The view Frasier has of the Seattle skyline was completely impossible without rearranging city blocks and moving buildings around the city.
When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in?
Submitted 11 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 months ago
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you suggesting the show was all some sort of extended Twilight Zone bit where Fraiser had the consciousnesses of everyone else trapped inside of a world where he was essentially a god, and forced them to play out petty interactions, never letting the facade slip lest they incur his wrath?
Is Maris a living example of what happens when Fraiser is angered to the point of punishment? Is that why we never see her? Is her visage as a being that has no mouth but must scream so horrific that it must be hidden from the viewing audience at all costs?
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Plus, one of them pronounced Lake Chelan like She-lawn, not, She-laan…and that just ruined it for me.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Brazil is always misrepresented everywhere, but two funny cases come to mind:
There was a House episode where Dr. House was treating a CIA officer who had been to Bolivia and had eaten a lot of nuts. At the end of the episode House realized the officer has actually been to Brazil and not Bolivia and then figures out that he ate Brazil Nuts, which could cause all the symptoms he had. In reality Brazil Nuts are much more common in Bolivia than they are in Brazil (or anywhere else).
The other case was Westworld, Vincent Cassel speaks perfect Portuguese while playing an American character, talking to a Brazilian character whose actor speaks it incorrectly and with an extremely loaded accent.
ryo@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Fast and Furious 5 comes to mind, with the awful portuguese and the stupid american desert that’s apparently around Rio de Janeiro.
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Ah yes, notoriously arid Rio.
Did they throw a yellow filter in the camera, too?
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 months ago
They always show India incorrectly, way more colourful and cleaner than it is. I think mostly not shot here too. Especially in older movies. Also the people speak English in an accent that only Indians abroad speak in.
Blaze@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Also the people speak English in an accent that only Indians abroad speak in.
Curious about this, is the local accent very different?
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
America is frequently misrepresented as free and the good-guy, so all the time really.
MrFappy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Supernatural they went to Longmont Colorado, and it was in the middle of lush (obviously Canadian) forest. There is no forest anywhere really near Longmont. It would’ve been more accurate had they shot that shit in LA.
gerbler@lemmy.world 11 months ago
British Columbia’s forests make up like 90% of the forests on TV I swear. Gorgeous though.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
According to Stargate, every planet is a desert or Vancouver.
Manalith@midwest.social 11 months ago
I was going to to say Sioux Falls, SD in Supernatural being basically a bar and junkyard where exeryone knows each other. It’s a town of 200,000 people.
papabobolious@feddit.nu 11 months ago
Midsommar got pretty much nothing right. They also decided it should take place in Hälsingland because I guess that sounds cool to Americans.
DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The SciFi channel show “Resident Alien” is supposed to take place in Colorado. It is clearly shot in Canada.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
A lot of movies do a good job of showing Vancouver, because that’s where a lot of them are filmed.
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There was this show called “Night Shift” that was supposed to be set in San Antonio… complete with mountains in the background. (It was filmed in Albuquerque and San Antonio has no mountains near it)
Kallioapina@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The finnish youth movie Pitkä Kuuma Kesä, set in 1980’s Joensuu, really portrays the cops in far too positive light. They werent as jovial and unviolent as in the movie - they employed their rubber batongs much more freely irl. I know from experience.
They are luckily far less violent and authoritarian in current times, per my own experience and being told by my friends.
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I went to the Museum of Liverpool today and they have a big section on the city in film and TV and it has appeared in a lot more than media than you’d think but largely standing in for elsewhere.
When it is featured as itself, the depictions are usually pretty accurate because they’ve been written by locals. I suppose the worst example is 51st State but that is over-the-top and so everything is rather cartoonish - my brother’s friend was an extra in that gang of punks but was largely left on the cutting floor.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 11 months ago
1940s New York for a chemically enhanced all American soldier, get yourself down to Liverpool docks. 😁
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Yes, that is one of the more high profile example, along with places like St George’s Hall standing in for Gotham in Batman. First Avenger was filmed in the Stanley Dock area and the adjacent dock road - apart from the big “Brooklyn” sign it’s actually pretty unaltered as there’s some interesting buildings down there (not sure if the hexagonal clock gets screentime you see the box bridge, the main dock walls, etc). There’s even a nice family connection as my grandfather (who would go on to be a gateman on the dry dock further down the road) learned to swim in the Bramley Docks which are the next ones along.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stargate SG-1 portraying Colorado Springs as though it’s flat terrain with no mountains in the background
Oka@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
When I lived in San Francisco, I watched a movie in theater and an SF scene appeared. The audience cheered just from seeing the golden gate Bridge. The geography of the areas around the bridge are what get misrepresented the most, since most media slaps the bridge in the background.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fargo is in North Dakota, not Minnesota dammit!
Railing5132@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Moorhead” just doesn’t ring the same, and would fit a different genre better.
Blaze@reddthat.com 11 months ago
First example is probably going to be Emily in Paris, it’s a running gag on French media how distorted the image of the city is in that show.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I haven’t seen one yet. They’ve pretty much called it out as the shithole it is the few times I have seen my city mentioned by name in some popular media.
NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Portlandia, there are definitely a lot more homeless here and there is certain neighborhoods you don’t want to be in at night.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Portland has changed quite a bit since that show premiered.
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Every single day an actor tries to do a Southern accent but most are cringeworthy to a Southerner.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s ok, all of your accents are cringeworthy to the rest of us. Automatically knocks 30 points off someone’s IQ.
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Really living up to that username.
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why bless your heart!
recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 11 months ago
Fargo, but I love it anyway.
friendlymessage@feddit.de 11 months ago
A-Team the movie is bad in many aspects but what really sticks out for Germans is that while the movie played in Frankfurt (and was shot in Vancouver), they showed aerial shots from Cologne? Which is especially weird because I don’t think aerial shots of Frankfurt should be hard to come by (they are used extensively in Arrow for example) and Cologne is probably one of the most recognizable cities in Germany
OhShitSon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Vikings portrayal of Uppsala is absolutely laughable, in the show it’s portrayed as this väst landscape with mountains and waterfalls. Uppsala is almost completely flat, it’s sometimes referred to as “The Uppsala flats”.
Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah I’ve been to Uppsala and, if I hadn’t known it was exaggerated in the show, I would have been confused.
becausechemistry@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I went to college in Muncie, Indiana, which is the inspiration for Pawnee in Parks and Recreation.
Muncie is kinda like Pawnee, I guess. But without the whimsy.
mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The instant I read “Muncie” I was expecting to find out that everything I knew about it from The Hudsucker Proxy was false, so thank you for preserving my innocence
morphballganon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GOOOOOOOO EAGLES
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 11 months ago
How do people drink from the water bubblers
bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you meant David Letterman at Ball State?
MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Criminal minds when they did an episode in Milwaukee. I was okay that the sets looked nothing like Milwaukee, but I couldn’t handle it when they showed b roll of another city. I get not building city specific sets or shooting on location, but not even buying the stock footage of Milwaukee was so lazy I had to stop watching the show.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They faked the canning district? This is My Milwaukee
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The only one that comes to mind is a film called The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.
There was a group of us at a job many, many years ago performing a survey of Liverpool. One night in the hotel, Channel 4 broadcast the film, which is set in the city. The following morning, two of the guys who had been surveying all the backstreets and alleyways commented that the chase in the film made no sense to them. This was because they could see the cars were jumping to different spots in the city, and it wasn’t coherent.
But I guess you could make that comment about a lot of car chases in the movies.
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I just mentioned 51st State - twinsies.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Jesus Emp! I’m gonna have to start my own server, give me some room man! 🤣
nyctre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the first season of peaky blinders. Whenever they spoke the Romani, they actually spoke really broken Romanian. They fixed it later on, but still.
There’s an EP of South Park with some Romanian gymnast kids that didn’t make much sense, they probably just picked a little known eastern european country at random for the joke and that was it. Then recently they made a parody of Andrew Tate and said he was romanian. That was a bit sad as well :p
Beyond that just references to Romania and Transylvania whenever there’s a vampire or werewolf or whatever. Even Ron Weasley has a brother that studies dragons there, iirc. But those are amusing and fairly cool references so whatever.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pensacola in Godzilla. LOL, no. It’s nowhere neat that large and lit up. They made it look like a major port city. Well, it’s a port city all right.
illi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The Hostel showed Bratislava and Slovakia as a post-communist hellscape. It was very much overblown and not filmed here at all.
Funily enough some cat chase scene for whatever action film was filmed here while the chase was supposed to be in Vienna (I think).
ryo@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
What about Bratislava in Eurotrip? I was like a few coins they had was worth all the money in the country pretty much.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is set next to a real life lighthouse in my hometown. I used to go crawl around on the rocks so much so that I recognize some of them in the trailer. I haven’t watched it yet since I don’t find much time for movies anymore. I’m really looking forward to it. Horror movies also happen to be my thing, but my to-watch list is huge at this point.
binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
In Crocodile Dundee (1986), there is a famous scene where the lead characters are mugged at knife point, producing the quote “That’s not a knife, this is a knife.” In New York City, you actually get mugged at gun point.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Any movie that depicts the pyramids of Giza as being in the middle of pristine deep desert is kind of funny. I mean, when you look up pictures online they are always angled to give the impression. It adds mystique to think the pyramids are at least a little difficult to reach. The reality is that the city of Cairo goes basically right up to them. You can take a taxi from the city and get within American walking distance.
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The pyramids are of course flooded with tourists, so any daring adventurer would in reality have to push their way past a family of six from Iowa to get to the hidden chamber of the pyramid.
Kayday@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How could you do this
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Blaze@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Thank you for posting this. Reminds of pictures taken from a fast-food chain (don’t remember which one) where you can see the pyramids through the window
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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