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What could be more atmospheric than setting fire to a load of coal and wood in your front room? Fireplaces can offer film-makers a handy means of creating ambiance, and can be useful storytelling props, even when there's no fire in the hearth. What could be more atmospheric than setting fire to a load of coal and wood in your front room? Fireplaces can offer film-makers a handy means of creating ambiance, and can be useful storytelling props, even when there's no fire in the hearth.
Here are five film scenes involving fires, fireplaces and chimneys – can you think of any others? Let us know in the comment thread below.Here are five film scenes involving fires, fireplaces and chimneys – can you think of any others? Let us know in the comment thread below.
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
With a dash of floo powder Harry learns how to travel by chimney in the second Potter film, and promptly goes in the wrong direction.With a dash of floo powder Harry learns how to travel by chimney in the second Potter film, and promptly goes in the wrong direction.
2. Gone With the Wind2. Gone With the Wind
A suitable fiery first meeting for Scarlett and Rhett – she nearly brains him by lobbing a vase at the fireplace he's skulking in front of.A suitable fiery first meeting for Scarlett and Rhett – she nearly brains him by lobbing a vase at the fireplace he's skulking in front of.
3. Mary Poppins3. Mary Poppins
Jane and Michael Banks find that a fireplace can be a "doorway to a place of enchantment" when hanging out with Bert the chimney sweep.Jane and Michael Banks find that a fireplace can be a "doorway to a place of enchantment" when hanging out with Bert the chimney sweep.
4. Women in Love4. Women in Love
Some fireside homoeroticism courtesy of Ken Russell, as Oliver Reed and Alan Bates get naked and wrestle in this censor-baiting scene. Read more about it here:Some fireside homoeroticism courtesy of Ken Russell, as Oliver Reed and Alan Bates get naked and wrestle in this censor-baiting scene. Read more about it here:
• How Women in Love's nude wrestling scene romped past the 1960s censors• How Women in Love's nude wrestling scene romped past the 1960s censors
5. Gremlins5. Gremlins
We don't actually see a fireplace in this scene, but we do get one of the grimmest chimney-related Christmas stories ever committed to film.We don't actually see a fireplace in this scene, but we do get one of the grimmest chimney-related Christmas stories ever committed to film.