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Too soon: Movie company won't recreate Tsarnaev manhunt, shootout in Watertown
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From all other sources I
From all other sources I heard most were in favor of having it filmed there? No?
From all other sources I
From all other sources I heard, most were in favor of not making the movie at all.
Where are you seeing and
Where are you seeing and hearing that other than uhub, which is expected?
Too soon sounds right, which
Too soon sounds right, which is too bad, because it really should be filmed there, when the time is right.
Why?
Why does it need to be filmed at all?
Also, that street looks like thousands of others in the area. Why there ever?
Why?
I don't see why it ever needs to be filmed there. They aren't making a documentary. This isn't a "story which needs to be told".
A bunch of executives will profit from the actions of two horrible kids who killed five people and wounded 200+. Why should anyone support this film?
Why make any movies then?
Seriously, get over yourself. This movie isn't being made for you, or necessarily anyone from Boston for that matter. It's being made for the millions of people who may live outside of Boston who were not up close and personal with the story, but are interested in the situation and what the people of Boston went through for those 5 days.
It's not like it's being based on a sympathetic Rolling Stone article glamorizing the Tsarnaevs, it'll most likely be how the city, and the people in it, survived and have risen up from a terrible situation.
Oh, and yea, people will make money off it, but that's life.
Whatever
If someone wants to make a serious documentary, fine. Otherwise, it's an attempt to profit and glamorize a horrible situation. Make no mistake: They'll get most of the important facts wrong anyway. Just because it's common for bottomfeeders to profit off other's misfortune does not mean I need to support it.
There has been a plethora of good reporting for anyone interested in the real story.
I'm curious.
What important facts do you know they'll get wrong?
Look, if you were personally effected by this tragedy, I'm sorry for that. However, this is not the first or last movie made that has been about a real life situation in which people were killed, maimed or traumatized. Don't like it? Don't see it.
the best part about holocaust movies and books
is how glamorous they make it seem. truly, i wish i could wear a yellow star of david and be shipped off in a train (which probably worked a lot better than our MBTA!!!) to a concentration camp. truly glamorous. these are ideas that i gleaned from the media related to the subject. because i am the type of person that sees the world in such a simple fashion that obviously movies = fun and happy and glamorous and can never show a serious side of things.
nobody has ever cried at a movie or while reading a book because thankfully every book, movie, song, and piece of art is created for the sole purpose of making me so gleeful that i consider the heinous topic it might be about GLAMOROUS
that being said they were utter idiots for thinking those scenes needed to be filmed in the same neighborhood for any reason at all.
Are you kidding?
Let's retraumatize everybody while we make a movie.
Are they filming at the Marathon finish line?
If so, Watertown town officials should keep their collective traps shut.
It's a bit different
Nothing against Watertown, but there are scores of streets that could stand in for the shootout and manhunt areas, but Boylston Street and the finish line are unique. And this is coming from someone who works in the Back Bay (and doesn't care that this movie is being made.)
Boyston
If they wanted they could easily recreate the finish line with special effects, a sound stage, plus a few hours of 2nd unit photography. It would look identical to the real thing. As recreations go this isn't particularly complex.
They'd need to do much of this anyway if they wanted to be "authentic" as Boylston St has changed since before the bombings. And it's not as if they are going to set off real bombs on the actual street for the movie.
Yeah
Exeter Place (which didn't get damaged) had its facade rebuilt and the Forum is now a memory, but still, filming on some street in New York or Toronto and claiming it was Bolyston Street would be far fetched.
what?? are you daft?
so because one group of people might feel victimized, other people should subject themselves to it as well and just deal with it?
cool logic, kid
Movies
I think people like Mark Wahlberg and Ben Affleck just sit around waiting for disasters and high profile crimes to happen around here so they can turn them into exploitative movies featuring stereotypical "Boston" characters with inaccurate accents.
I take issue
With the film-ification of any major current event/actual occurrence too close to the time it happened. A certain amount of time is required to gain some distance and perspective, as well as absorb the long-term ramifications of the event, both for society to understand it in proper context and for the writers to frame the narrative arc of the script correctly.
Additionally, no one wants to see a reenactment about something that just happened. It's like filming a home video of Christmas morning and then making everyone rewach the video over brunch. Unless you were involved in production, it's just a rerun.