Leonardo DiCaprio’s first leading role after Titanic basically made him the biggest movie star of his generation was The Beach, Danny Boyle’s story of an American tourist who discovers a secret idyllic island near Thailand.
Tourists will have to find another movie beach to ruin now.
The film, based on a novel by a young Alex Garland, didn’t make anywhere near as much money as Titanic, but its $144 million worldwide was good enough to turn its title locale, Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh island, into a tourist attraction for decades.
‘Overworked and tired, all the beauty of the beach is gone.