El Royale hotel

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El Royale hotel is a fictional, seedy mid-century motel straddling the California–Nevada border that serves as the tense, central location for the neo-noir thriller film "Bad Times at the El Royale."

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El Royale hotel canonical 2
El Royale 1
El Royale Hotel 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional hotel
fictional location
film setting
aestheticDescription seedy
appearsIn Bad Times at the El Royale
architecturalStyleDepicted mid-century modern-inspired roadside motel
associatedWithTheme chance encounters
moral ambiguity
secrets and surveillance
violence and crime
borderStraddling California, United States
surface form: California

Nevada
cinematicFunction unifying space for intersecting storylines
countryInFiction United States of America
surface form: United States
createdForWorkBy Drew Goddard
diegeticFunction single-location ensemble setting
featuredInGenre neo-noir thriller film
fictionalStatus fictional
fictionalUniverse Bad Times at the El Royale universe
firstAppearanceYear 2018
hasFeature distinct California and Nevada sides
divided jurisdiction between two U.S. states
hidden corridor for surveillance
isolated roadside location
lobby
multiple guest rooms
retro mid-20th-century decor
two-tone floor marking state line
hasOnscreenRepresentation constructed film set
locatedInFictional California, United States
surface form: California

California–Nevada border
Nevada
mediumOfAppearance feature film
narrativeRole central location
primary setting
settingStyle mid-century
settingType motel
timePeriodDepicted late 1960s
toneContribution creates tense atmosphere
enhances suspense
usedFor character confrontations
clandestine surveillance in the film’s plot
criminal activity in the film’s plot
flashback sequences
hostage situations
visualMotif faded glamour of mid-century Americana
hidden observation windows
state line running through building

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Darlene Sweet associatedWithLocation El Royale hotel
this entity surface form: El Royale Hotel
Miles Miller employer El Royale hotel
this entity surface form: El Royale
Billy Lee settingOfAppearance El Royale hotel