Biogeography and Hollywood

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2002.11.27 at 16:30:45(9654) Dear aroiders, Talking about incongruency... What about a Monstera deliciosa growing in a virgin forest in Africa, +More together with gorillas? (it happened so many times I couldn?t count) Or what about american anteaters in Africa? (the Lion King) The best of all is finding a movie that was supposed to be in the Brazilian Amazonia, but there were many Philodendron bipinnatifidum (Coastal S.E.Brazil) and Epipremnum pinnatum "aureum" (Asia) hanging on trees. And people speaking Spanish, obviously!!!! Very best wishes, Eduardo. Post scriptum: I SWEAR that some of you are asking: Don?t they speak Spanish there??? (LOL) > ok, i really need to get a life if that's what i can find to critique in a > movie... botanical inacuracies... You are not alone. I find it a bit inconguous to be watching a movie set in the tropics, or the eastern US, and hear Pacific tree frogs in the background. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?pageþatures/featuredemail

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2002.11.28 at 01:16:48(9659) the best is when jackie chan shot his movie "rumble in the bronx" in vancouver, canada. you can see in the background the rolling verdant hills of the bronx... LOL -- tsuh yang CHEN in nyc

From: hermine hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2002.11.28 at 03:02:47(9660) At 08:16 PM 11/27/2002 -0500, Piabinha@aol.com wrote: the best is when jackie chan shot his movie "rumble in the bronx" in vancouver, canada. you can see in the background the rolling verdant hills of the bronx... LOL Various parts of Canada make do for USA. even brighton beach memories was somewhere in Vancouver, i think. i grew UP in brighton beach. Brooklyn Heights is often located in some charming Canadian village. and yes, the viper is played by a PYTHON, usually a reticulated python who gets lots of work i understand. hermine

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2002.11.29 at 03:30:44(9663) In a message dated 11/28/2002 10:23:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, hermine@endangeredspecies.com writes: > Various parts of Canada make do for USA. even brighton beach memories was +More > somewhere in Vancouver, i think. i grew UP in brighton beach. Brooklyn > Heights is often located in some charming Canadian village. yes, they often shoot NYC scenes in toronto. but first they have to buy garbage, then throw it around, put graffitti everywhere, shoot the movie, then clean it up. it is still cheaper than shooting in nyc... tsuh yang

From: hermine hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2002.11.29 at 16:16:28(9667) yes, they often shoot NYC scenes in toronto. but first they have to buy garbage, then throw it around, put graffitti everywhere, shoot the movie, then clean it up. it is still cheaper than shooting in nyc... tsuh yang +More what is the going price for garbage? i have some! also, the NOSTALGIC movies, of NY when everything was cleaner and better and home baked, is the period they often reference. so a piece of paper occasionally blowing down a street is "urban garbage". Moonstruck drove me mad, i LIVED around the corner from that alleged house and memorized every house on that street. so when she stood under a street sign, turned the corner onto an alien street, I foamed at the MOUTH! Also the house in which the family lived is about five times the width of a mansion in Brooklyn Heights. hermine

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