The video brings to my mind trip to Paris in 1994. It was years before Google and Wikipedia. We had McDonald's Paris free map and lots of places to see. We took metro and stepped off at the station "Bastille". We asked people about Bastille (fortress and the state prison where in 1789 the French Revolution began) as we would like to visit it. We got answers: "It was here, ruined long time ago".
Well, I knew it was destroyed but I was sure it was preserved in some shape.
One man informed us about some remains of Bastille located close to the metro station but as he said 'just few stones not worth walking to see them'.
Another man interfered saying firmly: "Bastille was actually right here. Pieces of its fundations are still to be seen overthere but ... it was exactly here".
Similar situation with the biggest place of Paris, The Place de la Concorde, where during revolution stood guillotine and in only one month over 1300 people were guillotined/beheaded (i.a. king Louis XVI and queen Marie Antoinette). Nowadays thousands of people are walking there everyday without thinking what happened exactly in this place 200 years ago.
Exactly like in the video: same place but in a different time ... Click here to see the video.
The photos below were taken by Christopher Moloney. He takes photos of the actual locations of famous movie scenes. These two pictures are my favourite ones:
sources: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/christopher-moloney-filmography-new-york#/slide=1 http://www.visualnews.com/tag/christopher-moloney/
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