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Saguaro range basically ends going east at the Rincon mountains around Tucson. There have been a few that have been grown purposefully in a few towns in SE Arizona (Benson-Sierra Vista-Tombstone) but they stop rather abruptly at the Rincons.
Speaking of which, the Movie "Oklahoma" was filmed in Sonoita, Arizona just SE of Tucson. The reason is that they didn't think that the state of Oklahoma looked enough like the stereotype of Oklahoma to film it there.
My understanding, which comes from a documentary on YouTube, is that Oklahoma, like Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas had oil derricks filling up the landscape (as told by Shirley Jones) back in the 50s, which was true. I remember them quite well. That would have been the reason for filming in Arizona. The site built derricks were torn down and sold as scrap in the 60s so very few remain today. Most of those derricks were built before WW2, before the transported rigs were introduced.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The opening sequence. Unless they literally drove all the way to western Montana from Chicago to get a tree, that is definitely not ANYWHERE near Chicago, or Illinois even.
The Christmas tree scene, the sledding scene, and the Wal-Mart scene were shot in and around Breckenridge and Silverthorne, Colorado.
What about Mississippi Burning? Seemed pretty accurate to me.
I'm giving them half a credit on the locations. Some of the filming took place in Alabama so nope.
To get specific ( or nitpicking ) in Mississippi: The real life incident happened in Northern region. They film 1 or maybe 2 locations there and the rest was in the Southern region.
I've noticed that many movies set along the Tex-Mex border still depict towns that are like over 80% white, when nearly every border town is in reality over 90% Mexican/Hispanic. For example No Country for Old Men shows the borderlands filled with white cowboys which is far from the truth.
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I'm giving them half a credit on the locations. Some of the filming took place in Alabama so nope.
To get specific ( or nitpicking ) in Mississippi: The real life incident happened in Northern region. They film 1 or maybe 2 locations there and the rest was in the Southern region.
To be fair though, having driven the length of 55 through MS many times, it really looks exactly the same through the vast majority of the state.
I'm giving them half a credit on the locations. Some of the filming took place in Alabama so nope.
To get specific ( or nitpicking ) in Mississippi: The real life incident happened in Northern region. They film 1 or maybe 2 locations there and the rest was in the Southern region.
The real life incident happened in and south of Philadelphia on the road to Meridian and other spots in Neshoba county. I would consider that east central Mississippi.
My understanding, which comes from a documentary on YouTube, is that Oklahoma, like Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas had oil derricks filling up the landscape (as told by Shirley Jones) back in the 50s, which was true. I remember them quite well. That would have been the reason for filming in Arizona. The site built derricks were torn down and sold as scrap in the 60s so very few remain today. Most of those derricks were built before WW2, before the transported rigs were introduced.
New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, nearly any of those rather flat plains like states would have been better than a desert state with saguaros and mountains for filming.
To be fair though, having driven the length of 55 through MS many times, it really looks exactly the same through the vast majority of the state.
Not until you drive on Hwy 61(Delta), I-59 ( Pine Belt ), & I-10 ( best scenery in the state). Everything match up with the minir exception of hilly areas.
The real life incident happened in and south of Philadelphia on the road to Meridian and other spots in Neshoba county. I would consider that east central Mississippi.
Of course. I been to all of that area my entire life.
One of my pet peeves, as someone who likes to travel and as a screenwriter, is the way some movies and TV shows completely misrepresent what a place looks like in not just geography, but even architecture and sometimes climate.
I was thoroughly irritated by the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford for this reason.
I have lived most of my life only a few miles from the Jesse James homestead, near Kearney, Missouri (north of Kansas City), and I have been to many of the locations portrayed in this film several times. It's about 99% inaccurate. They chose to shoot the film in a mountainous region of Canada, which doesn't even resemble the high Plains prairies along the Missouri/Kansas border where Jesse James actually lived.
Since Jesse James is my "neighbor," I have read just about every book on Frank and Jesse. The movie was also chocked full of historical inaccuracies. As entertainment, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is good, but as history lesson it merits an "F."
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) in Mississippi: The real life incident happened in Northern region. They film 1 or maybe 2 locations there and the rest was in the Southern region.
