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Latest post Sun, Nov 1 2009 9:33 AM by Usenet. 4 replies.
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MC    958606 Sun, 01 Nov 09 12:21 AM

Just watched What Doesn't Kill You. A decent, workmanlike tale of a couple of guys in South Boston who get sucked into a life of crime. Well written. Pretty good. Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo are both solid.

BUT... there's quite a passage of time - five years - as they serve prison terms. And when they get out, the weather is IDENTICAL to the day they went in.
Problem is, they shot in winter, and there's a lot of snow around. Once I noticed it, I found it pulled me out of the narrative. All I could think about was the logistics of production. It's really too bad they couldn't have shot some of it in spring.

"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones
MC
swagg  , 26 days ago

"Just watched What Doesn't Kill You."

Oh, she was JEALOUS!! and it did kill her.
swagg    958616 Sun, 01 Nov 09 12:35 AM

"Just watched What Doesn't Kill You."

"Oh, she was JEALOUS!! and it did kill her."

Sure, I've waited for this moment.
Look at that. Then look at you.
Steven J. Weller    958621 Sun, 01 Nov 09 01:04 AM

"Just watched What Doesn't Kill You. A decent, workmanlike tale of a couple of guys in South Boston who get ... think about was the logistics of production. It's really too bad they couldn't have shot some of it in spring."

This is why weather is such a pain in the ass, in production terms. If it'd all been shot in the summer (like, say, everything shot in SoCal always is) you'd never have noticed. One of the things I liked about the Bourne movies is that time passes - sometimes it's summer, sometimes there's snow on the ground. To a certain extent it's also about geography (it's pretty much always summer in southern India, and never really gets all that balmy in Moscow) but they went to the trouble of adding snow for some scenes (when Berlin doubled for Moscow in #3) and it really makes a difference.
The thing I thought you were going to go for wasn't the weather, but how everybody seems to get out of prison (or some other long passage of time) looking pretty much exactly the same as when they went in, in terms of AGE. If you're lucky they'll slap a moustache on the guy as he's headed out the gate, but most of the time it seems like there's a super reading "10 Years Later" and it looks like "Later That Same Day."

Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary
Steven
Remysun    958782 Sun, 01 Nov 09 09:33 AM

I just had this conversation with my nephew over Facebook. My cousin's family stayed here about year ago while he was hoping to pick up an extra assignment.
Him
is it already winter?
Me
No. Fall. Just like when you left.
Him
is it cold though?
Me
To you or me?
Him
there's no cold season here so the AC is always on

Me
But were you cold when you were here?
Him
nope
Me
That's the weather we got then.
What can I say? He wasn't cold, but my Action film buff Uncle Padre froze his butt off at dewpoint. In June.
If the interval was a year and a half, or some other fraction, you could expect a different season, but not if we're dividing evenly. A year is a year is a year.
But yeah, making Boston look like Antarctica is its own problem.
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