Crime scene in hotel

• 30 Apr, 2009 • Catégorie: Hotels and stars •

How can you imagine a hotel other than a cozy nest, a cocoon in which to take refuge after a hectic day, often in an unknown city? When we look closer, hotels are often harassed by the directors. Violence, death, ghosts, anything could happen…

Riviera Hotel Casino, Las Vegas
Martin Scorcese chose Las Vegas as the setting, to shoot his film “Casino” with Robert de Niro and Sharon Stone in 1996. Against the backdrop of mafia, violence, money and power, Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) leads the main-de-fer of a hotel-casino, The Tangiers, where a high-flying thief (Sharon Stone) enters into the scene. He falls in love with her, the trouble begins … In fact, Tangiers has never existed, it is the Casino Hotel Riviera Las Vegas.

Great Northern Hotel, Twin Peaks
The naked body of a young schoolgirl aged 17 was found wrapped in a plastic on a lake at Twin Peaks, a small town in Washington State. The FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Mc Lachlan), is deployed to conduct the investigation. Thus began the successful television series “Twin Peaks” director by David Lynch (Mulholland Drive), broadcasted in the 90s. The Great Northern Hotel is now the Salish Lodge & Spa.

Hotel des Bains, Venice
Less violent, but much more disturbing, “Death in Venice” by Luchino Visconti (1971) presents Aschenbach, an old composer in need of inspiration that moved to Hotel des Bains in Venice, in order to regain his creativity. Do not arrive to do so, comes a young Polish, Tadzio, who is fascinated until death. This controversial film at the time of its release, is still a great example of psychological violence that man can exert over its peers.

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Marqué comme: Great Northen Hotel, Hotel des Bains, Las Vegas, Riviera Hotel Casino, Twin Peaks, Venice

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