{"id":6752,"date":"2015-03-26T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2015-03-26T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:53:51","slug":"movie-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6752","title":{"rendered":"Movie magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my all-time favorite movies is the 2012 film Cloud Atlas<\/em>. I love this film so much, I watched it at least 5-6 times already. Indeed, I went beyond merely watching it: for the first time, I actually contributed to IMDB, by describing some obscure goofs<\/a> and anachronisms that I discovered in the film by accident.<\/p>\n

I find it especially interesting\u00a0how a high-budget movie can recreate a scene from the past. The movie features a storyline that takes place in 1973 San Francisco. However, it was not filmed in San Francisco, but rather, Glasgow, Scotland. Here is one example of a scene from the film vs. the actual street as seen on Google Street View (the overlap is not exact, but close enough I think):<\/p>\n

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Some of the changes were physical decorations no doubt; other changes were likely just clever use of CGI. Either way, I am impressed. Of course I loved the old cars, too.<\/p>\n

I was somewhat less impressed by the fact that the film’s version of Van Ness Ave was a rather narrow, one-way street. That’s not the Van Ness Ave that I know! Nonetheless, it didn’t take anything away from the film, which for now, and for the foreseeable future, remains on the top of my list. Why? To quote a character from the film, it’s about “just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes… over and over.”<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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