…Like maybe how abso-freakin’-loutely gorgeous your part of the world is?
I just watched a movie, Leaving Normal, that was filmed there. Uh. Muh. Gawd! (And I’ll bet I wasn’t even seeing the best stuff - you probably have to keep that back to prevent armed invasion, right?)
Those night skies painted with a billion stars and auroras! Those tranquil lakes! Those stands of trees as far as the eye can see which, admittedly, is not very far because the trees get in the way!
I may just have to annex BC to my (future) empire. Do you mind? I promise a flat tax rate and a left turn lane on every road!
Yes, B.C. kicks ass for scenery. Come camping sometime!
The coast is nice, but I love the interior especially. My old man used to camp for four months out of the year in the Cascades- longest I ever stuck it out was for two.
If you’d like to check out some more cinematic BC, rent Rupert’s Land. Comedy/Road movie from one of the writers of Cube, starring George Wendt.
Or Roxanne, which was filmed in Oliver, B.C. Yes, it really looks like that… except there are more hippies.
Mina Shum’s Double Happiness is one of my favourite Vancouver movies, probably because my first serious girlfriend was asian, and the film explores one of Canada’s other “two solitudes.”
Octavia Smythe-Bunion I. Esq. is out of the office.
Hi, I’ll be out of the office on an extended fact-finding mission to British Columbia. You can reach me by sled dog, homing pigeon, or message in a bottle.
In the opening few minutes of Braveheart, the camera pans a scene of mountains rising out of the sea, which makes most people’s hearts pound. Unless you take the West Coast Express to work every day and see that first thing in the morning before the sun burns the mists off, or traffic gets stupid. Even then, we wet coasters know we are blessed.
FYI, although very little of Braveheart was filmed here, those opening shots are of Indian Arm.
I’ve been to Indian Arm! I think my aunt has a cottage there. It is the most breathtaking place I’ve ever been, but i must confess that Northern Ontario is still my favorite. Pine trees, lakes, and big rocks.
I grew up there (among other places). Does that count? All I remember is that it always rained. And that I once went 4 days without taking a crap when we went camping on salt spring island.