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Chasing Liberty Full Production Notes "Every family has a rebel... even the First Family."
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 Chapter 7: The Berlin Love ParadeOf all Anna's adventures, nothing better exemplifies her newfound sense of freedom and self-expression than the Berlin Love Parade. Part street concert, part demonstration and all party, the Love Parade is a wild, festive, music-driven rave originated in 1989 by a popular DJ to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall and allow his listeners to express their support for tolerance and understanding between people and nations. An immediate success, it became a yearly event, drawing crowds worldwide and growing from an original 150 participants to a million and a half at last estimate. Imagine Mardi Gras, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Times Square on New Year's Eve and set it to a thumping techno beat. Add pink feather boas, bikini-clad girls on stilts, silver-painted guys in bustiers and saris, tattooed shaved heads, butterfly costumes and lots of fake fur and that's just a glimpse of the "anything goes" atmosphere the Love Parade inspires.
Reproducing the Love Parade was, as Kosove acknowledges, a major feat. "Martin Childs and Ashley Rowe did an extraordinary job. Then our second-unit provided terrific footage and aerials of the actual Parade," which, coincidentally, was taking place simultaneously in the German capitol while the production (for practical reasons) staged their own version in Prague's Letna Park.
"We built a stage, hired a lot of Czech extras in fantastic costumes from Rosie Hackett and brought in DJ Jeremy Healy to really get the crowd going," says Parfitt. Healy, one of the most sought-after DJs in the UK and known worldwide for his sell-out electronica/dance club music compilations, his high-energy arrangements for runway fashion shows and his flamboyant performances at top entertainment spots around the globe, added unquestionable legitimacy to the scene. "When you see it, it's hard to believe it's staged. It looks like documentary footage."
Quirky costumes made for a colorful bohemian display and a fun assignment for costume designer Rosie Hackett, whose work encompasses a range of productions from feature film to videos, romantic comedy to Shakespearean drama. Her first step was to raid her personal collection to come up with such unique treasures as outfits worn by Annie Lennox in music videos. Additionally, Hackett staffed a workshop with local artisans in Prague for a month to create a stunning array of costumes for the approximately 1,500 extras.
Czech art students built floats covered with balloons, streamers and rainbow flags. The production art department constructed facades for some of the structures to allow revelers to climb atop them and, as Childs puts it, "do irreverent things." Giant projection screens featured larger-than-life images of the dancers, as is done at the actual parade.
Even Jeremy Piven found himself momentarily caught up in the illusion. While enjoying some down time between his scenes he happened by a television, caught live CNN coverage of the Berlin Love Parade and thought he was viewing footage from the day's shoot. "I said, `wait a minute, they're showing dailies on CNN'!,'" the actor recounts. "It was really disorienting for a few moments. Actually, now that I think of it, ours looked like more fun."
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Destination London 