Thanks to The ODI for the following info and photos of the scene we reported last week about the German Flashback/Forward and the snowy settings. Here are the first pictures from that.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about several sources reporting that the LOST crew was filming a scene with Naveen Andrews (Sayid) in Germany on a snowy day.
Several fans reported seeing snow on the streets of Hawaii, street signs and store fronts in German, the German Flag waving plus Naveen Andrews on set doing several takes of him walking in and out of a building.
Thanks to a loyal ODI reader, today we all get to see the very first set images from that shoot!!
Unfortunately for all of you Sayid fans (myself included) we do not have any shots of him yet, but these are still some great images of the set and everything that was being described by the fans that day.
The set actually looks like a government building and could be a FB with Sayid looking for Nadia or perhaps a FF....??
Well here are the pics....enjoy and namaste....
Source: The ODI
Hawaii goes German
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19 Comments:
lol germany <3
the blue/white flagg could be from bavaria... the ugliest part of germany xD
the shops on the last pics say
"vintage carpet" and "flower shop"
soooo cool to see them in germany :D
What sense does that one shop's name make? 'Weinlese' actually means 'grape gathering' or 'grape harvest' and that doesn't have particularly much to do with old, possibly expensive carpets... I take it that the name of the place was indeed supposed to be Vintage Carpet, but whoever came up with that translation failed to use their dictionary correctly and then double-check the translation. Also, I don't think a German traffic sign would use 'h'to indicate that it was referring to a certain time of day, it would (at least as far as I remember) rather say 'Uhr'. Also, flower shop isn't spelled Blumen Laden, but Blumenladen. Aside from that - yay for Lost in Germany, but boo for Bavaria. It really isn't the most fun part of the country.
it could be because the flashforward is so new and exciting, but right now I'm just hoping that all of the flashes are forwards. With a few notable exceptions:
Basra incident
Tampa Job
Deck-Collapsing incident.
I can't really think of any more that I deem necessary, other than on-island flashbacks.
i´m from germany and although they seem to make some minor mistakes with the translation. i´m just psyched that some part of the lost mythology is taking place in germany!
p.s. yes bavaria sucks:P says everyone i germany except bavarians
Why is it that in the public interntational mind, Germany==Bavaria? And those poor Bavarians are trying so hard to not be considered German... ;-)
On the serious side: Weinlese could just be the surname of the store owner. And the parking sign seems okay. This is what a usual German parking sign looks like: http://www.wdsh.de/ideas-to-go/Parkschild.jpg
If Weinlese were the surname of a carpet shop owner it'd be named Teppich Weinlese, i think it's rather the other way around (but still doesn't make much sense and sounds weird ^^)
While Blumen Laden is not the correct spelling it is in fact an error that can be seen often nowadays in Germany and isn't too bad.
But if that store was really intended to sell vintage carpets somebody screwed up on the translation =D
@ratti - do a google search for "Schmidt Bäckerei" or "Müller Fleischerei"; "Kinder-Schokolade" also comes to mind; so the surname may very well come first. But since I don't know what a vintage carpet is (have never heard the term, and I'm too lazy to look it up), this may very well show a lack of translation skills, but one that can at least be explained away... :-)
Why do they feel the need to make it so plainly obvious what country the scene is set in by overusing stereotypical props and flags? Several scenes in Flashes just looked silly, for example...
Maybe it's an official building, so the flags might be ok. Of course you wouldn't see any flags on the average German builing, unless it's a football cup. ^^
I hope they don't zoom in on "Weinlese Teppich"... That sounds ridiculous. :P "Blumen Laden" is ok, that's a common spelling mistake even in Germany, and maybe just a design decision, since the two words are devided by a logo.
OMg Bavaria :D:D:D
And spelling mistakes... lol.
BUt in the ENd... LOST in Germany :D:D:D:D
Couldn't Weinlese-Teppich (note the dot between the names that could be a stylized hyphen) both be German names, so that could just be a store ? For example, "Barnes & Noble" (the bookstore chain), if it was fictional, people (presuming the first word was mispelled) could be wondering "Noble Barns? that makes no sense !"
Maybe Sayid has a comedic encounter with Wilhelm Weinlese and Otto Teppich, two wacky Bavarian haberdashers. "Doch, das Homburg makes joo look much less like a torturer, Herr Jarrah !"
Yay, Lost in Germany. :-)
BTW
I once read "Metzgerei Made" on a van. Of course "Made" was the name of the owner. Otherwise it would have translated "Butcher's shop maggot". And maggots in a butcher's shop... I don't know. But it was so funny.
@ gregdean: Well, that COULD be names. But I've never met anyone with such a name yet... I don't want to be called "carpet". ^^
What gets me is the Blumen Laden logo, it's BF, where as a more logical logo would be BL (assuming that it isn't important and the logo was just made of letters chosen in haste for the sake of decoration)...
maybe BF = back flash... flashback? lol
as for the teppich shop, i'm willing to let it slide, i'm assuming weinlese is the owner's name. no biggy. The parking sign looks fine as well.
I lived in bavaria (frankenland actually) during most of 2006 and never saw the national flag UNTIL the world cup started. so the only thing that is really out of place for me is the german national flag. The bavarian flag is pretty ubiquitous though, definantly on govt buildings.
but again its no big deal, its a tv show, most viewers probably appreciate the obvious cues.
Well, first of all, I'm Bavarian.
The flag is wrong. The diamonds are way too big. Non-bavarian people usually wouldn't notice it, so it might be another small error like the misspelling of "Blumenladen".
I wonder what's supposed to be in this building.
I don't believe Teppich and Weinlese are names either... I've lived in Germany for five years and I've met people with the stangest names (translated as salad, fucker and stuff)... but carpet and wine... noope. :D
Even if "Blumen Laden" was spelled "Blumenladen", it would stll seem odd to me. I mean, most stores have some kind of NAME. How many stores doyou know that have entirely descriptive names, such as "Meat Butcher" or "Dining Restaurant"? That's unnecessarily generic. How about coming up with fake names, such as "Blumen Lustig" (to keep with the aforementioned theme of odd storeowners' names)?
But yeah, unless it's a government building or set during the World Cup, the German flag seems kinda misplaced. And since when do government buildings have stores on floor level?
The Flower shop looks like it has a stuffed animal lion in the window..cute! To me the magic carpet place looks like it would be a western union office because of the colors. I don't know why we expect the names of businesses to make "sence" after all we have "Timberland" "Starbucks" and "Victoria's Secret" they don't make sence to translate. By the way - What is that red-poster in the corner? :)
This looks like they're trying to show Sayid in relatively recent Bavaria.
I'm reminded of Tom's WW2 Luger and also the possibility that the LE character Thomas Mittelwerk may be introduced to the storyline officially.
Ich liebe Bayern!