Notes from a Chadds Ford Redneck
about 
  "The Village"
or
 "what's life like with Disney and Shyamalan in your back yard?"

 

Having a Look

So after a search on the web I see some  fan sites.......

hmmm.....They all say they reviewed a stolen script that's about a village that's terrorized by creatures, 19th century, Amish, watch towers, red slashes, crappy dialog.......

and some of them think the script may be bogus because its so crappy....

 

So we go have a look-see......

 

Taking a walk one nice fall day....to the place is just over the hill....easy enough to get to (and someone told me what days they are not back there shooting) ..hey---there is something in that field....and its a watch tower!!!!  ...the script is true!!!!!  towerfar.jpg (43826 bytes)
whole_set.jpg (109355 bytes)  .....so we wander on back into the fields I used to walk in all the time. WOW!!!.... They built a whole village back here!!!!

Wandering Around

We figure...hey---lets just walk right in....have a look around...we can always say we got lost hiking. We had a grand old time...looking in the windows .. looking at all the props lying around....rocking in the rocking chairs. It was neat... a lot of the buildings were complete inside and out.

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The shed not to be used

 Looking at all the plaster of paris stone work....I can see what the rubber molds were for. (all these pics are from another visit to the set. I didn't take a cameras the first time since we were sure we would get caught...and I didn't want my camera confiscated.)
The "south" watch tower. They built two of these towers....other was on the north side. This tower overlooks a local housing development (boy those people had an incredible view of the production.). No real woods on the other side of it. When the leaves were "up" it probably looked more like the edge of a "woods". I guess they will "sweeten" that up in the film. Some of the corn stalks have fallen down revealing the steel post they tied them to.

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The greenhouse.
A nice shot of the village with the sheep in the foreground.

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The livestock poll-barn. All these structures were real and functional. They kept all the animals on set (from what I could see, cattle, sheep, and a dog) at this barn and in these fields around it.
A "creatures" view of the village.

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Hey.... a black box!!!!! 

Actually some junk left lying around by a gaffer. 

Disclaimer
Please don't do this at home. Only to be 
attempted by experienced local rednecks.

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