Game of Thrones and The Ennis House

For a little while now, like many of us, I’ve been moderately obsessed with Game of Thrones. A few weeks ago, as I was watching Season 5,  I was struck by the resemblance between the temple of Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons, and the interior of one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s  houses here in Hollywood. So I did some research…

Most would be tricked into believe that these scenes were shot on location somewhere in a distant temple in Egypt. In this day of CGI and screen-replacements virtually anything can be made to look real. It is thus hard to figure some of these things out, but by the look of it, this seems to be in fact the famed Ennis House.

For those of you reading this in Los Angeles, you need look no further than the hills of Los Feliz. You have probably seen this house a million times… When you look directly at the Griffith Observatory, right below it there is a giant mayan-looking temple that sticks out like a sore thumb… That, friends, is the  temple of Daenerys Stormborn.

I am not 100% positive on this claim, as the floors are wooden, the ceilings are vaulted, and the windows are different. However, it is my contention that these things were modified using VFX. In a later scene, shot in the “exterior” we can appreciate the relief of FLW’s concrete blocks. Again, the back of the temple, was probably added with CGI.

What do you guys think?