Thursday, November 20, 2008

Cinema de Maroc



Several films have been made in Morocco. We saw two large film studios in Ouarzazate (Oz for short)

A short list of films:
Gladiator - in Oz
Kingdom of Heaven - in Oz
Lawrence of Arabia - in Oz
Black Hawk Down - in Rabat, (it didn't look that rough to me, but I guess I didn't go to where they filmed the movie, thank goodness)
Star Wars - in Tunisia, but it looks like it could have been filmed and inspired here. 


Strangely enough, Casablanca, arguably the most famous of all films involving Morocco, was filmed in Hollywood.

For more, check this wikipedia article out.




2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Have you seen any movies while on your trip?

Jennifer said...

You have a niece! Hurry back so you can meet her! No name yet.

Andrew says:

> She was born on November 26 at 4:35am. 8 lbs 9.6 oz, 21 inches.
>
> Our girl has hair - dark - and eyes are blue right now, but will probably change.
>
> She's a good eater and I just burped her for the first time. She also yawned and sneezed!
>
> When she got her vitamin K shot she didn't cry.
>
> Haven't checked everything out yet but everything looks good so far.