Do you think New York is a romantic city?
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seaglass · F
No, I tend to think of Europe when I think of romance
swirlie · F
@seaglass
I agree! Somehow, modern glass-covered skyscrapers covering every square inch of real estate around me, doesn't envoke a sense of longing for romance at my hotel room with a lover, unlike Europe or any Scandinavian country in particular. My mind doesn't default to 'romance' anytime I think of the USA.
I agree! Somehow, modern glass-covered skyscrapers covering every square inch of real estate around me, doesn't envoke a sense of longing for romance at my hotel room with a lover, unlike Europe or any Scandinavian country in particular. My mind doesn't default to 'romance' anytime I think of the USA.
swirlie · F
@seaglass
So true! I remember watching a documentary several years ago about the filming of the Wizard of OZ movie in the 1930's.
It was revealed in the documentary that the Writer of the Wizard of Oz wrote in his notes while making the movie, that Kansas which was of course the setting, was actually a fictitious stage setting with the wide open flat fields covered with wheat for miles and miles.
As it turns out, the film setting for the Wizard of Oz was actually shot in Canada, not the USA and the place where the film set was located was in the Province of Saskatchewan which is prairie farmland.
The Writer's notes said "Saskatchewan Canada looks more like Kansas USA in the mind of America than Kansas does!".
But what most people don't know is that Kansas doesn't actually look anything at all like the Wizard of Oz movie otherwise presents it as, which is wide open flat fields of wheat for as far as the eye can see.
Kansas on the other hand, is very rolling countryside with a lot of fence lines and trees that separate farm fields from each other on every farm!
So true! I remember watching a documentary several years ago about the filming of the Wizard of OZ movie in the 1930's.
It was revealed in the documentary that the Writer of the Wizard of Oz wrote in his notes while making the movie, that Kansas which was of course the setting, was actually a fictitious stage setting with the wide open flat fields covered with wheat for miles and miles.
As it turns out, the film setting for the Wizard of Oz was actually shot in Canada, not the USA and the place where the film set was located was in the Province of Saskatchewan which is prairie farmland.
The Writer's notes said "Saskatchewan Canada looks more like Kansas USA in the mind of America than Kansas does!".
But what most people don't know is that Kansas doesn't actually look anything at all like the Wizard of Oz movie otherwise presents it as, which is wide open flat fields of wheat for as far as the eye can see.
Kansas on the other hand, is very rolling countryside with a lot of fence lines and trees that separate farm fields from each other on every farm!
swirlie · F
@seaglass
Interesting experience you had! What the Writer of Oz said in the documentary was that most Americans thought that Kansas had wide open spaces so vast that there was no other place on earth like it.
So what he did was, he found a place in the world that matched the perception that Americans had of Kansas, then made that place his movie set and then called that alternate location "Kansas" throughout the script of the movie and everyone bought it because nobody knew any better!
What nobody knew however, was that he didn't have to travel too far to find that illusive image of Kansas, as it lie only a short distance away on the north side of the Canada/US border! 😂
Interesting experience you had! What the Writer of Oz said in the documentary was that most Americans thought that Kansas had wide open spaces so vast that there was no other place on earth like it.
So what he did was, he found a place in the world that matched the perception that Americans had of Kansas, then made that place his movie set and then called that alternate location "Kansas" throughout the script of the movie and everyone bought it because nobody knew any better!
What nobody knew however, was that he didn't have to travel too far to find that illusive image of Kansas, as it lie only a short distance away on the north side of the Canada/US border! 😂
