My Problem with "A Bronx Tale"

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

It wasn't filmed in The Bronx. (http://arthuravenuebronx.com/index_old1.htm)

It was filmed in Astoria, Queens.

I went to Fordham University and lived in the neighborhood. It truly was a neighborhood. I could walk to my apartment from a friend's apartment at 2am and never had a problem.

It's beyond me why they didn't film on 187th Street and Arthur Avenue.

Haven't been there in ages but I crave a good meal at Dominick's and some canolis from Egidio's.



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[Gringo Star]

Must be a Bobby D thing... I watched "City By The Sea" a few weeks ago and although it was set in Long Beach, L.I., it was filmed almost entirely in Asbury Park, N.J. Not that I minded seeing my own local "Beirut" featured in a movie, but it was more distracting than anything, noticing landmarks and thinking "Wow, Eliza Dushku was hanging out in an apartment above the porn theater".

2:39am?! Don't you have to work in the morning?

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

2:39am?! Don't you have to work in the morning?


No. skidmark is all tucked in and snoring his head off while my cats are running amock in his house.

What's your excuse?

EDIT: :p

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This message was edited by Alice S. Fuzzybutt on 12-29-03 @ 2:58 AM

[monsterone]

what film doesn't do this kind of thing? esspecially with a time related movie

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[Gringo Star]

What's your excuse?

I am currently unemployed and have no scheduled "wake up time". :eg:

The thing with "City By The Sea", though, is that it was supposed to show Long Beach in ruins, but I think Asbury Park goes far beyond what the residents of Long Beach would prefer their home be represented as. And Fuzzybutt has a point. How much would it take to move the whole production for "A Bronx Tale" into the Bronx? I'm sure they could have used the money.

Oh, by the way, I read that the guy who played Bobby D's son in "City By The Sea" may be the lead in a Jeff Buckley bio-pic. He's got the look, but who's gonna sing that shit?

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[KillOReilly]

My Problem with "A Bronx Tale": It wasn't filmed in The Bronx.


Movies are make believe. Just pretend they are in the Bronx.

Lord of the Rings wasn't filmed in Middle earth and The Matrix wasn't really filmed in the Matrix. Movies are fake.

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[SuperClerk]

Some of it was also filmed in Brooklyn. Gravesend to be exact.


My real problem with the movie is where the hell the mother disappeared to? When C grew up, she was never shown again. Did she run away with Phil the Pedler?

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[A.J.]

My real problem with the movie is where the hell the mother disappeared to?

She married Artie Bucco.

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[Iamnotatool]

Seinfeld was filmed in L.A.

So was/is Friends.

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[FMJeff]

Queens is just as shitty as the Bronx.

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[Jack_Doff]

I read that the people who made the movie felt that where they filmed it looked more like old school Bronx then the Bronx does now. Not being from either place it didn't bother me much. Even funnier, I thought, was how in some backgrounds of Rumble in the Bronx, you can see mountains. Apparently, the Bronx is actually part of Canada.

[jafter]

It reminds me of the movie "No way out" when Kevin Costner gets on the subway in Georgetown. There is no subway in Georgetown, and the one they used was in either Canada or Washington state.



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[Freakshow]

The best DC continunity errors are in the move True Lies. When Arnold is on horseback--he starts out in McPherson Square seconds later is in that mall in Georgetown (in the bathroom). When comes out of the bathroom he is now in a 20 story hotel (has to be across the river in Crystal City).

And dont' get me started on Die Hard 2

[Jack_Doff]

The scene in the Exorcist where the priest is jogging is at Georgetown isn't it?

[A.J.]

Yes. "The Exorcist" is a movie that is consistent with site footage. The famous steps are still there as is the house -- both right near the G'Town campus.

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[Freakshow]

An interesting story:

My dad's office is on the canal in Georgetown. He tells a story of them filming the movie Dick (featuring Will Ferrel, and multiple Kids in the Hall alums--it's not very good) where Kirsten Dunst and one of the kids from Dawsons Creek were skipping down the street and turned the corner onto the canal. He made it sound like they litterally filmed for half a day for a couple of seconds of footage. (I think in the actual movie they end up just running and not skipping). They just watched the filming in the afternoon, raising their glasses to extras that had to kiss for the scene.

His office was also scouted to be used in the movie Deep Impact, was used in a series of Sprint commericals, and appeared on the show West Wing a couple of times.

This message was edited by Freakshow on 12-29-03 @ 10:41 AM

[Doctor Manhattan]

There is no subway in Georgetown


The Metro doesn't go into Georgetown?

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[A.J.]

No. The closest it goes is Foggy Bottom/George Washington University.

When Metro was being built, the rich, compassionate liberals who live in Georgetown didn't want a subway stop there because it would "attract the wrong element". Apparently, they didn't think about buses and cars.

Now the area is paying the price for traffic nightmares during rush hour.

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[wilee]

I used to work with a guy who was in that movie.

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[JustJon]

Oh, by the way, I read that the guy who played Bobby D's son in "City By The Sea" may be the lead in a Jeff Buckley bio-pic. He's got the look, but who's gonna sing that shit?
I think Jeff left behind a recording or two for him to lip sync to.

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[Doctor Manhattan]

compassionate liberals who live in Georgetown didn't want a subway stop there because it would "attract the wrong element"


Ha, And the "wrong element" is why I don't go to Georgetown much.

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[PanterA]

how about when the car was on fire? They had all day to get out of that car man.

and shoving a mailman into a pizza oven isnt cool ok...

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[StupidGirlllll]

My problem not really with the movie, was watching it on A&E. It seemed like every other minute they where breaking for commercials.

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[TheMojoPin]

"The West Wing" actually films its exterior shots in DC, and I hate them for it.

One of my piddly jobs during my summer employments with the CIA in my younger days was driving people down to DC and then just "circling" (Yeah, YOU try it. It ain't circling) until they were done wherever they had to go. One day I was down in Embassy Row for a passport pickup and what should have been a 20-minute errand turned into FOUR FUCKING HOURS because Rob Lowe couldn't get his shit together or something.

I HATE The goddamn "West Wing".


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[A.J.]

Good call Mojo. They once shut down Rock Creek Parkway/Memorial bridge during morning rush hour so they could shoot a 5 minute scene.

Fuck them.

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[Freakshow]

They should use a 2 second clip of the outside of the building over and over again like The X Files did with the J Edgar Hoover building. And then film it in Vancouver.

My hometown (umm, town, yeah) of Braddock Heights was actually a "setting" for an episode of the X Files. Something about a mential Institution. I never saw it.

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X-Files, Season 3:



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Braddock Heights, Md. - In another of our field tests, subjects receiving subliminal messages transmitted covertly through their television sets commit homicide on command.


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[MizzleTizzle]

are yall saying that shit wasnt real when they blowed up everything in mars attacks and shit?

[high fly]

I likes how when everything getting blowed up is full of gasoline and shit.
Even in outer space- you blow up a spaceship and its fulla gas and stuff--you get that big yella fireball an shit...

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[Snoogans]

im mad at the movie congo cause it was filmed in Costa Rica, not Africa.

seriously, this happens all the time. Usually it has to do with the cost to film. its alot more in manhattan than it is in queens, so that occasionally comes into play. maybe it was more expensive in the bronx, so they went Queens.

coulda been worse, they coulda filmed bronx tale in philly or something

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[FUNKMAN]

i like Bronx Tale just cause it reminds me of the young black girl in my neighborhood who called me by my last name while i was riding by her house on my bike with the banana seat and let me know( by the tone of her voice ) that we were going to fuck...



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[high fly]

i like Bronx Tale just cause it reminds me of the young black girl in my neighborhood who called me by my last name while i was riding by her house on my bike with the banana seat and let me know( by the tone of her voice ) that we were going to fuck...






Me too.
Well, kinda.
With me, it was a little boy on a bike that had a big ol' sissy bar on it...


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This message was edited by high fly on 12-29-03 @ 5:19 PM

[Zipgun]

The Amityville Horror was filmed in Toms River N.J.

I remember watching it being filmed as a kid, and for years afterward, just going past the house and being creeped out by it.

Years later, the family that owned it had the outside facade changed and then had the ENTIRE house literally lifted by helicopters and moved like fifty yards to the East. I got to go in the house once. It was normal of course, like any other house, but just knowing it was the filming location sorta creeped me out.

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[Doctor Manhattan]

So was this filmed in the Bronx. They have lovely mountains there, huh?

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[Freebird]

Sofaking, Hilarious!!! I was thinking of Rumble when I read the first couple of posts in this thread.:) You beat me to it, and in better style than I would have done.

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[JustJon]

Even funnier, I thought, was how in some backgrounds of Rumble in the Bronx, you can see mountains. Apparently, the Bronx is actually part of Canada.
Jack_Doff beat you to it anyway.

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[Jack_Doff]

Thanks for the help on that one. Also, who in the Bronx ever dressed like that?

[Doctor Manhattan]

I missed Jack_Doff's Rumble comment. Sorry Jack.

At least "A Bronx Tale" was filmed in New York,

Where did they film Good Fellas and The Sopranos?

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[Gringo Star]

Where did they film Good Fellas and The Sopranos?

Not sure about Goodfellas, but I know the Sopranos is filmed exclusively in the NJ/NY area. I'm always spotting places I've been/seen. They film a lot down here on the Jersey Shore, in fact. Asbury Park... the infamous "Pine Barrens" episode... and the summer house they were looking at last season is literally 2 miles from where I live.

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They recently filmed the new season of the Sopranos in the town next to me in Queens.

The worst for locations is Law and Order. One episode of SVU they had Long Island City in Long Island. That pisses me off everytime. Don't they ever do any kind of consulting before they shoot a scene or do they just don't care?

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[JustJon]

Sopranos does all externals in NY/NJ. i.e., the Bada Bing is on Rt 17 in NJ (Satin Dolls), the Pine Barrons, et al. All internals are done on the west coast.

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[Gringo Star]

All internals are done on the west coast.

Actually, that's not true. There's a studio in Queens called Silvercup... you can see it from the 59th St. Bridge, I believe. All internals are shot there.

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[JustJon]

I stand corrected. Thought I read West Coast somewhere.

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[Tall_James]

When I was living on the Upper West Side they closed off my entire block for filming "Sex In The City". It was an interior shot inside of "Compass", a trendoid restaurant (where the food sucks btw). Even though they were doing interiors, I still could not park my car on the street.

I hate that fucking show.


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[badorties]

+ goodfellas was filmed in astoria
+ sorpranos' internals are filmed in long island city
+ the neighborhood scenes in sleepers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/) were filmed in greenpoint
+ all of those 'law & orders' are notoriously bad for trying to park in greenpoint


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[Jack_Doff]

The opening to "thirtysomething" was filmed in Rye back in the eighties, which clearly puts me next to greatness. I remember telling people proudly that my car was in it.
I found their depiction to be accurate in the fact that there were people in their thirties living there at the time.

[Uncle Smokey]

My biggest problem with "A Bronx Tale" is the extent to which it serves as template for the fictional street personas of countless suburban, spikey haired, bridge-and-tunnel guidos in the New York area.

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[TheMojoPin]

The opening to "thirtysomething" was filmed in Rye back in the eighties, which clearly puts me next to greatness.

"thirtysomething" and "greatness"?

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[Jack_Doff]

Nice to see my sarcasm wasn't lost on anyone.

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You used the wrong font, jackass.

See?


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