I take it that you have never used heavy equipment.
It takes a great deal of force to grade a road and a steel, not iron,blade to do so.
It would also be unnecessary if you don’t drive vehicles with wooden wheels or if you simply ride horses over them.
The roads in almost every Western is clearly created for use by the cast and crew vehicles filming the project and it’s not a replica of what would have existed at the time. It’s the difference between a cobblestone lane and an asphalt paved road.
Actually, in Silverado, they really don’t go that far. They simply traveled around Northern New Mexico, mostly in the areas north,east and west of Santa Fe. That’s where it was filmed and the terrain really doesn’t look that different.
In The Searchers, the narrative makes it clear that the Comanches, a tribe native to what is now and was then. Texas, are the antagonists in the film. That means that one would expect to see them in hills and on the plans of West and Central Texas, not 400 miles away in a very distinctive portion of the country.
If one were to set a film in Milan and then film it along the Amalfi Coast, several hundreds miles to the south, the difference would be noticeable and it would throw one out their sense of disbelief.
CBS’ Criminal Minds often has this problem, as it is clearly filmed around Southern California and yet it attempts to use locations in that the area to represent various parts of the US. They set one episode in Dallas and it was clear from the plant life and the occasional glimpse of a hill that they were nowhere near Dallas. Or Texas, for that matter.
In The Two Towers, during the scene where Faramir and his men surround Aragorn et al., Faramir doesn’t even notice that his sword drops out of its scabbard as he remounts his horse.
I have pierced ears and haven’t worn earrings for about 25 years, but the holes are still there and I can pass a narrow wire through them if I’m careful.
Yeah, but you’re not a superhero. Bruce Willis’ character in Unbreakable is. Specifically, he’s a superhero who is immune to physical damage. Either through super tough skin, or (as OneCentStamp suggested) some sort of near-instantaneous healing ability.
Either way, he shouldn’t be able to wear an earring.
Or, if he could wear one (Can he force a pointed object through his own flesh? Can he microwave a burrito so hot that he cannot eat it?), you’d think the hole would close as soon as he took the earring out.
Shaving and trimming his nails are not the same thing; an ear piercing is going through living tissue that hurts and, if not especially vascular, is loaded with capillaries. Pierced ears can bleed.
And holy crap, I’m actually trying to poke holes into a Shyamalan-built world. How did I get here? :smack:
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Sylvester (Dick Shawn) is dancing with his girlfriend. His red trunks are seriously short, and at one particular moment where he’s leaning waaay back you may or may not notice the tip of his dinkus peeking out through the gap between thigh and trunks.
The Unit did this and Agents of SHIELD has done this as well. Southern California becomes a stand in for Mexico, Afghanistan, or just about anywhere else that’s foreign.
Psych was set in Santa Barbara, CA but shot in British Columbia. May times it was obvious that they were in the Pacific Northwest and not Southern California. At the end of a season 7 episode that was set in London, they even made a joke about it.
Gus: “Shawn, we went to one pub and a warehouse. We might as well have been in British Columbia.”
(My 14yo and his z-movie fanatic friend inveigled us into watching this the other night. I have considerable b-movie luvs and experience but Oh. My. Gawwwwwwd.)
Most boom mike errors are from full-frame printing of movies that were intended for cropped projection. In other words, the boom mike or other crew element got into the film frame, but not the intended print frame.
This is quite common.
In the early seasons of MacGuyver LA stood in for all parts of the world. In the later seasons production moved to Vancouver BC and BC stood in for all different parts of the world.
I must have seen Bullit a hundred times before I realized the green VW sequence was filmed by several cameras from different locations, and those different pov’s were shown sequentially in the chase scene, with some significant movie time between them.
I don’t agree. I’ve dragged iron frames, and flat iron plates, over dirt roads, to smooth them, after rainfall run-off has cut little grooves across. A team of horses could do the same thing.
This is essentially correct. In old Bonanza episodes, for instance, the roads are pretty clearly modern dirt roads, built for automobile traffic.
I am just nitpicking your argument that roads weren’t ever graded in the past. They were. I’ve used that kind of technology.
