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Follow in the footsteps of James Bond, Holly Golightly, Tyrion Lannister and more with Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s Guide

The Establishing Shot says check out the Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s GuideI f you are a reader of The Establishing Shot or a follow us on Flickr or Instagram you will no doubt know that we love film and we love travel and we definitely love combining our favourite past times. So we have been fortunate to be able to do a fair share of set jetting around the world visiting locations used in films.

    We have a bucket list of places we wish to visit bringing us closer to some of our favourite films, capturing a magical place in time and memory as well as get some insight into the thinking underpinning the creative decisions made to bring some of those magic moments to screen.

     We are always on the lookout for more tips and advice on visiting film related locations so were quite chuffed when Lonely Planet gave us a sneak peek of their upcoming book Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s Guide which focuses on – you guessed it. Film locations you can visit around the world.

     Although we didn't actually get to see the completed book rather a digital version of it, the Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s Guide is a gorgeous looking book with a focus on high quality photography.

Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s Guide Cover
Lonely Planet’s Film and TV Locations: A Spotter’s Guide Cover © 2017 Lonely Planet [+]

Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics

Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer is a big book written by Vern. In Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer Vern writes about “Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics”.

I think a more appropriate title for this tome could have been “The Tao of Vern” or “The way of the Blunt talker and straight shooter: Who covers a lot of films but doesn’t quite give the films of Bruce Willis as many pages as you would hope seen that his name is in the title of the book".

But first some background:

From urbandictionary.com: Yippee ki-yay, motherf*cker!

Catchphrase used by Bruce Willis in all of the Die Hard films. It only has context in the first movie but he says it in all of them. The reason the phrase has context in the first one is as follows:

Main terrorist Hans: Mr. Mystery Guest are you still there?
John Mcclane: Yeah I'm still here
Hans: Who are you exactly? Someone who watched too many action movies as a child and thinks he's John Wayne, Rambo, Lewis Stevens?
Mcclane: Actually I was kind of partial to Roy Rogers myself. Always liked those sequin shirts.
Hans: Do you really think you can stop us Mr. Cowboy?
Mcclane: Well, Yippie-Ki-Yay MotherF*cker!
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