# A Familiar SciFi Movie Set **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695 "2014-03-02T20:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/1 "2014-03-02T20:17:03Z")
This type of set was used in The Incredibles, Brazil, and some of the X-Man movies. You go through a door, and down a long catwalk, at the end of which is a circular platform. The platform is suspended in the middle of an enormous cavernous room. What is this set based on, and has it been used in any other movies? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/2 "2014-03-02T20:41:35Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > This type of set was used in The Incredibles, Brazil, and some of the X-Man movies. You go through a door, and down a long catwalk, at the end of which is a circular platform. The platform is suspended in the middle of an enormous cavernous room. What is this set based on, and has it been used in any other movies? The set in Brazil was filmed at the disused Croyden B power station. I believe this was the first use of this kind of setting, although the use of a wide angle lens from a low perspective to give a sense of forbidding height has a much longer history, going back to at least Leni Reifenstahl’s _A Triumph of Will_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/3 "2014-03-02T20:42:37Z")
Similar deal in the famous scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Darth says: No, I am your father. Yeah, I spoilered that. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/4 "2014-03-02T23:15:35Z")
That type set shows up in _Forbidden Planet_. [Here’s a link to the Krell machinery.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forbidden_Planet_-_The_Great_Machine.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/5 "2014-03-02T23:41:12Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > That type set shows up in _Forbidden Planet_. [Here’s a link to the Krell machinery.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forbidden_Planet_-_The_Great_Machine.jpg) This is what I came in to mention. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/6 "2014-03-03T07:11:53Z")
Here’s a video of the Krell machinery: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HHXfMjp2zqI/hqdefault.jpg "Forbidden Planet: The great machine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXfMjp2zqI) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-familiar-scifi-movie-set/682695/7 "2014-03-03T08:53:59Z")
[Stellar Cartography](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Stellar_cartography_department?file=Picard_and_Data_in_stellar_cartography.jpg) in one of the Trek TNG movies.