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SHOOTING OF THE FILM BROKEN EMBRACES LANZAROTE

NATURAL SETTINGS

LOS GIGANTES CLIFFS TENERIFE

Clash of the Titans , by Louis Leterrier, allows us to see what the Teide, an in- active volcano in the centre of the is- land of Tenerife and the highest peak in Spain, might look like when active. Teide National Park was used to rep- licate the mythological underworld in which much of the film takes place. The dizzying Los Gigantes Cliffs , lo- cated in Santiago del Teide, were also the scene of the titanic struggle be- tween Perseus (Sam Worthington) and the god Hades (Ralph Fiennes). Other scenes were filmed at different loca- tions in the Canary Islands archipelago, such as Maspalomas Dunes , in Gran Canaria , and Timanfaya National Park , in Lanzarote . Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard were seen in the old quarter of the Vegueta district, in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, during the filming of Allied , by Robert Zemeckis, who sought to recreate Casablanca in World War II. Several scenes were filmed in Alameda de Colón boulevard, Núñez de la Peña street and the squares of Plaza de Cairasco and Plaza Ingeniero Manuel Becerra. In order to recreate the Sahara desert, the producers decided to use the landscapes of Corralejo Nature Reserve and La Caldera de Arrabales crater , both in Fuerteventura .

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