That is, recognizing real-life locations on TV shows or in movies! I’ve watched some TV shows and thought “Woah! I know that place!” Usually no one really cares, but I think it’s awesome. Because then I know how inaccurate they are with the location.
Once I watched an episode of Law&Order, and I recognized a place they were filming in, except in real life, there’s barely anyone walking around there, but on TV it looked like a busy street. How inaccurate! Anyway, I sorta lost track of where I was going with the daily flash, so… yeah. Whoops.
lol i know right? I see this lots in movies.
lmao… it’s still fun to recognize places, though.
Oh, Unnamed Character, you’re so silly.
But yeah, they often do on-location filming in recognizable areas just so they can get a particular building or local feature (e.g., the San Diego Convention Center showing up in Demolition Man, or the San Antonio Riverwalk and Paramount Cable building showing up in Knight Rider 2000) for the scene, but not to provide an accurate portrayal of the area.
This seems to happen to me too. Why do they have the places so inaccurate, though? Perhaps the filmmakers don’t want to make the events seem like they really took place. That or every non-actor passer-by filmed on the spot suffers temporary death by Yuyuko. Either way, it’s still pretty cool to see stuff you can recognize.
Will the police and suspect ever get the ice cream D:?!
lol :3
Ever seen the movie Jumanji?
I live where it was filmed. The Parish Shoes-sign is still on a brick wall downtown. :3
You get this all the time in Singaporean TV shows. Under One Roof takes place mainly in Bishan, although they used a special studio set for the indoors scenes.
A funny example of cutting all over happens in an old 70s Singaporean movie, where the heroine is taking the Cable Cars from Sentosa, then hops on her bike and zooms immediately into the Chinese Gardens in Jurong, a good long expressway ride away, all in the space of a single cut. That’s a fast bike there…
I live in Denver, and there’s a New York style (as close as you’re going to get, anyway) pizza place with the NYC skyline painted on the wall. Just be glad you hadn’t seen that.
Is this phenomenon same as knowing someone who has newly-advertised item months before being advertised?
This happens a lot for Toronto; it’s the cheaper version of filming in any place American. We even have a decommissioned subway station that used for films like The Matrix and Johnny Mnemonic.
Helloween is near! So we need Zombie skin in the accesoires! Plz? <:3
I lol’ed at the episode of “The Listener” when they found a dead body inside a trunk of a car near Ontario college of art and design.
I really need to stop making irrelevant comments and putting links in the punctuation in an attempt to get more views…
I do this all the time, like how yesterday in how i met your mother they were talking about the tim hortins by the hockey hall of fame, and I was like, I KNOW THAT PLACE!