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From: ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades)
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Subject: Re: Seeing movies shot where you live
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 14:24:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 14:24:58 1985
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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 remember watching the movie "Blue Thunder" in North
Hollywood at the Americana theatre once (a movie which,
incidentally, I walked out on).  There was a scene where there
is a robbery going on at a liquor store at the corner of Vine
and Burbank boulevards (I think).  Well, the entire audience
broke out cheering.  This particular liquor store has a lit-up
clown statue outside that is tackier than the Laurel Canyon
Plaza...it was really hilarious seeing Blue Thunder swoop down
on the store!

Being from L.A., I often find that I recognize parts of
scenes.  Harold's mother's mansion in "Harold and Maude" is
actually parts of the Huntington Library & Lacey Park in San
Marino.  I get a lot of enjoyment from this stuff, but then, I
like having a break from the illusion-spinning sometimes.
It's part of being an Angelena, I guess;  movie-making is such
a pervasive part of the local scenery.

		-ellen