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randall 
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 Posted - 04/27/2007 : 22:36:06
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Joe, I can't believe that anyone would set a fire for publicity purposes months before the picture opens. [The weekend before, maybe... ]
Just like they didn't burn down the James Bond stage at Elstree to plug a movie.
But when BATMAN finally opens, are you going to have a great time! It's terrific fun to be able to point at the screen and say, "That's where..." [Please reserve your vocal comments for when you're watching the DVD at home, out of respect for us theatergoers. ] |
Edited by - randall on 04/27/2007 22:37:34 |
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 00:11:44
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Originally posted by Randall
[It's terrific fun to be able to point at the screen and say, "That's where..." [Please reserve your vocal comments for when you're watching the DVD at home, out of respect for us theatergoers.]
I have those moments on almost every episode of Seinfeld. The show was filmed in LA, of course, but all the location shots outside are real places in New York City. And even though they all take place on the Upper West Side, most of the locations are in reality in lower Manhattan, around the Union Sq/Greenwich Village neighborhoods, where I lived when I went to NYU. I can show you where the New York Health Club is (where Elaine worked out with JFK Jr and George was caught peeing in the shower), where the post office Neuman works at is, where Rudy's Vintage Clothing Shop is, where the Improv(isational) Comedy Club is, et al. |
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Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 00:14:58
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Like I said, it was just a persistent rumor, idle gossip among office drones. It is an odd coincidence that there would be a ventilator fire at this vacant building while a movie was being filmed there. The fire and the filming weren't really near each other, so it's likely that they were not connected except by happenstance. In any case, the fire was mainly a non-event: a big commotion over nothing. Had it happened at any other time, we'd have barely paid attention. As it was, the fire did bring publicity -- wanted or not -- to the movie. The filming seems to have wrapped for good at this location. They're even dismantling the famous (around here, anyway) fake wall.
My hope when the movie comes out is that they don't airbrush out the reflection of our building in the windows of the Gotham bank. As ugly and non-cinematic as our building is, I'd like to see it onscreen, even as a reflection. |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 00:28:48
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Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Randall
[It's terrific fun to be able to point at the screen and say, "That's where..." [Please reserve your vocal comments for when you're watching the DVD at home, out of respect for us theatergoers.]
I have those moments on almost every episode of Seinfeld. The show was filmed in LA, of course, but all the location shots outside are real places in New York City. And even though they all take place on the Upper West Side, most of the locations are in reality in lower Manhattan, around the Union Sq/Greenwich Village neighborhoods, where I lived when I went to NYU. I can show you where the New York Health Club is (where Elaine worked out with JFK Jr and George was caught peeing in the shower), where the post office Neuman works at is, where Rudy's Vintage Clothing Shop is, where the Improv(isational) Comedy Club is, et al.
Back in 2002 I went to get a soup from the 'Soup Nazi', it was closed while he was on holidays.
I also went to see the diner, if my memory serves me right, it is in Harlem? |
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Sean
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 01:08:17
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The only time I can recall seeing filming in action then watching the movie was the riot scene in The Boxer (1997) (after the car bomb). It was filmed in Dublin, and I was in a pub with a cousin and friends watching the filming out the window, I recall at least 2-3 takes. When I watched the DVD a few years later I recall seeing the light coming out of the pub that I had been in while filming (although the pub wasn't in any shot) and illuminating the corner of the scene. It was strange watching the action in the movie from a different angle to the angle I had seen it live from, and also knowing that I was only a few metres to the left of the scene sipping on a pint of Guinness. 
Although I did recognise some scenes in LOTR and Heavenly Creatures.
I'm looking forward to seeing The Dark Knight and recognising those scenes in your photos, Joe. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 04/28/2007 : 05:33:46
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| Tom's Restaurant is in Morningside Heights at 112th and Broadway. Before the show it was already featured in Suzanna Vega's song "Tom's Diner." |
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Joe Blevins
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 05/06/2007 : 07:04:00
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SAD POSTSCRIPT: The fake wall is all but dismantled now. There's just a tiny little corner of it left.
But dig this: there's a guy in an orange jacket whose apparent job is to guard this pitiful little fragment of fake wall ALL DAY LONG. Honest to god, this guy paces back and forth in front of the fake wall remnant (no bigger than a telephone booth), and he's there all day, every day. That's all he does. He never leaves that corner. The film crew and equipment are long gone. There's just this one guy left and maybe 7% of the fake wall. We watch him occasionally from our office and speculate on how he's doing.
Does this guy get a screen credit (Fake Wall Remnant Guard)? Does he tell friends/family he's in the movie business?
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 17:00:17
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Originally posted by Joe Blevins
Does this guy get a screen credit (Fake Wall Remnant Guard)? Does he tell friends/family he's in the movie business?
No, he tells friends/family what a joke it is that he's getting paid $18/hr just to guard a fragment of a fake wall. Then he calls his union rep and thanks him. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 01:28:44
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Joe BlevinsDoes this guy get a screen credit (Fake Wall Remnant Guard)? Does he tell friends/family he's in the movie business?
No, he tells friends/family what a joke it is that he's getting paid $18/hr just to guard a fragment of a fake wall. Then he calls his union rep and thanks him.
I can now see how it can cost $100+ million to make a movie.  |
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Joe Blevins
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"Batman Begins 2": filming right outside my window
