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Apparently a Bollywood horror film is shooting in Poundbury, Dorset
It's not about a creepy old king who looks in people's windows though
i hope it's like RRR where the indian characters unleash a lorry full of wild animals on all the white people in the british raj except the white people are just the royal family
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Poundbury, Dorset.
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Poundbury, on the outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England.
oh are we shitting on poundbury? That’s my favourite thing to do! it’s an absolute hell hole. no road markings to make people drive slower and to supposedly make it feel ‘quaint’ so people drive like absolute maniacs, massive statue of the queen mother in the middle of the car park/roundabout/pedestrian crossing/??? (someone actually did drive into it a few months ago), Charles is legally allowed to walk into your house whenever he wants if you live there, and you’re not allowed to hang out your washing outside or repaint the outside of your house without royal permission cause it spoils the Look. and it’s not even cheap rent. you can find the real estate rules for living there on Google it’s absolutely batshit. parasitic little holiday village I hate it so much.
i didn't know people had such strong feelings about poundbury i'm losing my mind
i don't care if this is all made up, every sentence in this ask was like a cricket bat to the shins
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Milton Keynes has the decency to look like it was built in the 1960s and thus isn't particularly creepy. Poundbury was built in the 1980s to Charles's idea of an 'Ideal English Market Town'. Like it was built over centuries. We have plenty of the real deal in Dorset and they are quite nice places with good atmosphere.
Poundbury, by contrast, feels... off. Kinda like Disneyland, but at least Disneyland knows it's artifice? I'm not sure if Poundbury does. It desperately wants to be the real thing. My family drove through it on a sunny day and there were no people on the streets, even though it showed signs of habitation. My in-laws claim they know people who live there. It's like those Stephen King towns where there's a Dark Secret™, except it's not in Maine. I'm pretty sure it eats people.
Also apparently Charles liked to tour it and peek in people's windows to ensure they were living proper Prince of Wales-approved lives. This is not part of the sinister aura of the town, its just another disturbing thing about that place.
yes when i first got the anon and poundbury was described as a new town i assumed it would be a mid-century job like MK! that's what i meant when i said i liked new towns!
but you're totally right, this is a weird georgian mock up as if someone went to bath once and tried to redraw everything from memory but couldn't remember... anything particularly well. i'd say that it's a good setting for a horror film but. it's been done before (you could argue that even don't worry darling plays around with a similar concept)
as for peeking in people's windows...................................... what? if we have any followers living in poundbury please tell us more
The New York Times did a story on Poundbury a few days ago (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/arts/design/king-charles-architecture-poundbury.html), where it mentions rules such as not being able to paint your house a new color "without the consent of His Royal Highness." Takes me right back to the 15th Century. Speaking of which, the photos, with their people-less streets bathed in cold light, are pretty unsettling and remind me of those "ideal city" paintings from the Renaissance.
Anyway, if you think Poundbury is bad, the story later mentions that property developers are now copying its look but without any of the thinking that went into it -- which, just, ugh.
the poundbury saga continues! i know it's not serfdom but it has the same energy as serfdom if you get what i mean
i was about to say "i can't believe they're copying it" but actually i can
No, Milton Keynes has more life. It has the concrete cows, Poundbury genuinely looks unsettling; It's like those suburban towns you see in horror movies or horror games. Everyone there's in a cult.
yeah looking at photos of it now like... if you told me that no one actually lived there and that it was all just a truman show style simulation i would believe you
