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From: bjf@utcs.UUCP (Bruce Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Seeing movies shot where you live
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 16:18:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 16:18:00 1985
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Reply-To: bjf@utcs.UUCP (Bruce Freeman)
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Something I find very distracting in a movie is recognizing local landmarks
that are in reality miles apart but are placed in the movies as if they were
part of one building. Someone in my office saw STARCROSSED on tv and said that
he found it very distracting watching the characters go up the steps of one
building and emerge at the door of another building that is 5 miles away. Do
other people have this problem? I remember that when I saw SILVER STREAK that
it was amusing to see the train leave Toronto ("Los Angeles") at the beginning
of the movie and then crash into Toronto's Union Station ("Chicago") at the
end of the movie. Many more movies are made in LA and New York than Toronto,
do people in those cities have trouble getting involved in the movie because
they recognize where people are? I find that I have no trouble watching a movie
set in Toronto where the movements are logical as far as a local is concerned
but once the characters start using those teleport booths ...
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Bruce Freeman	University of Toronto	{decvax|ihnp4|utzoo}!utcs!bjf