Islands Glorified by Movies
Published: March 17th, 2009
Alex Bolton asked:
Famous movie which became popular in many countries or even all over the world can also bring popularity to the place where it was made. Usually such things happen to island where great movies are often made. For example recently it became known that Penelope Cruz came to Lanzarote for two weeks for film shooting. Of course this event attracted people’s attention to this event.
One more island which became well-known thanks to movie and Penelope Cruz is Greek island Kefalonia. It is a place where movie “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” was made with Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz.
Malta is already familiar with such experience, because as of today a lot of famous blockbusters were films on Malta. It is possible to say that landscapes and views of Malta were greatly shown in well-known movie “troy”, 2204 where main characters were played by Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom. The most part of film was made at Fort Ricasoli. This fort was created by Knights of Malta in 17th century. In 2004 one more film was made on Malta. It was called “Different loyalty” with Sharon Stone. It demonstrates scenes of Fort St. Elmo in Valletta. Next movie which was made on Malta was “Alexander” with Collin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. There we can enjoy marvelous vies of Grand Harbor of Valletta. In 1995 pirate film “Cutthroat Island” was also made on Malta. It includes vies of Mdina, Fort St. Elmo, Dingli Cliffs. Night scenes of “Gladiator” with Russell Crowe were made outside Vittoriosa at Couvre Port.
So, it is very possible that soon Lanzarote will achieve the same level of fame and popularity as Malta has already done.
Famous movie which became popular in many countries or even all over the world can also bring popularity to the place where it was made. Usually such things happen to island where great movies are often made. For example recently it became known that Penelope Cruz came to Lanzarote for two weeks for film shooting. Of course this event attracted people’s attention to this event.
One more island which became well-known thanks to movie and Penelope Cruz is Greek island Kefalonia. It is a place where movie “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” was made with Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz.
Malta is already familiar with such experience, because as of today a lot of famous blockbusters were films on Malta. It is possible to say that landscapes and views of Malta were greatly shown in well-known movie “troy”, 2204 where main characters were played by Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom. The most part of film was made at Fort Ricasoli. This fort was created by Knights of Malta in 17th century. In 2004 one more film was made on Malta. It was called “Different loyalty” with Sharon Stone. It demonstrates scenes of Fort St. Elmo in Valletta. Next movie which was made on Malta was “Alexander” with Collin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. There we can enjoy marvelous vies of Grand Harbor of Valletta. In 1995 pirate film “Cutthroat Island” was also made on Malta. It includes vies of Mdina, Fort St. Elmo, Dingli Cliffs. Night scenes of “Gladiator” with Russell Crowe were made outside Vittoriosa at Couvre Port.
So, it is very possible that soon Lanzarote will achieve the same level of fame and popularity as Malta has already done.





























