Get Carter was on the curriculum for university student Emily Walton once Gateshead's controversial town centre car park caught her eye.
Emily has planned a transformation of the 1960s concrete structure which was the site of a key scene in the Geordie gangster film featuring the exploits of Michael Caine character Jack Carter.
She was looking for inspiration for her final-year project as one of the first graduates of Northumbria University's new interior design degree course.
And the car park - loved by some and hated by others - fitted the bill.
Emily, 24, of Sandyford, Newcastle, said: "I like its raw beauty, although not many other people seem to do and I think it will be a shame if it comes down. It is from a particular brutalist period of design and a lot of these buildings are now being demolished."
Her vision for the car park includes using the top floor with its panoramic views as a stylish bar, called Carter's, with a club, named Jack's, on the floor beneath.
Both floors would be furnished with cubes made from different materials which could be used for a range of various activities.
In the original plans of architect Owen Luder, the top floor was to have been a restaurant - and that was also the case in the film.
But Emily decided against a restaurant-with-a-view on the grounds that the Baltic centre on Gateshead Quayside already fills that role. Her design also features curved windows to make the most of the views, a space-age lift and sky gardens featuring silver birch trees, opening onto a terrace alongside Carter's.
Emily said: "The car park provokes extreme reactions in everyone who sees it. Some see it as a blot on the landscape which should be torn down while others revere it as an example of brutalist architecture.
"I believe that with all the development going on in Gateshead, such as the Sage and Baltic, a redevelopment of this nature could really put the heart and soul back into the town centre."
Emily envisages office and others uses for the lower floors, also based on her cube system. As part of her work she watched Get Carter for the first time.
"I had heard of the film and I loved it," she said.
She was also helped in her researches by the Twentieth Century Society, which has Luder's original plans.
Emily is one of 20 students on the new course, which includes design, architecture and other aspects of the built environment.
Their efforts will be on display at the graduate show from tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Squires Building at Northumbria University.
After the show, Emily plans to offer her designs to Gateshead Council. A council spokeswoman said: "Our aspiration has long been to develop the site of the car park and Trinity Square, in which it stands."
