When Tony and Maureen Wheeler arrived in Sydney the day after Christmas 1972 after a six month Asia overland trip from Europe they had 27 cents left between them. In late 1973 they started Lonely Planet Publications to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, the story of their trip from London to Australia. From that self-published guidebook Lonely Planet Publications has grown to become the world's largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne. Tony and Maureen still travel for nearly six months each year and Once While Travelling, the story of their life together and the creation of Lonely Planet, was published by Penguin Books in late 2005. The New York Times described Tony as "the trailblazing patron saint of the world's backpackers and adventure travelers."
We asked Wheeler to pick the favorite cities he has visited on his big screen travels.
I'd hate to choose anything obvious, there are so many movies about the same much-filmed cities, New York, Paris, Rome, Venice and so on. So I'm going to try for some less obvious ones:
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The Year of Living Dangerously
Jakarta
Even though none of it was filmed in Indonesia (I think the Philippines stood in), it still captured the hot-tropical-nights flavor of Indonesia with the possibility of somebody running amok (it's an Indonesian word) always in the background.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Coober Pedy
Whether the Australian opal mining outback town with its underground houses qualifies as a "city" might be a spoiler, but this Mad Max episode certainly gets some of that mad, bad and dangerous-to-know atmosphere of the place.
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Blade Runner
Los Angeles
OK, L.A. has been filmed to death, but this is a different L.A., one where it rains all the time, much of it looks like the back blocks of somewhere in Bangkok or Osaka and yet befinned Detroit iron can still make a cameo appearance behind the flying cop cars.
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The Lives of Others
Berlin
I missed pre-Wende (the "turning point" or "change" as Germans refer to when the wall came down) Berlin, but I've heard so many tales about the old East and West Berlin from German friends in Berlin that it's become one of my favorite cities. This film captures the creepy feeling of the old Stasi-plagued Berlin. Then try Good Bye, Lenin! for the new city.
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Arabian Nights
Isfahan
"Isfahan is half the world," the Iranians like to claim and in a film that is as much travelogue as drama Pier Paolo Pasolini could convince you it's true. This is a film that absolutely makes you want to go places — Ethiopia and the Yemen as well as Iran.
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