![]() They all knew the famous scene from De la Iglesia’s film where the main characters run away from the Beast, suspended from the Schweppes sign on the Capitol building in Plaza de Callao. “Oui, oui,” was the response from the MCyP and the students got down to spending their Christmas watching the films shot in Madrid that the French Ministry of Education had selected, even going so far as to create a map and a 53-page report on all the film locations. Last November the students read in EL PAÍS that the Madrid, Ciudadanía and Patrimonio (Madrid, Residents and Heritage - MCyP) association was organizing a tour of the capital and wrote to ask if they would be able to organize something similar for them based on their exam topic for this year of “Madrid interpreted through its cinema.” Jesús is one of the volunteers who responded to a request from 10 Bordeaux students preparing for l’agrégation, France’s highly selective government exams, to become teachers of Spanish culture. Jesús Rodríguez takes out his tablet computer and, to confirm it, shows her a sequence of Alex de la Iglesia’s fantasy action comedy in which they can see the same enormous building and same imperial staircase. “Isn’t this where they filmed the escape and fight sequence in The Day of the Beast?” asks a girl with a light French accent. ![]() 72 Gran Vía in the heart of downtown Madrid a group of young people, all aged around 25, enters an enormous building. The Capitol building on Gran Vía, as featured in The Day of the Beast. ![]()
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