Hi, Im a filmmaker living in Germany. I want to shoot a short and I need an apartment in the style of leon. Think is I don't know how to describe it when I talk to people and I can't always send a pic. My question is, is there a name to that kind of apartment? does it exist somewhere else??
Thank you in advance.
You could say a rundown apartment. Then describe with color you want the walls.
shareThe apartment is a hybrid. The scenes inside it were shot on a set in France, some exterior and hallway shots were from New York, and design elements, like the graffiti on the walls of Mathilda's family's apartment, were reflections of the little boy's family's apartment in Cassavetes' Gloria, from which a fair amount of the plot came as well.
If style is your principal goal, I suggest mining the style elements in the anime series Noir, which was consciously built on Besson's tropes in this film. About the only thing that is exactly the same is the plant, but the style reference in the way the characters interact, their isolation from others, their minimal lifestyles with guns, and their use of locales works very much like Besson's films.
The following link has descriptions of different types of apartments. I'm not sure of the layout in the film, but I think it was a 2 bedroom of some sort.
If you mean style, not type, I do not think I can help there.
http://www.nakedapartments.com/guides/nyc/beginning-your-search/types-of-apartments