Sometimes you have to have your city reflected at you through the eyes of an outsider to see its best bits.
, the recently released action movie starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt shot in Australia last year, features an action-packed race down Sydney’s George Street. Swerving around civilians on his e-scooter, Gosling beats the closing doors of the L2 Light Rail to Randwick, before crashing out a window through the other side of the carriage.
Maligned by locals since it opened four years ago as the public transport you catch when you want to travel through the city at a bit quicker than walking pace , Sydney’s light rail has become an unlikely movie star.In case you haven’t noticed: smile, Australia, you’re on camera. Hollywood’s strikes are over, and the films shot Down Under during the pandemic and its aftermath are now being released. Not all of these movies are set here, but watch closely and you can spot the local production.
We like to think we know what the world thinks of Sydney. But cinematic Sydney, and perhaps also the Sydney of our popular imagination, is a “Sydney 2000” Sydney. A city with a frivolous, flashy monorail, not a functional light rail. Have we been blind to the George Street light rail as a Sydney icon? What could be more Sydney than a shiny red car that stops right outside an exponentially growing number of Merivale restaurants?On the big screen, the light rail looks really cool. Modern, slick, pedestrianising a main street and getting people from A to B, and running until the early morning for all of your late night dining and action-sequence filming needs.
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