Actually, Georgia based movies/TV shows are generally set in one of 4 scenarios:
*Atlanta, as you already mentioned (Ant Man, Insurgent, Captain America Civil War)
*the Appalachian mountains (Deliverance, I’d Climb the Highest Mountain)
*quiant small towns (My Cousin Vinny, Sweet Home Alabama, In the Heat of the Night)
*the beach (Magic Mike XXL, Cape Fear, Dirty Grandpa)
To the list of famous people I’d add many, many musicians - too many to list here. Atlanta is becoming the epicenter of hip hop and Athens has always had a burgeoning rock/indie music scene. Of course, country music iss well represented as well.
Also peaches, pecans and peanuts. Can’t forget the peanuts!
Pennsylvania; the Keystone State - it’s always ended up at the center of history. With the Ohio/Three Rivers it was key to the interior of North America and became a goal of the French and Indian War, it was the seat of Congress for most of the Revolution, the site of the (some would argue) most pivotal battle of the Civil War. A home to industry and more it has played a strong role outside war as well.
SF Bay Area: Got to show the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe fog. Buncha gay people, some hippies (two-for-one if you just show people wearing rainbow tie-dye), and maybe a few cable cars.
(side note: we tend to think of Northern California as anything north of the Marin wine country, and Southern California as anything south of Santa Cruz. People actually from Northern California think of SF as being in Southern California, and people in Southern California think of SF as being Northern. Go figure.).
Funny, as an outsider, I’d say Philly, Pitt, and not much else. Maybe William Penn and Quaker Oats. And in what ways has the Keystone State ended up at the center of history in the past couple of centuries?
My Cousin Vinny (Alabama), Sweet Home Alabama, and In The Heat of the Night (Mississippi), were only filmed there.
That makes me think that I should amend my answer upthread. Southern Utah was a bit of a factory for Western films in the 50s and 60s, standing in for a wide range of places.
Coffee-addicted vampires leave the spooky woods, travel to Seattle, kidnap Bill Gates and carry him to the top of the Space Needle to save him from the simultaneous eruptions of Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier.
Born and raised in Ohio - Presidents. 7 born there and another a resident when elected. Also for helping to elect Presidents. Since becoming a state, the winner carried Ohio in all but 4 elections.
Michigan (my next longest time as a resident) - Giant honking lakes that hold more than 1/5th of the world’s surface fresh water. It’s also the only place in CONUS where you drive south when crossing in to Canada.
Foliage, Windiest spot in the US - Mount Washington, presidential primaries, no seat belts required for adults (Live Free or Die!), no income tax, almost no sales tax
Maryland: Blue Ridge mountains, Brownstone buildings in Baltimore. (Tin Men was filmed on Springdale Dr. But there are houses, areas like that all over Baltimore)
Famous People: Francis Scott Key, Harriet Tubman and Jim Henson
Since Florida was taken (although they left of Disney in my neck of the woods) I’ll go with what hasn’t been said: The home state of Indiana!
Corn, Corn, Basketball, Corn, Indy Cars, and Corn.
You’d probably think we were Nebraska if it wasn’t for Basketball and Indy Cars.
As for famous people? Bob Knight is the first one I think of. Maybe Michael Jackson (although Gary just pretends it’s Chicago and, frankly, they can have it), also maybe Johnny Appleseed since he’s buried in Ft. Wayne.
Little Rhody, my home state. Known for being the smallest state (in area). Also, and you should know this, the full name of the state is: Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. The latter part being the mainland, and the former part being the actual island. The state is not an island.
CA, my adopted state. I would hardly know where to begin to list the things we are known for!
Been through the full name thing before on the board. Now try to get a Rhode Islander to tell you which island Rhode Island is. Odds are they’ll say no one knows anymore. Point out that it’s the island Newport is on and they’ll insist that’s actually Aquidneck Island, even though it is clearly marked on a map. But then again they think there’s a South County and a town of Chariho also.
McLeod (Is that how it was spelled?) from Taos. (with a central Texas accent for some reason)
Georgia O’Keef, Ansel Adams, and an entire industry built around Santa Fe artists almost none of which were born in NM.
Tony Hillerman inspired native culture. TH really captured the feel of NM, in my opinion.
Ballooning: The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is pretty popular, and the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight featured a crew of Burquenos.
And now we are known for a certain fictional high school chemistry teacher turned meth cook, though I understand there are plenty of places with a much stronger meth industry. NM is actually a per capita leader in Heroin addiction however.
If Virgin Galactic ever gets anything flying, we might eventually be known for space tourism.
That’s part of being an old colony/state, as far as the US goes. Some things are lost in the mists of history for most people. So much knowledge… so little space to store it in!
