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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Living in Toronto is surreal for this stuff because easily recognized areas are regularly used as stand ins for pretty much every North American city at one point or another. One of the few movies to really portray rural Alaska right was 30 Days of Night, and like that one about the serial killer with Nic Cage since it was partly filmed there.
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My favorite 'wait I know that place' was watching the SpongeBob movie and during the final live-action chase scene at the beach they passed the bank I used to work at in Atlanta. That and hanging out at an artist co-op late one night walking through a courtyard and seeing this huge 1920's looking courthouse building in a place I don't remember ever seeing a huge 1920's looking courthouse. I'm standing there marveling at this like it was the monolith from 2001 until I walked around back and saw it a movie set for the Hunger Games sequel.
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Someone mentioned Boston subbing as New York but in a more hyper regional New Englandism, in Kevin Can F*ck Himself, Brockton is standing in for Worcester.
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Jul 7, 2021 14:07
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Len posted:Supernatural has an episode set in Canton, Ohio at a wax museum. There isn't a wax museum in Canton and as far as I know the only one in this godforsaken state is out in Ashland and Bible themed The 24 episode set in Kidron OH (which was presented as a moderate sized city and which in reality may have at some point since I last visited gotten their first traffic light) also comes to mind.
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Jul 7, 2021 14:13
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Last Chance posted:So he shot in a location that was cheaper than going to the real location? How is that the "opposite" of shooting in a cheaper (with tax breaks) location instead of the real location? Masquerading a place in your own country as a foreign place is the opposite of: Spermando posted:fly your crew to a foreign country to pass it off as your own country.
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Jul 7, 2021 14:32
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Spermando posted:Yes, but I assumed there was a reason why you'd fly your crew to a foreign country to pass it off as your own country. I didn't consider tax breaks. Sometimes you do it because you are a legendary director with tons of clout and you hate flying yourself, so London will have to do as a substitute for New York.
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There's shots in Eyes Wide Shut were Tom Cruise is walking on a treadmill in a London studio with footage of New York rear projected behind him.
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Jul 7, 2021 15:09
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Last Chance posted:It would have been really expensive to actually film on location in the Matrix though, so it’s understandable that they used another city to stand in for Matrix City. If it were that expensive how come Reboot managed it for four seasons huh?
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Another thing to factor into shooting cities besides tax breaks is how much the local government is willing to accommodate a film crew. Closing streets for filming is expensive and messing with traffic is something that pisses off voters something fierce, so you need a city where the electeds think they'll gain more from bringing Hollywood money (and "prestige," for whatever that's worth) to their city than they'll lose from angry citizens caught in traffic jams/business owners who lose foot traffic.
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Jul 7, 2021 15:30
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FreudianSlippers posted:There's shots in Eyes Wide Shut were Tom Cruise is walking on a treadmill in a London studio with footage of New York rear projected behind him. Kubrick had someone go out and take pictures of nearly every doorway in London scouting for a set for the scene where Tom Cruise meets the hooker during that filming process. The journalist Jon Ronson was invited to go through Kubrick's home archive after he died and found box after box of photos, including one of his own doorstep. The guy never threw anything away. At one point he was considering doing a Napoleon biography and even though he never started filming there was a room of filing cabinets containing detailed descriptions of nearly every day of Napoleon's life - where he was, what he was doing according to court records etc.
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docbeard posted:The 24 episode set in Kidron OH (which was presented as a moderate sized city and which in reality may have at some point since I last visited gotten their first traffic light) also comes to mind. I lived in Wichita for 9 years, and I can safely say that they did not film portions of Planes Trains and Automobiles there. At least the airport is generic enough to be passable, I did see a different movie (can't recall the name) where ICT is portrayed as a massive multi-level airport with escalators and glass railings. In reality it's dinky as gently caress, with one level, and just has a big parking lot.
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Some directors aren’t allowed to come to the US or they’ll be arrested
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Whybird posted:If it were that expensive how come Reboot managed it for four seasons huh? That's because it was set in mainframe city, which is in Colorado.
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BgRdMchne posted:Some directors aren’t allowed to come to the US or they’ll be arrested Like that scumfuck Roman Polanski.
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DreadUnknown posted:Like that scumfuck Roman Polanski. I hate that that's a controversial opinion in some circles.
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I'm gonna have a controversial hot take here: Chinatown isn't that great. Or at least not great enough to excuse child rape.
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Asterite34 posted:I'm gonna have a controversial hot take here: Do you have something in mind that would be?
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Budapest has stood in for late 19th century to mid-20th century Paris a few times and it absolutely works since it really does look more like Paris in that period than modern Paris does. (No Eiffel tower tho) Budapest has lots of slightly shabby art nouveau-style apartment blocks. It's a giant pity that that shitbag Orban has taken over there because I love Budapest so much but can't justify going back there until they get a less horrific government.
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Crespolini posted:Do you have something in mind that would be? I guess I would know it if I saw it
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Asterite34 posted:I'm gonna have a controversial hot take here: I’d modify this to suggest that it is great, but the direction is low on the list of reasons why.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:04
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Meanwhile here I am waiting for yet another hilarious failed take on the Netherlands.. Looking at you Spiderman Far From Home
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DeafNote posted:Meanwhile here I am waiting for yet another hilarious failed take on the Netherlands.. Not a movie, but I always found this hilarious:  The Netherlands is quite known for having no mountains whatsoever. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 19:43 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Jul 7, 2021 19:35
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I think I've mentioned it before, but one of the most accurate portrayals of Montana in visual media is a loving mecha anime called Argento Soma. They even got the state police uniforms and the license plates right.
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FreudianSlippers posted:There's shots in Eyes Wide Shut were Tom Cruise is walking on a treadmill in a London studio with footage of New York rear projected behind him. For The Mandalorian ILM developed a new technology where locations are created using a giant LED wall on a set and it is able to adjust quick enough that they can sync the display to the camera movement in order to fake depth.
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docbeard posted:The 24 episode set in Kidron OH (which was presented as a moderate sized city and which in reality may have at some point since I last visited gotten their first traffic light) also comes to mind. I haven't been through Kidron in almost a decade, but I checked Google and as of the most recent picture taken this year it does not have one
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DreadUnknown posted:One of the few movies to really portray rural Alaska right was 30 Days of Night, and like that one about the serial killer with Nic Cage since it was partly filmed there. The weirdest Alaska movie is Insomnia because some of it is actually filmed in Alaska (and the rest is filmed in parts of BC that at least resemble Southeast Alaska) but the parts of the state where the movie was filmed don't look anything like the part of the state where it was actually set. There are no glaciers or lush forests anywhere near the Arctic Circle. lavaca has a new favorite as of 05:51 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Oh drat yeah I forgot about Insomnia, there are a shitload of forests but yeah the Interior is all taiga scrub nightmare mosquito hellscape.
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DreadUnknown posted:Oh drat yeah I forgot about Insomnia, there are a shitload of forests but yeah the Interior is all taiga scrub nightmare mosquito hellscape. Lived in Fairbanks for 3 years, you’re underselling it 
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Is there a recommended part of Alaska to move to, if one were so inclined?
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Yes, many parts. Southeast and Southcentral is gorgeous fjords and inlets and coastal boreal rainforest. The interior is a nest of lakes and streams with massive mountains bounding either side. The amount of wild, untouched wilderness is unmatched.
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90s sitcoms loved having someone trying to tutor the bad boy character in English or make him cultured, and then get flustered and interrupt him when he said “Eyyy, I love poetry! ‘There once was a man from Nantucket…’” and I never knew what the actual poem was. I’ve tried to look it up before, and never could find the actual poem that everyone apparently knew. Presumably it it involves the phrase “gently caress it,” but I think the results I found said it ends with “And as for the bucket, Nan tuck it.” I considered trying to look it up again before posting this, but then I thought, nah.
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Dr Christmas posted:90s sitcoms loved having someone trying to tutor the bad boy character in English or make him cultured, and then get flustered and interrupt him when he said “Eyyy, I love poetry! ‘There once was a man from Nantucket…’” and I never knew what the actual poem was. I don't think there is an actual poem that's being referred to, it's just that it's obvious where a rhyme for "Nantucket" is going to end up.
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Rascar Capac posted:I don't think there is an actual poem that's being referred to, it's just that it's obvious where a rhyme for "Nantucket" is going to end up. The schoolyard version I remember was "with a dick so long he could suck it"
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Spoilered if you'd like to keep the mystery: There once was a man from Nantucket Whose dick was so long he could suck it He said with a grin as he wiped off his chin/wiping cum from his chin "If my ear were a oval office I could gently caress it." I have no idea where I learned it.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:16
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It's a common beginning to limericks because it will end with gently caress it or suck it
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Orphaned punchlines used to be a common thing to let the audience know that a character was supposed to be witty without actually showing them saying something funny. Like the one I saw in basically everything growing up, "so I said to him, 'That's no X, that's my wife'!".
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Yeah, not sure if it's an actual "proper" poem as much as its just an example of a Limerick which always follow that "there once was a man from..." format with that particular meter and A/A/B/B/A rhyme scheme. There's likely loads of slight variations.
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BioEnchanted posted:Orphaned punchlines used to be a common thing to let the audience know that a character was supposed to be witty without actually showing them saying something funny. Like the one I saw in basically everything growing up, "so I said to him, 'That's no X, that's my wife'!". You wouldn't think it would come up as often as it does
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Jul 8, 2021 20:05
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...Scooby Doo can doo doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter.
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The one I grew up with was: There once was a gal from Nantucket Who sailed 'cross the sea in a bucket But when she got there They asked for a fare So she lifted her skirt and said "gently caress it"
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