Movie Real Estate in which you'd like to live

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I thought of this while watching Play Misty For Me the other night. I decided I really liked Clint’s Big Sur Ocean View pad with center patio and garden. Nothing too fancy.

Then I wondered about which house / apartment / whatever from a movie I would most like to live in. I’ve narrowed it down to the following:
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[li] Pierce Brosnan’s house in Martinique from The Thomas Crown Affair[/li][li] The Disco Volante from Never Say Never Again (since it’s nicer than the DV from Thunderball)[/li][li] James Caan’s Kauai vacation home from Honeymoon in Vegas[/li][/ul]

So which movie residence would you most enjoy? (For the sake of this thread I’ve obviously forgone thinking about my current job, house, etc. Let’s just presume we can afford to live there).

2

The Tennenbaums’ brownstone from The Royal Tennenbaums was the first thing I thought of. If not that, then the house from A Tale of Two Sisters, a Korean movie. You can tour it here.

3

Bag End in Fellowship of the Ring, provided someone shrunk me down to Hobbit-size.

4

I am almost hobbit-size (five feet tall) and I’ve been wandering around for several years muttering, ‘What did they do with the little Bag End? I wants it, I wants it, my preciousss.’

But, aside from that-- the movie sucked badly, but I still want the house from the more recent version of ‘The Haunting.’ You know, except without the evil.

5

Bag End? I’d rather live in Isengard.

Rivendell would be a cool place to vacation.

6

Give me Cary Grant’s home overlooking Nice in To Catch A Thief*. And while I’m at it, a cool little Alfa Romeo to tool around those little winding mountain roads.

7

Buy it from Peter Jackson. According to the FOTR EE Director’s Commentary, Jackson was so enamored of the Bag End built for the movie that he talked New Line into letting him keep it – he packed it up and apparently it’s in storage near his home in New Zealand. He talked half-jokingly about finding some hill somewhere and burrowing space out for his own real-life hobbit hole.

8

The Millenium Falcon

Allright, so that’s not strictly speaking real estate

I’ll get me coat…

9

Rivendell. I would so live at Rivendell.

Or on Naboo, I wouldn’t mind living at the lake retreat.

10

I think the glass house in the 2002 remake of Thirteen Ghosts (sans ghosts and Satanic device, of course) is really really neato.

But I’d hire someone else to do the windows, of course.

11

I’d like the lovenest on top of the elephant in Moulin Rouge.

I’d also like Nicole Kidman’s body and hair while I’m at it.

And her wardrobe.

And, uh, Ewan McGregor.

12

My first thought was the ‘town-stone’ in Panic Room. A huge tri-level townhouse/brownstone in Manhattan. How much would that cost?

13

In one throwaway scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, John Cleese happens across Castle Anthrax, which is filled with comely young women who feel themselves in need of a good spanking.

Yeah, I can picture taking some extended vacations there.

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The house in “The Glass House”, the farmhouse in “Critters”, Tara in “Gone With The Wind”, the foster home Astrid lives in with Renee Zellweger in “White Oleander”.

15

the Fight Club house on Paper st, before its done up even.

Minas Tirith doesnt look too shabby either (before they start flinging huge pieces of masonry at it obviously)

The Shopping mall in Dawn of the Dead . I always wanted my own fully stocked abandoned Mall.

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For one’s college years, the Delta House (prior to the fraternity’s eviction from campus, that is) from Animal House. Some of the bedrooms are small, but, oh, the atmosphere, the cameraderie…

But when you get a little older and a little more successful, a pad like Gwynneth Paltrow & Michael Douglas’ apartment in A Perfect Murder is more apropos.

17

Xandau, from Citizen Kane.

18

Kevin Kline’s place in Life As A House will do. I’d enjoy waking up to that view.

19

And a horny Mary Steenburgen lives across the road.

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That would be Xanadu , of course. My dyslexia seems to be flaring up.