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Subject: Re: [OM] OT Movies, TV and the USA
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:01:08 -0500
I remember when I first saw Christmas Story in the theatre.  Set in Cleveland, 
but I immediately knew it was filmed in Toronto.

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On 12/5/2003 at 6:56 PM Larry wrote:

>Fro my experience, many movies & most television series that are supposed
>to
>take place in NY (and other east coast places) are actually filmed in
>Vancouver,
>or California over 3000 miles away, & written/produced/directed by people
>having
>absolutely no NY experience. Shows like "Without a Trace" a "NY" show
>filmed in
>Vancouver with Anthony Lapaglia & Piper Montgomery starring - both from
>Australia, or "Everybody Loves Raymond" supposedly taking place 8 minutes
>from
>where I live, but filmed in LA!, along with Boston Public, & even Seinfeld
>(at
>least the creator, a couple of actors, and Jerry himself were actually
>from the
>area). All filmed in LA, with innaccuracies only related to inexperience,
>never
>explainable as parody or helping the humor. (They were actually guessing it
>hoping to be accurate).
>
>But shows like Law & Order, and even the location feel of the Sopranos
>which
>were completely filmed in their portrayed areas were far more accurate in
>feel,
>but ultimately not in substance. (Scripts written in LA).
>
>Probably related to the West Coast opinion of the east coast being seedier
>with
>more crime, when actually there is far more crime & a much higher murder
>rate in
>LA than NYC, surveys rating LA as 9th compared with NYC's 43rd of major US
>cities!
>
>Just some odd article:
>http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/summaries/reader/0,2061,555972,00.html
>
>Larry
>
>
>Gregg Iverson wrote:
>
>> If you want to see a weird place stay around the Hollywood area (most
>> movies really aren't made there, but we say Hollywood anyway) for
>> awhile.
>>
>> gregg
>>
>> >But if "All Creatures" had been produced here, every episode would
>> >have had at least one shooting, two car chases, and Sigfried
>> >Farnan would have had Mafia connections and a mistress in the next
>> >town.  There would be pimps beating hookers and cops on the take,
>> >and everything else we have come to accept and to yawn at over
>> >here.
>> >
>> >Please don't judge us by the crap the Hollywierd money-grubbers
>> >make up.  It's not even a reasonable caricature.
>>
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