Hollywood Inaccuracies

[Karen]

I had to stop the movie and rewind it because the street looked so familiar.

The scene edited in is right up the street from my house, the street runs under the Ronald Reagan freeway, next to the Golden State freeway.

So, BW travels from New York to the San Fernando Valley, back to NY in about 30 seconds?

I bet you see a lot of that, living in California. Living near Boston, it's always a mystery where they are shooting some of the footage, but we KNOW where it isn't!

It also amuses me how many times the desert and hills outside of LA are supposed to stand in for other places all over the world. If we can recognize the particular set of hill, I'm pretty sure it's not in Serbia, folks ...

This is a long tradition, of course, as in the old days, many of the different "planets" Dr. Who visited looked suspiciously like yet another English quarry!

[Catherinedana]

Wrong instrument to fit the picture. . .the sound is an oboe and they are playing a clarinet - that kind of thing.

And fake NY accents. . .you CANNOT fake a NY accent. Believe me. I have never heard a fake NY accent that sounded authentic.

[Karen]

Wrong instrument to fit the picture. . .the sound is an oboe and they are playing a clarinet - that kind of thing.

And fake NY accents. . .you CANNOT fake a NY accent. Believe me. I have never heard a fake NY accent that sounded authentic.

The same for Boston accents - horrible things happen when people try. Only people who grew up here - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and siblings - do it plausibly, and everyone else seems to think that either everyone in Massachusetts sounds like a Kennedy, or like a combination of New York City and Downeast Maine ... yuck!