With its blinking “E,” the signage was initially installed a few blocks away in 1998. (If you want to visit the original location of the Empire, you’ll have to travel to San Francisco.) Empire is the name of the hotel where the character played by Kim Novak resides. This is the work of Glaswegian artist Douglas Gordon, paying homage to the English director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. Gordon has hung the piece backward to challenge the viewer to decipher what is real and what is a fabrication. But there is another connection to old Hollywood that may go unnoticed by the untrained eye.Īppropriately positioned down a dark alley just off the Trongate, is a neon illuminated sign spelling out the word “Empire” in reverse. Scotland’s largest metropolis has been a stand-in for Philadelphia in 2013’s World War Z starring Brad Pitt, and more recently served as the backdrop for Gotham in the closing scene of The Batman (2022). Though over 5,000 miles separate the Land of Make-Believe and Merchant City, they share similarities, especially when it comes to creating movie magic.
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