East of Eden (film) Although set in early 20th century Monterey, California, much of the film was actually shot on location in Mendocino, California. Some scenes were filmed in the Salinas Valley. Of the three films in which James Dean played the male lead, this is the only one to have been released during his lifetime and the only one Dean personally viewed in its entirety. The film, along with "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant", has been named by the American Film Institute as one of the best 400 American films of all time. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in
Game of Thrones title sequence the title sequence as a crow's flight from King's Landing to Winterfell, however the production team at Elastic thought the idea too flat, and came up with the idea of using a 3-D models within a sphere that represents the world of the show. The sphere was used to obviate the question of what might lie beyond the horizon of the map, and the whole sphere lit by the sun in the middle. According to Angus Wall, the head of title design firm Elastic, the title sequence had "a concrete function in the world of the show, in that it