Hollywood Inaccuracies

The movie the Jungle Book was filmed partly in the Fall Creek Falls park in Tennessee. Since I've been there several times myself I can tell you exactly which scenes are filmed there. The trees are TOTALLY different than the ones they actually filmed in the jungle, and they made the mistake of filming most of the scenes in TN from major tourist viewing areas rather than other lesser known areas of the park.

http://ic2.pbase.com/v3/69/386469/1/...9.fcfalls2.jpg

http://www.radiotimes.com/shows/term.../photo_lrg.jpg

Oh - another. When they cast people of the completely wrong ethnicity from what they are supposed to be. Current example, on the new show "Nikita," one of the main characters is a young girl who is theoretically from Ukraine, I think it is. Not only does the character have absolutely no accent, she looks not even remotely Slavic or Russian, never mind Ukrainian. She's got cheekbones no broader than mine, for goodness sake! Are there no actresses from anywhere in Eastern Europe who could have been more credibly cast?

And when they cast a "family" and the kids look not one bit like each other, or the parents. Not in coloring, build or any details whatsoever. And when they cast the younger version of a character with a totally different bone structure, never mind looks, as the adult version, and just color the hair to match.

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Originally Posted by Karen

Oh - another. When they cast people of the completely wrong ethnicity from what they are supposed to be. Current example, on the new show "Nikita," one of the main characters is a young girl who is theoretically from Ukraine, I think it is. Not only does the character have absolutely no accent, she looks not even remotely Slavic or Russian, never mind Ukrainian. She's got cheekbones no broader than mine, for goodness sake! Are there no actresses from anywhere in Eastern Europe who could have been more credibly cast?

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The 70's TV show Kung Fu comes to mind. Am I the only one who wanted to shout "Hey, that guy is NOT Chinese!"

Sean Connery as the Russian sub commander in Hunt for Red October, anyone?:p

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Originally Posted by smokey the elder

Sean Connery as the Russian sub commander in Hunt for Red October, anyone?:p

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Come on, Tovarisch.....the Motherland frowns on cynicism.;)

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Originally Posted by kokopup

The Andy Griffin show is my standard, "put me to sleep", watching every night.
The scenes of Mayberry North Carolina are reasonable but when they go out of Mayberry to county roads or lakes it becomes very obvious that they are shooting in California.

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I tuned into the AGS this afternoon and remembered the episode where Aunt Bea wins some flying lessons?

That was filmed at a airport/airpark three blocks away from my house here in So Cal.

My dad would park at the end of the runway to watch the planes land and it wasn't hard to figure out it was the same place in the episode.

Watch for the three smoke stacks in the background, they belong to the local power plant!