Palms in movies

[Walter John]

This topics was raised a few years ago, time to put it up again for input. I was inspired by watching the movie, "The Thin Red Line" once again, what a great flick.

Here's the locations of this film

Bramston Beach, Queensland, Australia

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Daintree, Queensland, Australia

Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Honiara, Solomon Islands

Mossman, Queensland, Australia

Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia

San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

This still is the very last scene in the movie before the credits roll up.

More from "The Thin Red Line"

[Walter John]

from a monster flick.

[Mark_NoVA]

There's "Monster Island" from the Godzilla movies! Supposedly located in the Ogasawara Islands, home of Clinostigma savoryanum. How's that for palm & movie trivia?

[paulgila]

wal that is a GREAT movie & chock full-o' palms!!! anyone who hasnt seen it should see it ASAP!

[Tad]

the killing fields has some great shots....and dith pran just died not tooo long ago....kinda sad considering, fare well to the king also has great jungle shots!

[Ken Johnson]

I mentioned this before buy again, "It's a Wild Wild Wild World." (How many Wilds?)

[Walter John]

I mentioned this before buy again, "It's a Wild Wild Wild World." (How many Wilds?)

And how exactly is this related to palms in movies ?

And what does "I mentioned this before buy again" mean ?

[Walter John]

the killing fields has some great shots....and dith pran just died not tooo long ago....kinda sad considering, fare well to the king also has great jungle shots!

Here's a couple from "The Killing Fields", and what palm species do we see ? Remember that it was filmed in Thailand.

[John in Andalucia]

When Stanley Kubrick filmed "Full Metal Jacket" in 1987, they recreated Hue City, Vietnam, on a disused gasworks site near the River Thames, in East London, England. They also planted a couple of hundred palms brought in from Spain at a cost of $30,000.

[JimR]

On the non-war movie front, I might add the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Mutiny on the Bounty (or was is just called Bounty; the one with Mel Gibson).

[TikiRick]

I mentioned this before buy again, "It's a Wild Wild Wild World." (How many Wilds?)

I think Ken is actually referring to a 1963 Comedy Movie entitled "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!" It all centers around four palm trees. A real classic and funny as hell. You have to see it to believe it.

[Walter John]

Filmed in Belize, here's some stills from "The Mosquitoe Coast", looks like Attaleas.

[paulgila]

"the mission" with bobby deniro had some cool palms,too.i think i even spotted a chelyocarpus...

[Kris]

Have you seen the movie Beverly hills cop....? CIDP & Washy's In abandunce..

And the new bond movie..the african location & holiday resorts are full of palms,especially the cocos nucifera..

love,

Kris

[DoomsDave]

the killing fields has some great shots....and dith pran just died not tooo long ago....kinda sad considering, fare well to the king also has great jungle shots!

Here's a couple from "The Killing Fields", and what palm species do we see ? Remember that it was filmed in Thailand.

Looks an awful lot like La Habra to me . . ..

[paulgila]

i was watching "full metal jacket" a while ago & was disappointed when i realized that they filmed all the parts that are supposed to be vietnam in england!!! they are a few sad looking CIDPs that they rolled in but no tropical plants at all! bad decision,kubrick!

[John in Andalucia]

Yes Paul, some nice colourful Pinangas would have brightened up the battlefield!

If I were you, I wouldn't bother with this movie either..

[sur4z]

How about the best surf movie ever...north shore.

[paulgila]

how can you beleive its SE asia with NO cocos!?!?!?!

[John in Andalucia]

how can you beleive its SE asia with NO cocos!?!?!?!

Well, I thought the "ladyboy" looked quite athentic.

[paulgila]

that was a "boy?"

[BS Man about Palms]

Yes Paul, some nice colourful Pinangas would have brightened up the battlefield!

If I were you, I wouldn't bother with this movie either..

But John, "TwentyNine Palms, California" looks EXACTLY like that. I believe its named after a Washingtonia Oasis.

Very desolate though.

[The Germinator]

the killing fields has some great shots....and dith pran just died not tooo long ago....kinda sad considering, fare well to the king also has great jungle shots!

Here's a couple from "The Killing Fields", and what palm species do we see ? Remember that it was filmed in Thailand.

Looks an awful lot like La Habra to me . . ..

I thought those looked like Guada -la- washies to me.

[tjwalters]

Seems to me I once saw an old movie featuring a desert oasis surrounded by Cocos. Only in Hollywood.

[cagary]

No photos, but the TV show LOST has lots of great palm shots in Hawaii.

There was one funny scene where Locke was supposedly in Santa Monica in California, but the trouble was he was standing in front of two beautiful Areca catechu! Don't think they do too well in southern CA.

Any one remember that episode?

[Geoff]

best palm movie ever: Proof of Life- so many South American palms including hundreds of mature Atteleas... awesome scenes!

[Kostas]

The palms at the captions of ''Killing fields'' Wall provided most probably are Livistona rotundifolia...

Au Pair 3 has some GREAT palms(plenty of Cocos,Corypha,BIG Copernicia,unusual Syagrus and others i dont remember right now but more or less,palms in every scene of the movie!) and was filmed from what i heard in the movie in CR...Man you know immediately you can have that look in your town unless you actually live in the tropics!

[Carlo Morici]

Give a look at "Ice Age 3"- I have watched it today (in 3D!) .

Below the ice there is a lost world with tropical vegetation and of course some dinosaurs. There are some really nice settings with fancy cartoon palms, somehow reminiscent of Phoenicophorium, Lodoicea, Licuala, Chambeyronia and Ptychosperma. Some palms have an unreal texture, typical of aroids. There are even some blue cycads with cones, and some gigantic, weird "hybrids" of banana trees and tree ferns. Bromeliads too... and a mammouth-eating carnivorous plant

Carlo

[SubTropicRay]

Forrest Gump had some potentially fake SE Asia palm scenes but had palms nonetheless.

[newcal]

I'm suprised no one thought of Arnie the govenor of California Schwarzenegger in PREDATOR ,when they mow down half the Costa Rican rainforest trying to kill the predator. I feel a little sad about all the palms that were destroyed shooting that scene! "If it bleeds,we can kill it"...."What's got Billy spooked?"....Cheers Mike Green (NEWCAL)

[Kai]

Don't forget Jurassic park. Not the best movie ever, but there's a lot of running around through an island near Costa Rica which gives some very nice images. Here's a few I could find.

[Palmateer]

Yeah, let's not forget the uncountable number of bad movies with plastic palm trees, often trying to recreate the Tropics in

Southern California, yuck!

Seems to me I once saw an old movie featuring a desert oasis surrounded by Cocos. Only in Hollywood.

[garrin]

I agree "Proof of Life" is a great movie for palmophiles, partly because of the rarity of a lot of the palms shown --Parajubaea cocoides and some Ceroxylons among others.

[garrin]

I hope this bumps the topic up where it will be seen -- it is quite an old thread. Last night (July 21, '09) was the season opener of the 'Torchwood' series on BBC America. It is filmed and takes place in Cardiff, Wales. And close to the opening scenes is a healthy Phoenix canariensis just beginnig to trunk, growing near the waterfront in the central city.

Surprising, but certainly possible I guess, in that maritime influenced northern locale!

[Darold Petty]

Here is a cross pollination from the Ohana Nui section,

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19050