Ok, Hollywood, so I’m coming to your city next week and I need some help. You see, It seems that your studios are incapable of making a movie set in modern Boston that doesn’t focus on an adrenalized overblown seedy side of the city. For example, the most recent mainstream movies I recall having been filmed here are “Mystic River”, “Gone Baby, Gone”, and “The Departed.”<\/p>\n
Randy and I just saw the latter the other night. I liked it…this sort of movie isn’t normally my cup of tea, but I was engaged throughout. But it sure painted Boston as the seediest, most crime-ridden city ever. I know we some history here, but this movie would make it seem that we’re losing state police officers to mob violence left-and right (by the end of that movie, I think at least 4 cops were killed in the line of duty…in the last few minutes alone). In reality, aside from the ongoing search for Whitey Buldger, I never hear of gangland style murders anymore.<\/p>\n
Plus, you show people smoking up a storm in bars (yet we have a smoking ban), and you show people at a huge porn theatre (we have none….hell, we only have two strip clubs in the entire city).<\/p>\n
So, Hollywood, could you do us a favor and shoot some films outside of Southie and Chelsea? I mean, the Back Bay is quite lovely. Beacon Hill could charm the shit out of you if you’d give it a chance. Maybe you could do for Boston what Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” does for New York City?<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t the Public Garden be a lovely locale for a key scene in a romantic comedy? So go find out what Sandra Bullock or Meg Ryan are up to. I’ve not seen them in much lately. Hell, cast those two as the romantic couple (this is Massachusetts after all and it’s legal here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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