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written as a discount electronics store near Times Suare which is also selling arious other types of cheap noelty goods. ut Times Suare ow can we do this in Italy ? y first thought was to not be in a store because of the amount of period goods that would be needed, and the second was for it not be an electronics store. e had already done that on American Gangster. After much scouting in both Rome and ilan, had an idea of the only place it might work, which was to do a street market on ia isani outside the entral Train Station of ilan, because of its architectural style and scale which was ery merican s highrise with wide streets and sidewalkslike ew ork. There also happened to be an active construction site on the corner of the adacent block which was surrounded by a precast concrete wall, and helped to give some teture and also opportunities for adding grati to the end of the market site. The building area had first wanted to use was an empty bank, and the adacent property was run down and full of gratiperfect ut unfortunately, as the movie gods willed it, the local building authority had noticed this unusually dilapidated building and decided it was time to renoate, and to begin their work on eactly the date that the Art Department had wanted to start our preproduction work. The location managers, led by Elisabetta Tomasso and working with the local agency Faces and Places, begged and pleaded our case but we were turned down at. The local authorities had committed by contract to a start date with no eibility. oweer, the permits for parking the crew trucks had been given and restricted street parking had been already granted, so we looked at the net block and found it was occupied by another bank, only this one was in fine condition and actiely doing a thriing business. iraculously, the bank manager was a film buff and gae us permission in spite of the fact that we wanted to turn his lovely building into a sleay street market. ot only that, but we wanted to smother his nice clean building with posters and grati. The rt irector for this set, occo eraolo, assured him with a small sample section that with a coating of late rubber with a little soap added into it, that we could peel the late skin off the stone columns and faade without any harm to his building, using it as both a protective barrier which could be painted and aged, but also as a teture coat to roughen the surface of the smooth stone. e agreed and we were able to start work immediately and turn his crisp oce building into a piece of old ew ork . C. VIA PISAN, MILAN. DISCOUNT MARKET LOCATION. D. NEW YORK 42ND STREET DISCOUNT MARKET. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION. E. NEW YORK 42ND STREET DISCOUNT MARKET. (WIP) C D E