10 Movie Locations That Became Immortalised Thanks To Fans
If you shoot in a real location... they will come.
When you begin shooting any type of movie, there's no telling which lines or moments could end up being cemented into film lore.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had no idea 'I'll be back' would become his go-to catchphrase when he first started strutting around town in a leather jacket and the same can be said of film locations.
It's remarkable to think that certain spots have now almost transendended the very movie which helped them rise to prominence in the first place and it's not hard to see why.
Fans love feeling as though they are a part of the very world they are seeing come to life on screen and if they get the chance to inhabit a place that a famous scene or moment called home, you can bet they won't think twice about doing so.
Some of these locations have benefitted from a boost of pleasant tourism, whereas others have been left permanently damaged by a toxic influx of dream-chasers.
For better or worse and through no fault of the team behind the pictures in question, these locations have become immortalised by an adoring (and sometimes reckless) public
10. Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross Station, London (Harry Potter)
As far as fanbases go, there aren't many who can match the devoted Harry Potter wizarding-worshippers that currently occupy our Muggle world.
As you'd expect - after years of magical universe building and spending so many of its iconic Potter moments in/around British landmarks - the wizarding world is responsible for its fair amount of tourist hotspots.
From the ancient Alnwick Castle in Northumberland (exterior Hogwarts as you and I know it) to Leadenhall Market in London (Diagon Alley) the Potter-verse has firmly embedded itself into the U.K. - but there was one popular site that started it all.
Platform 9 ¾ at King's Cross Station in London.
Ever since Harry first tried to bundle his way through that stoic pillar in the middle of those famous train platforms, fans have gathered in droves to take pictures next to the fabled bricks.
A baggage trolley can now be found lodged into the mystical gateway and - even though Muggles are advised not to attempt to cross over into the magical world - you can't blame the odd one or two for bounding at the wall in hope.
Again, it's probably wise to just take a picture...but who am I to stifle an unrealised witch or wizard.