Filming 'Clash of the Titans' at Dinorwig - July 2009· Page 3

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blondin
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15 years ago

#41

wasn`t the film `Willow`filmed there also?Just above the power station entrance.Always remember being introduced to Dinorwig as `Mordor`.

davel
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15 years ago

#42

"blondin" wrote:
wasn`t the film `Willow`filmed there also?

It was - in 1988. There was a castle built at the east end of the quarry near the road through the site.

Dave

AndyC
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15 years ago

#43

There are a couple of pictures in the Archive Album.

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Get over it.

AndyC
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15 years ago

#44

Since I am now at work, and not at home with a wriggling baby in one arm, I can appear to be less lazy (to those who matter) and link:

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Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.

Vanoord
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15 years ago

#45

For those who haven't watched Clash of the Titans yet...

It's out on DVD and is in the cheap aisle in the supermarkets now.

It's got a lot of recognisable bits of Dinorwic in it.

And.

Er.

It's a terrible film.

But it's got lots of recognisable bits of Dinorwic in it :thumbup:

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

martymarty
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15 years ago

#46

I bet theres lots recognisable bits of Dinorwic in it 😉

nid oes bradwr yn y ty hwn

Vanoord
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15 years ago

#47

There are.

Other than it being a generally poor film, there's a massive suspension of belief when you see people ambling up and down inclines in the Quarry and standing around with the hills of Snowdonia in the background.

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llay101
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15 years ago

#48

I was going to take my Daughter there last year but the quarry was closed due to filming.

When we got to car park through the village there was security stopping people going in.

We actually saw the 2 camels in the film being led from a marquee into the quarry!!

Didn't see the the big Scorpions tho, they must have been filming them another day :lol:

Rwy'n hoffi tyllau mawr

blondin
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15 years ago

#49

just watched the film.Leapt out of my seat seing those scorpions on the inclines!Always did have at the back of my mind that this place was the underworld!I have a photo of the C incline used (pre scorpion) on the album somewhere.

blondin
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15 years ago

#50

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Personal-Album-606-Image-45228/?order=desc

Strangely Brown
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15 years ago

#51

The big scorpions look kind of handy for climbing up to quarries but the characters seem to be struggling to explore an open quarry, wonder how they would fair on the Creosor Rhosydd through trip.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.