Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Date: 2003
Director: Jan de Bont
Production Company: Paramount

Stars: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Djimon Hounsou
Location(s): Greece, Hertfordshire (England), Wales, Hong Kong, Kenya, Tanzania

Region(s): , ,

Storyline:

Lara finds, loses and attempts to regain an orb which can unlock Pandora’s Box. Is that a good idea? SJ

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Zooming in to Oia Castle, Santorini

Taken from a boat rather than helicopter. SJ

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A wedding is celebrated.

The windmill is a helpful landmark. SJ

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An undersea earthquake interrupts proceedings at Amoudi Harbour below Oia.

More parasols now. SJ

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Lara's pad. Hatfield House, Herts., England.

During a visit to the gardens on its final day of the season - the house already closed for viewing - this was the best angle of the south front I could manage. Also seen in 'V for Vendetta' and 'Shakespeare in Love'. SJ

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As above.

Very off angle, taken from the Woodland Garden which is south-west of the house. SJ

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A fisherman in the Far East is about to be rudely interrupted... Steve Randall has found that the Llyn Gwynant campsite at Nant Gwynant, Caernarfon, Gwynedd hosted the Chinese scenes. Some trickery in he background rather nicely helps to disguise that this is Wales.

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Back to the wedding on Santorini: am I out of sequence here?

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Jolie and Butler enjoy some helmet-free motorcycling in Wales, substituting for China, as it has done before.

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This doesn't look so much like Wales though.

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Hong Kong. Jolie is on the boat in the middle, no really.

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Now Jolie is with Hounsou in the Amboseli Park, Kenya.

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Pretty flamingoes.

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Now this does look exotic. Ol Doinyo Lengai, aka "The Mountain of God.", a still-active volcano in Tanzania. (SR)

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Jolie and Hounsou.