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Old 09-15-2015, 05:21 PM
 
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What struck me recently is that generally no movies show any love for L.A. as a city, the way quite a few NYC movies do.
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Old 09-15-2015, 06:09 PM
 
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What struck me recently is that generally no movies show any love for L.A. as a city, the way quite a few NYC movies do.
My theory on that is that in the past a lot of the writers and producers were from the east coast and glorified NYC on film as the best city in the world. Every movie from 1970 and on was about an Italian, Irish or Jewish American guy growing up in Brooklyn or the Bronx or whatnot. Even in the old cop shows it could be set in LA but the cop talks with a new yawk accent.

A lot of the east coast writers resented the Hollywood studio system and the vapid culture of the 80s so they satirized it and made LA to look like a city with no culture while making NYC the paragon of virtue, the "real" city.

I've always hated the whole NYC is better stuff in films while LA is fake and pompous. Then again it's yuppies writing about yuppies in a different city.
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Old 09-15-2015, 06:36 PM
 
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Thanks! Will do.
Report back on your thoughts about the movie itself and how LA was portrayed.
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Old 09-15-2015, 07:06 PM
 
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Movies and TV always shrink the city.

Viz. Ray Donovan. In seemingly 30 minutes he can get anywhere from Calabasas to DTLA to BH to South Bay etc. No refueling, no traffic.
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Old 09-15-2015, 07:21 PM
 
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Movies and TV always shrink the city.

Viz. Ray Donovan. In seemingly 30 minutes he can get anywhere from Calabasas to DTLA to BH to South Bay etc. No refueling, no traffic.
lol. I always laugh about this when I watch movies set in LA. The actors go in and out of LA in less time than it takes for me to get to sunset from valley village.
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Old 09-15-2015, 07:42 PM
 
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500 Days of Summer.
It pointed out the beautiful architecture that we have in Los Angeles.
Go On Location: Locations Featured in "500 Days of Summer" | Discover Los Angeles
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Old 09-15-2015, 11:10 PM
 
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I just remembered something about Drive. It exists in 4K and 8K, so at some point it's sure to see release in one or both of those formats. I saw it projected in 8K(and boy was is gorgeous) at an industry guy's house and he told me that it's one of dozens of movies* that a German company he does work for upscaled to 4K and 8K.





*The James Bond movies are all being upscaled to 4K and 8K as well
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Old 09-16-2015, 01:52 AM
 
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"Los Angels plays itself".
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Old 09-16-2015, 11:53 AM
 
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Also consider that Location Scouts can reference decades of films shot in LA to find the "perfect" venues they're after. It's entirely likely that a another scout found and used a location in a creative way (in this case, upscale), so that location is reused over and over leading to the perpetual elongating of that manipulated perception.
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Old 09-16-2015, 02:48 PM
 
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I've always loved how the film, "Beginners" portrays LA. Very authentic, esp. the Silver Lake/Los Feliz areas.

Just a lovely film in general w/ Ewan MacGregor, Melanie Laurent and Christopher Plummer.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFM3AE64bgw
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