Apr 17 2008
Did You Say Pittsburgh?
Being from a city founded on war time steel production, blood and guts style football, and an atmosphere which rotates between ten shades of gray, I as well as any Pittsburgher, will use each and every opportunity to flaunt whatever culture descends upon our great hometown. It just so happens that the city in question has had an overload of film production as of late.
You may be asking yourself how does Pittsburgh do it. The city cannot provide the luxuries and refinement that Hollywood stars rely on, it doesn’t have the talent to field a big picture, and there is no way it has the weather conducive to filming or even standing outside for extended periods of time. And while these may all be true statements, it may be this glowing assessment of the city that has attracted so many large movies.
Something must have impressed Sarah Jessica Parker when she visited in 1993 to star in the Bruce Willis boat chase movie “Striking Distance”. It only took her fifteen years to make a return visit in order to film the recent critical hit “Smart People”. Or how about Kevin Smith who must have been so enthralled by his time in Pittsburgh filming “Dogma” that he not only filmed, but set his new movie “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” in the Steel City. I guess its not even worth mentioning that the Michael Chabon adaptation “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, his second Pittsburgh based novel/major motion picture after “Wonder Boys”, was filmed in ……Pittsburgh. Even first timers like Viggo Mortenson who traveled to Pittsburgh to star in his most recent film, was surely not expecting architectural landmarks or dramatic sweeping landscapes to act as impressive backdrops to his acting, but rather an ashy post-apocalyptic world for Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”.
So please go support these movies in hopes of repeat and threepeat Pittsburgh performances from the big stars.
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