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VIENNA, July 14 – In the last episode of his adventures, moviegoers saw James Bond die with death in the Austrian Alps
Now in the same place at 3,000 meters above sea level, a museum dedicated to the world of fictional spy has opened its doors.
After a vertiginous ride by cable car, visitors to the museum will be greeted by the view of the futuristic angular concrete structure protruding from the steep cliff, facing Panorama from the dramatic peaks – the image of the den. a secret agent.
The installation "007 Elements", opened this week in the Austrian province of Tyrol, uses one of the most remarkable places of the latest film of the franchise, 2015 Specter [1945900[19659006] Several key scenes were shot in Soelden, one of Austria's most famous winter sports resorts, in the heart of the Oetztal Alpine Valley.
The steel-glass clinic where Lea Seydoux's character works is actually a gourmet restaurant next to the cable car station – which is now next to the museum. And the Oetztal Glacier Road was the host of the pursuit between Daniel Craig's 007 and the perennial bad guys, against the backdrop of snow-capped peaks.
"We thought the association between this exceptional place and the James Bond brand would be fantastic," Jakob Falkner, head of the Bergbahnen Soelden lift company and one of the architects of the project, said to the AFP:
Below zero
The installation was designed in close collaboration with "
The architect Johann Obermoser explains the determination Bond-esque necessary to build the space, with some of the space of 1300 square meters dug directly from the rock, leaving most of the rooms "inside the mountain, so that you see as little as possible from the outside. "
"The idea was to feel the harshness of this landscape from the inside, to feel the"
The temperature inside should be kept below zero all the time. year, as the building could collapse if the surrounding permafrost began to melt.
A little over a year to build the museum in these hostile conditions, says Obermoser: "We had snow from the month of August; Inside, the museum includes a nine-story tour through dark rooms and tunnels equipped with giant screens and mirrors. to immerse the visitor in selected scenes from the movies
.] "Live version" of the movies
"We wanted it to look more like a live version of going to cinema, "says Neal Callow, artistic director of the installation and the latest Bond movies, adding that he has tried to recreate his work in designing movie sets in the context of a museum, using architecture, light and sound.
Visitors will cross the story of the franchise represented by the various actors who have played Bond and some of the most recognizable locations in the series, before being immersed in some of the action scenes and discover the secrets of how they were filmed.
And being a museum on James Bond, there are of course a lot of gadgets to admire. way: W acches, a gold gun, a robotic car.
And the pièce de résistance? The plane of one of the most dramatic scenes Specter hung in pieces in front of a glass wall, with the alpine horizon behind. – AFP-Relaxnews
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