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They're always filming in NYC, and they use lots o' electricity
Night. But this might better be called "Night for Day." These
were taken at one of the courthouses in downtown Brooklyn . . .
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and at the library on 5th Ave. What were they filming?
I never did find out, but if I were to guess, I'd say
Law and Order for both (those guys are everywhere).
There was some kind of major filming on a Sunday night at UCLA a couple weeks ago. More than half-a-dozen huge white trailers on a side street, humming generators, thick black cables like skinny electric eels wiggling in their stationary way, taped to the red bricks of a walkway, wending their way down a south edge of Dickson Plaza, and then around a corner and down to the cramped Humanities building facade where the eels chomped down onto the brightest focused lights, spewing the brightness of a portable sun, crew members like alien prospectors come to Earth to mine a chunk of our here and now, lifting it away and apart from us, sweeping it up into their lenses, to hold onto it, contain, maintain, refine and sell it, no longer contiguous from the place and time of its origin.
ReplyDeleteLike you, Alexa, I found the sight to be eye catching. But I had a dinner to attend and, like the proverbial horseman, passed on by.
TG: wow—and here I thought they were just making a stupid movie. I once watched a scene being filmed with Harrison Ford across the street from my house. It took about 6 hours, and when I finally saw the scene in Presumed Innocent, it lasted exactly 11 seconds!
ReplyDeleteAh yes! Eleven seconds. So much better than the cutting-room floor.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of yesterday, it seems just that since we saw Harrison Ford in American Graffiti. Yet, quite a difference from Presumed Innocent. Let's forget about him more contemporaneously. It's likely to remind us of our own mortality.
TG -- yeah, well, he's still kinda dishy.
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