History Main / MonumentalView

Does not generally involve MonumentalDamage. Related to TheEiffelTowerEffect and SceneryPorn.

Does not generally involve MonumentalDamage. Related to TheEiffelTowerEffect.

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* Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi starts in her first home, where she's playing the piano in a room of her house with an excellent view of the Golden Gate Bridge... one that would be somewhere in the Presidio, which is park land and office buildings.

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* The view out of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'''s apartment of the Space Needle is actually a photograph taken from a hill that didn't actually have any residential buildings on it when the series was made. As of 2014 there are now apartment buildings on Queen Anne hill, the source of the photograph.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Boone's hotel room in Sydney was apparently suspended in the air above Sydney Harbour, as that is the only way he could have had that view of the Opera House through his window.
* The trope is mentioned and lampshaded in ''Series/FawltyTowers'', when a guest complains about the view of her hotel room not being interesting:
-->'''Basil''': Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain?
* Late night shows and news shows tend to have cityscape backgrounds that have little to do with their actual location and are sometimes composite images.

* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Boone's hotel room in Sydney was apparently suspended in the air above Sydney Harbour, as that is the only way he could have had that view out of his window.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini says his apartment is "not much", but it has a huge window with a spectacular view of the Paris skyline, which it doesn't seem like he could have afforded as an unsuccessful busboy.
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* The view out of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'''s apartment of the Space Needle doesn't exist. There's no such apartment with that view.
** [[{{Defictionalization}} There is now...]]

The characters aren't just passing it and it is not an EstablishingShot is giving you a quick look at the identifying feature- the characters actually have a view from a perspective that it is impossible or extremely unlikely for them to obtain, usually from their alleged residence.

* The view out of ''{{Frasier}}'''s apartment of the Space Needle doesn't exist. There's no such apartment with that view.

* In ''{{Lost}}'', Boone's hotel room in Sydney was apparently suspended in the air above Sydney Harbour, as that is the only way he could have had that view out of his window.

* Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi starts in her first home, where she's playing the piano in a room of her house with an excellent view of the Golden Gate Bridge... one that would be somewhere in Golden Gate park, which is, well, park land and office buildings.

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* [[WebVideo/JonTron Rare Studios]] is apparently based inside of Big Ben.

** StarTrekOnline did a great job fixing the problem. The Academy really is on that narrow strip of land (what we saw in the show was a trick of angles) and the main building goes into the cliffside under the road next to the Bridge and then goes up to a leveled portion of HQ where Janeway's office is in Nemesis.

* In ''{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini says his apartment is "not much", but it has a huge window with a spectacular view of the Paris skyline, which it doesn't seem like he could have afforded as an unsuccessful busboy.

* This gets invoked with Devil's Tower in CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind. It's a cool, weird monument and the focus of much attention throughout the movie, but the clearing/landing pad at the base of the tower in the climax does not/could not exist.

* StarTrek is all over this one; in every iteration, Starfleet academy is on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. There's maybe a couple hundred acres of usable land in view of the bridge in RealLife (and not all together), the rest being steep hills and canyons. Unless the entire area was leveled, the facility is not possible and even with leveling would be crammed on a narrow strip of land next to a major thoroughfare.

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* Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li starts in her first home, where she's playing the piano in a room of her house with an excellent view of the Golden Gate Bridge... one that would be somewhere in Golden Gate park, which is, well, park land and office buildings.

* Star Trek is all over this one; in every iteration Starfleet academy is on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. There's maybe a couple hundred acres of usable land in view of the bridge in RealLife (and not all together), the rest being steep hills and canyons. Unless the entire area was leveled, the facility is not possible and even with leveling would be crammed on a narrow strip of land next to a major thoroughfare.