Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.
Appalachia, Deliverance
Rio de Janeiro, City of God
Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
The Ocean, Jaws
Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
Some movies make Manhattan look great, but the Pacino movie Devil’s Advocate made even the nice areas look like the most sterile, unwelcoming, overcrowded and generally evil concrete and steel corpse imaginable.
Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.
Appalachia, Deliverance
Rio de Janeiro, City of God
Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
The Ocean, Jaws
Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
Space, Apollo 13
Iraq, The Hurt Locker
Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
rural Texas, No Country for Old Men
Cartagena, Colombia, Romancing the Stone
It also made good old Gainesville, Florida look like a total redneck town. I was going to school there at the time the movie came out. The audience burst out laughing when Keanu Reeves said, “I’m not going back to Gainesville!”
Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.
Appalachia, Deliverance
Rio de Janeiro, City of God
Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
The Ocean, Jaws
Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
Space, Apollo 13
Iraq, The Hurt Locker
Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
rural Texas, No Country for Old Men
Cartagena, Colombia, Romancing the Stone
The Philippines (the interior part), Apocalypse Now
Next up: In honor of Jerry Leiber’s death today, link to a YouTube of a classic Jerry Leiber song- any artist is fine. (Here’s a partial list of Leiber’s songs- there are many more, and you will definitely know at least some of them even if you don’t know Leiber’s name.)
Next up: In honor of Jerry Leiber’s death today, link to a YouTube of a classic Jerry Leiber song- any artist is fine. (Here’s a partial list of Leiber’s songs- there are many more, and you will definitely know at least some of them even if you don’t know Leiber’s name.)