The Deer Hunter

[DeerHunter]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used? I have a website at http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/...eer_Hunter2.htm

which has all the stills from the movie. This will help me out considerably with my pre-planning.

Kind regards

Roly

p.s does anyone know off other movies which were filmed in Bangkok?

[canuckamuck]

Almost all new movies are filmed in Thailand. The location is generally from the back of a theater The footage is then formated for DVD and sold for 100 baht.

But seriously, I think a lot of vietnam war genre flicks were filmed here, it wouldn't be a long search on google.

[BADBRAD]

Almost all new movies are filmed in Thailand. The location is generally from the back of a theater The footage is then formated for DVD and sold for 100 baht.

good one!

[peter991]

Leonardo Di Caprio's The Beach was filmed at Phi Phi Island.

Peter

[percy2]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used? I have a website at http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/...eer_Hunter2.htm

which has all the stills from the movie. This will help me out considerably with my pre-planning.

Kind regards

Roly

p.s does anyone know off other movies which were filmed in Bangkok?

Just had a look at your web site.

I'm not sure there is a river in Thailand called the "Kiwi" , are sure it isn't the Kwai as in another reasonably famous film about Thailand though made in Sri Lanka.

The idea of a river Kiwi did give me a chuckle.

Cheers

[Jimjim]

1. Rambo IV which has yet to be released -- up north in Chiang Mai area

2. Bangkok Dangerous with Nicholas Cage which has yet to be released -- in places like Soi Cowboy

3. The Killing Fields

4. Alexander with Joaquin Phoenix

5. American Gangster -- small scene(s) in Chiang Mai

6. Air America

7. Blackbeard

And many others . . . .

[teacup]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I

Ohh aren't you a brainy one. Be far this has to be the cleverest excuse I have heard so far

[endure]

According to IMDB it's the River Kwai:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/locations

[chinthee]

I think several Jean Claude VanDamme action movies were shot in Thailand. Go to the imdb website and they have all kinds of trivia about that.

[Thanyaburi Mac]

I think several Jean Claude VanDamme action movies were shot in Thailand. Go to the imdb website and they have all kinds of trivia about that.

Hundreds of movies made here.  Just do a google for:  movies made in thailand

Here's just one reference.:  

http://www.thaistudents.com/movies/list.html

Mac

[percy2]

Almost all new movies are filmed in Thailand. The location is generally from the back of a theater The footage is then formated for DVD and sold for 100 baht.

But seriously, I think a lot of vietnam war genre flicks were filmed here, it wouldn't be a long search on google.

If you search IMDB for Bangkok as a location it comes back with 157 films.

Notables include

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)

Deer Hunter, The (1978)

Killing Fields, The (1984)

Rambo III (1988)

Heaven & Earth (1993)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

Beach, The (2000/I)

City of Ghosts (2002)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

Deux frères (2004)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Cheers

[chinthee]

How bout Bridge over the River Kwai - absolute classic. Not sure how much filmed here though.

[percy2]

How bout Bridge over the River Kwai - absolute classic. Not sure how much filmed here though.

sure it isn't the Kwai as in another reasonably famous film about Thailand though made in Sri Lanka.

Cheers

Cheers

[Jimjim]

Tom Yung Goong

Good fight scenes, though.

[lazeeboy]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used? I have a website at http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/...eer_Hunter2.htm

which has all the stills from the movie. This will help me out considerably with my pre-planning.

Kind regards

Roly

p.s does anyone know off other movies which were filmed in Bangkok?

patpong looks very different now.......

[Nordlys]

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used?

One of our mods, Sabaijai appeared in The Deer Hunter as an extra and he mentioned some of the locations in the film (St. Dcominic school, Sai Yok, etc) in this thread.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=56390

[DeerHunter]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used? I have a website at http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/...eer_Hunter2.htm

which has all the stills from the movie. This will help me out considerably with my pre-planning.

Kind regards

Roly

p.s does anyone know off other movies which were filmed in Bangkok?

patpong looks very different now.......

How does Patpong differ? As I have never been to Thailand, what would I need to look out for apart from the Go Go bars?

[DeerHunter]

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I was wondering if anyone might be able to pinpoint some of the locations used?

One of our mods, Sabaijai appeared in The Deer Hunter as an extra and he mentioned some of the locations in the film (St. Dcominic school, Sai Yok, etc) in this thread.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=56390

Thanks will have a look at the thread

[November Rain]

Part of the Killing Fields was filmed at the Sofitel (previously the Railway Hotel) Hua Hin, about 2 hrs South of Bangkok...

[jEFFREYk44]

The bar scene in "The Deerhunter" was shot in the Mississippi Queen, which became Erotica , which became part of Gold Finger's which I have not been in so I would think it is not the same.

[digitele]

Tom Yung Goong

Good fight scenes, though.

The bit at the end where he singlehandedly takes on that giant of a man and about 100 other caucasians is nothing short of pure nationalist Thai fantasy. It's every Thai man's wet dream.

The film does give us a glimpse into the Thai mentality though; evil Chinese businessmen in league with evil Westerners thwarted by the honest hardworking Thai.

Goebbels would have been proud.

######. That says it all

[seonai]

'James Bond Island' is in Phang Nga Bay OP and I think bits of Apocalypse Now were filmed in Thailand

[A_Traveller]

As suggested if you go to imdb and select location data {see Link} you'll be able to find others.

They include James Bond's Man with the Golden Gun & at short notice {since Vietnam refused permits} Tomorrow Never Dies, also the remake {with Jackie Chan} of Around the World in 80 days.

Regards

PS AFAIK none of Apocalypse Now was shot here in Thailand

/edit +PS //

Edited August 25, 2007 by A_Traveller

[jEFFREYk44]

As suggested if you go to imdb and select location data {see Link} you'll be able to find others.

They include James Bond's Man with the Golden Gun & at short notice {since Vietnam refused permits} Tomorrow Never Dies, also the remake {with Jackie Chan} of Around the World in 80 days.

Regards

PS AFAIK none of Apocalypse Now was shot here in Thailand

/edit +PS //

It was shot in the Phillipines

[JimsKnight]

Correct, and 'The Beach' was mainly shot in Ang Thon' Marine park, Koh Lantra and a wee bit in Phi Phi.

[Goshawk]

The last series of British TV drama 'auf wiedersehen pet' was shot in partly in Thailand. Jimmy Nail & co seen walking down Soi Cowboy was truly inspired..

[Cobalt60]

Yes love, I am off to do some serious research in Patpong.... Good stuff, wish I had thought of it

A trip to Phi Phi is worth it even if not too much was filmed there IMO

[Kimera]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I

Ohh aren't you a brainy one. Be far this has to be the cleverest excuse I have heard so far

Come now ! Ive done research in Patpong many times never needed an excuse, mind now. never did take the wife

Edited August 25, 2007 by Kimera

[Aujuba]

Amazingly I just bought the Deerhunter DVD at Robinson's for 79 baht or less if I remember correctly. It is a legal version too! Sometimes you find good movies in the strangest places!

[DeerHunter]

Hi, my wife and I are taking a vacation in Thailand next year and while we are in Bangkok, we intend to visit Patpong, which was used in the filming location of The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro.

One of my hobbies is finding the filming locations of some of my favourite films which include The Deer Hunter. I

Ohh aren't you a brainy one. Be far this has to be the cleverest excuse I have heard so far

Teacup, my wife has not a clue really, I will tell her I’m going to the museums which will bore her to death and hopefully she won’t wonder why I come back with a smile on my face!