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Chasing Liberty Full Production Notes "Every family has a rebel... even the First Family."
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 Chapter 5: On the Lam in Europe - A Kaleidoscope of Sets and LocationsFrom an English golf resort to a castle in Prague, from a Venetian fish market to a country road on the Austrian/German border, Chasing Liberty spans a total of 80 sets spread over five countries. Sets were predominately practical with locations both urban and rural in England, Italy and Czech Republic, with additional photography in Germany and the U.S.
In the original script, Anna's adventures take her to Vienna, not Prague, but while scouting locations the filmmakers discovered that Prague might be a better place to film for "settings that worked from both a visual and a production standpoint," according to Johnson. "Prague was ideal." Anna's adventure begins there, crosses into Venice by rail and ultimately to Berlin for the Love Parade, an actual annual event celebrated by huge crowds in the streets of downtown Berlin since 1989.
"A lot of movies about teenagers take place in high school or college settings but this picture really gets out in the world," says Kosove. "It's a story about a person who's not quite a teenager anymore, who's leaving those years behind and growing into adulthood, so the motif is well suited to the ever-changing landscape and new experiences that Anna encounters through various cities in Europe."
Cadiff took full advantage of the eclectic locales to help convey Anna's excitement and her growing confidence, as well as opportunities for humor, not to mention Ben's increasing uneasiness as his assignment seems to be whirling completely out of control. "Principal photography is the director's medium," notes Kosove. "You have to have faith in your director to let him shoot the movie the way he sees it, and we certainly did. He's done a spectacular job. It doesn't hurt that he's a very funny guy, one of the top sitcom directors in the world."
Prague's jeweled architecture escaped Europe's wars virtually unscathed. Baroque palaces, Gothic bridges and art nouveau statues still abound. Nestled in the Vltava River Valley, the capitol of the Czech Republic is known as the city of 100 spires. "One of the great things about it," remarks Oscar-winning production designer Martin Childs (Shakespeare in Love), "is that it offers an exceptionally photographic skyline with fabulous silhouettes and dramatic profiles, lots of towers and turrets. It's dazzling."
Though the city has become a hub for feature film production, few of the stories photographed there are actually set in Prague. Most often it doubles for other cities like Paris. Opting to present the city's architectural heritage for what it is, the Chasing Liberty filmmakers took full advantage of features such as its serpentine streets in which to shoot the high-speed chase where Anna and Ben first elude her security detail. The pair cross the 14th-century Charles Bridge, where the river offers a perfect reflection of a nearby illuminated castle on that particularly clear and beautiful night.
Perched atop Wenceslas Square, the neo-Renaissance National Museum features high vaulted, fresco-lavished ceilings, marble columns and floors, which the production used for a diplomatic banquet for the First Family and 200-plus extras decked out in evening gowns and tuxedos. As Cadiff explains, "We wanted the film to capture a sense of grandeur and elegance in showing places that the president and his family would likely spend their time, the settings in which Anna has grown up."
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