On Thursday morning, we visited Egypt, Tibet, Afghanistan, Israel, ancient Rome, and the Dothraki desert. Or rather, we visited Atlas Studios in “Ourza-wood”. If you’ve seen Game of Thrones or Gladiator or The Living Daylights or tons of other films, you’ve seen their work. (We met one guy who was an extra on all of those and more.) A film maker can create all sorts of “exotic” locales here relatively inexpensively, along with a ready supply of extras to look African/Middle-Eastern/Central Asian. Even being from LA and having the industry all around us, it was still very fun to see this, and I got a kick out of recognizing props and sets from films I’d seen. Like LA, Ourzazate is very much a film industry town.
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