# movies containing maps **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107 "2012-02-17T05:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/61 "2012-02-22T02:06:32Z")
The title sequence of the 1980s version of _Repo Man_ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/62 "2012-02-23T16:24:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There’s the famous Traveling Red Line maps from the Indiana Jones movies. Did those originate with Indiana Jones movies? I always assumed they were a nod to a device in much older films. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/63 "2012-02-23T16:29:44Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Did those originate with Indiana Jones movies? I always assumed they were a nod to a device in much older films. I know I’ve seen the device in older films, but I can’t think of any beyond the ones named. A note on the “computer-generated” contour maps in **Megaforce** , a supremely and wonderfully bad film. What’s interesting is that, when the film was made, they actually built a model, which was filmed and composited in as a 3D computer projection (like the “hologram” of Princess Leia in _Star Wars_), but nowadays it’d be easier to simply generate it via CGI than going to all that trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/64 "2012-02-23T17:02:15Z")
_The Emperor’s New Groove_ made a joke of the dotted line on a map trope. The two groups were chasing each other and the map showed the pursuit by a line of footprints. One of the characters saw this on the map and then looked behind them and saw they were in fact leaving a line of red footprints in their path. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/65 "2012-02-23T17:12:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > What’s interesting is that, when the film was made, they actually built a model, which was filmed and composited in as a 3D computer projection (like the “hologram” of Princess Leia in _Star Wars_), but nowadays it’d be easier to simply generate it via CGI than going to all that trouble. They did the same thing in _Escape From New York_. This [shot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Escape_From_New_York_Wireframe.jpg) of what was supposed to be a computer map of Manhattan was actually a model. In 1981 it was cheaper to film a model then it would have been to make an actual computer simulation. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/66 "2012-02-23T18:10:02Z")
During the first and final scenes of Forbidden Planet, Jadway and the crew are using that cool three-dimensional model of the ship in space, but there’s clearly an old-fashioned map spread out on the desk. Bonus: at the very end, Robbie the Robot becomes the ship’s “astro-navigator.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/67 "2012-02-23T18:13:36Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > _Diamonds are Forever_ has a map near the end detailing Willard White’s empire. “Baja? I don’t own anything in _Baja_!” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/68 "2012-02-23T18:16:33Z")
Also from the Bondiverse: _The Spy Who Loved Me_ had the big electronic map on the bridge of the supertanker showing the locations of the submarines. _OHMSS_–Blofeld’s map showing the locations for distibuting the bio-weapons. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/69 "2012-02-26T03:48:52Z")
The Mummy has the map to Hamunaptra. Until it gets burned by the Medjai at the museum and then they leave it behind on the burning boat any way. Evelyn, “Oh no, the map!” Rick, grabbing her, “I’m the map.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/70 "2012-02-26T20:10:54Z")
**The Way** shows the Camino de Santiago path. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/71 "2012-02-26T20:49:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _The Emperor’s New Groove_ made a joke of the dotted line on a map trope. The two groups were chasing each other and the map showed the pursuit by a line of footprints. One of the characters saw this on the map and then looked behind them and saw they were in fact leaving a line of red footprints in their path. Mentioned _way_ back in post #13. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/72 "2012-02-26T21:49:21Z")
Damnit, I was going to mention the Goonies too. X-Men: First Class has an incidental map, when X reads Frost’s and sees what Shaw’s plans are. The same area of the world shows up a couple of times in different map forms later in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/73 "2012-02-27T02:42:08Z")
In Burt Lancaster’s _The Train_, a key plot point centers on the French Underground fooling German guards on a train as to the location and direction of the train by changing station signs, etc. There is a closeup of the map as a German officer marks the name of the first German town as they enter (he thinks) Germany, and then the camera quickly pans back across the map in closeup to show the name of the town near Paris where the train actually is located. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/74 "2012-02-27T10:25:10Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > **The Way** shows the Camino de Santiago path. Where in the world is Camino de Santiago?\* \*Cue Rockapella… ---
**Author:** ![GeneD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GeneD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeneD)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/75 "2012-08-05T17:58:38Z")
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