high level of toxins? A deserted hydro power plant and chemical plant doesn't mean there necessarily is a dangerous pollution. And even if it's so why do you think they were exposed to dangerous level of the hypothetic toxins.
Yes, Tarkovsky died of cancer too, it may happen with anyone and anywhere :(
Rogue Keeper on 7/8/2008 at 07:37
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film)) "Production"
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Norton.html)
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The choice of location and this deadly foam tuned out to be fatal, if sound recordist Vladimir Sharun's explanation is correct: "Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured poisonous liquids downstream." To this he attributes not only allergic reactions from the crew, but the eventual deaths from bronchial cancer of Tarkovsky himself, his wife Larissa and the director's favourite actor Anatoly Solonitsyn. Although Estonia, now a member of the EU, has counteracted much of this environmental damage, there are pockets of enduring contamination, such as the town of Sillamäe near the Russian border, which in Soviet times was a secret uranium extraction centre.
