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Allies of Art

Top: Granger examines documents with French museum curator Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett).
Bottom: Members of the team study up before they embark on the mission. Portraying various
characters are (from left) Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Damon, Hugh Bonneville, John Goodman
and Jean Dujardin.

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film to feel vital and new and fresh, not
like a museum piece. We also wanted a
very rich look; we wanted it to feel
almost painterly because it's a film about
art."
Papamichael also watched Steven
Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (AC
Aug. '98) because The Monuments Men
features a Normandy landing scene, too.
However, when the landing craft's gate
opens and the Monuments Men jump
out, all is quiet; the fighting has ended,
and nearly everybody has moved on. "I
think [Spielberg's crew] shot three or
four weeks doing that sequence, and we
shot ours in three hours," Papamichael
says with a chuckle.
Made on a budget Heslov
describes as "less than $70 million," The
Monuments Men began 70 days of principal photography in March. Filming
was done mostly in Germany on location and at Studio Babelsberg. Berlin
stood in for Paris, with the 19th-century
war memorial the Neue Wache



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