"Cultural exporter": NYC vs LA (live, place, Los Angeles)
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The movie Echo Park portrays an interesting side of LA, sort of blending the "same-old" story of trying to make it in the entertainment industry but set in a mid-gentrification Echo Park: Echo Park (1986) - IMDb
Filmed in Echo Park too.
I think the seediness of 80s-90s Hollywood is another pretty well-represented location / setting for LA based films... alongside ghetto South Central, seedy Venice / Santa Monica, and bougie Beverly Hills.
What about Sesame Street? Big Bird is a real hero.
That counts too.
Well it's Halloween, kids all over the world will be dressing up as something including superheroes that swing webs off buildings, save the city from a nuclear plant explosion (from the middle of the city), save people from driving off bridges, rip the city apart as they fight villains, jumping from rooftops of one building to another, save public transit trains from falling off tracks, boss NYPD around, etc.
If spiderman was in LA, he would be swinging from palm tree to palm tree on 3rd street promenade instead of skyscraper to skyscraper in Manhattan.
Well it's Halloween, kids all over the world will be dressing up as something including superheroes that swing webs off buildings, save the city from a nuclear plant explosion (from the middle of the city), save people from driving off bridges, rip the city apart as they fight villains, jumping from rooftops of one building to another, save public transit trains from falling off tracks, boss NYPD around, etc.
If spiderman was in LA, he would be swinging from palm tree to palm tree on 3rd street promenade instead of skyscraper to skyscraper in Manhattan.
Well, there's Zorro which is pretty badass. They should update him to Zorro 2012 living in LA now. He'd have an awesome motorbike and a sword made of lasers and pcp.
Well it's Halloween, kids all over the world will be dressing up as something including superheroes that swing webs off buildings, save the city from a nuclear plant explosion (from the middle of the city), save people from driving off bridges, rip the city apart as they fight villains, jumping from rooftops of one building to another, save public transit trains from falling off tracks, boss NYPD around, etc.
If spiderman was in LA, he would be swinging from palm tree to palm tree on 3rd street promenade instead of skyscraper to skyscraper in Manhattan.
You must be so proud.
If the kids are smart, they'll dream of writing their own script and moving to Hollywood.
It's just a little tease Chandler, heavens say you enjoy a good joke every now and then too. As for my superhero comments, well when I was growing up I would watch a lot of super friends, smallville, justice league, and read lots of marvel comics. Always enjoyed seeing NYC in both 2D comics in cartoon and in movies. It made the city stand out as a dynamic place for me. In TV shows involving tweetie bird and Sylvester the cat, in cartoons NYC still looked good. Cat trying to nab the bird from an apartment window 40 stories up, looks down, begins sweating and acting like a buffoon almost tripping but makes it through the window and somehow gets knocked out and falls 40 stories while holding a picket sign reading "help". I just don't see this with other cities, Hollywood sometimes has a role as a backdrop in those cartoons but it's rare.
If it makes you feel any better, worst case is that both cities are tied as cultural exporters. I still think its debatable and that's the fun of these debates, so far neither have pulled away.
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Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives
If the kids are smart, they'll dream of writing their own script and moving to Hollywood.
Don't underestimate them. They'll move to Hollywood, write their scripts, and use NYC as their backdrop.
NYC has three neighborhoods that are seen in film:
1. The Rich Part
2. The Hood
3. The Financial District
LA has three neighborhoods that are seen in film:
1. The Rich Part
2. The Hood
3. The Beach
The fact of the matter is that no one is generally paying attention to street signs or asking what borough/neighborhood the character is in; they're watching the movie. Being an LA resident, you see a lot of picking-and-choosing of totally different areas for aesthetics... for instance, in American History X, they step out of a diner on Wilshire and Fairfax in Miracle Mile, and then walk across the street to Venice High School out by the beach. The driveway of Venice High earlier in the film was Santa Monica High, two miles north. In Crash, they walk out of their apartment in South Central and then walk along Venice Boulevard in Mar Vista, in front of Hurry Curry. It's the same in NYC... a stoop scene in Harlem will be shot in Queens.
What you describe sounds like balance, actually. An L.A. film typically bounces around all over the place--it's rarely confined to one neighborhood or even one region. Look at Lethal Weapon:
It goes damn near everywhere, from Long Beach, to Dotweiller, to Hollywood, to South Central, to the desert, to Palos Verdes. The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, and many other L.A. films are the same way. A lot of times the city is depicted as just a normal city. No giant sign screaming "we're at Rockafeller Center now! Look at me!"
What you describe sounds like balance, actually. An L.A. film typically bounces around all over the place--it's rarely confined to one neighborhood or even one region. Look at Lethal Weapon:
It goes damn near everywhere, from Long Beach, to Dotweiller, to Hollywood, to South Central, to the desert, to Palos Verdes. The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, and many other L.A. films are the same way. A lot of times the city is depicted as just a normal city. No giant sign screaming "we're at Rockafeller Center now! Look at me!"
So let me get this straight....they go to a single-family home, a trailer park, a police station, a condo building, and a hot dog cart, and you call that "showcasing" Los Angeles?
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