# Where Is This Bizarro Business Park(?) Residential Area(?) Film Set(?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 10, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017 "2022-10-10T14:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/1 "2022-10-10T14:57:01Z")
In [this video](https://youtu.be/3bRgp_GSyBQ?t=92), the performer is traversing through … well, I don’t know what. It looks like it would be a business park or perhaps residential development in any American city, except that the streets are too narrow for vehicle traffic. It’s also devoid of people, as well as litter, greenery, graffiti. Is it a film set or something? When the camera glimpses the outside of the development, it looks like a European or possibly American city with greenery and hills. I also thought I caught the faintest glimpse of the American flag, but then again, I’m American and I freedom so hard that I may have just wanted to see one. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/2 "2022-10-10T15:19:21Z")
It could be entirely CGI. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/3 "2022-10-10T15:19:51Z")
Ninja’d by less than 10 seconds. I was going to say CGI. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/4 "2022-10-10T15:21:10Z")
There are one or two people you can see on the sides if you watch it slow enough. Based on the architecture, I would guess that it’s the center strip of a senior living community. I thought it was CGI at first but watching it at 25% speed changed my mind. It has a sort of hotel/apartment look but the wide throughfare and wide steps makes me think senior living. Also he keeps going up and down the same strip aside from spinning circles in the gazebo looking structure. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/5 "2022-10-10T15:28:49Z")
I doubt it’s CGI- it is a GoPro promotional film after all. I have a feeling it’s somewhere in Europe; the longboarder (Lofti Lamaali) and drone pilot (Finkcy) live in Paris. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/6 "2022-10-10T15:30:35Z")
[Here’s a longer version of the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKrLmNZy9Mg). Looks like it was filmed in [Les Arcades du Lac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Arcades_du_Lac) in France. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/7 "2022-10-10T15:34:54Z")
There’s something very [de Chirico](https://galleryintell.com/artex/mystery-melancholy-street-giorgio-de-chirico/) about it. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/8 "2022-10-10T15:35:50Z")
What the heck kind of drone is the camera supposed to be attached to? Those sudden changes in direction barely seem possible. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/9 "2022-10-10T15:46:59Z")
Probably something like [this.](https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv) The thing is, they’ve got ultrawide lenses. So if you take a superwide video, you can crop it down to one part and then pan across real fast. It will look like it’s moving faster than it actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/10 "2022-10-10T15:51:49Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > you can crop it down to one part and then pan across real fast. It will look like it’s moving faster than it actually is. That makes a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/11 "2022-10-10T15:54:59Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > the streets are too narrow for vehicle traffic I take it you’ve never been to Europe? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/12 "2022-10-10T16:19:28Z")
Looks like a college campus to me. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/13 "2022-10-10T17:17:54Z")
In fact I have, but this location seemed too new to be plagued by impossibly-narrow streets. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/14 "2022-10-11T01:01:38Z")
The streets aren’t intended as vehicle thoroughfares; note the ornamental fencing in the middle of the junction that he passes through. They are for pedestrian circulation and (possibly) necessary access for service vehicles. The complex is served by an underground carpark to which all the apartments have access via interior stairwells. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/15 "2022-10-11T04:31:03Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > n [Les Arcades du Lac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Arcades_du_Lac) Hmmm, not far from Versailles. There appear to also be some of these “streets” in the buildings to the west of the lake building that look more like the area being video’ed. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/16 "2022-10-11T11:33:49Z")
There’s a [360° view on Google Maps](https://goo.gl/maps/JLxFwzLACNfaWmv67) from the central intersection that’s shown towards the end of the video. ---
**Author:** ![hellasketchy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hellasketchy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellasketchy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/17 "2022-10-16T08:18:24Z")
There is a similar housing development on the other side of Paris near Disneyland: > **[Noisy-le-Grand and its Postmodernist Architecture via @fotostrasse](https://fotostrasse.com/architecture-in-noisy-le-grand/#.Y0u-IS8RqLc)** > > Located in the outskirts of Paris, halfway between the French capital and Disneyland, Noisy-le-Grand looks like a piece of science fiction… ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-bizarro-business-park-residential-area-film-set/973017/18 "2022-10-16T14:43:53Z")
Noisy. Love it. Not a great way to advertise a housing development (in English-speaking places, that is).