Hollywood blockbusters Anyone But You and The Fall Guy have focused global attention on the city’s most famous landmarks, but are they missing the real city?
In thousands of cinemas around the world last weekend, movie-goers watched Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt reigniting a romance against the spectacular backdrop of Sydney Harbour, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge in the Hollywood action comedyA few months ago, it was Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell falling in love around the same internationally famous landmarks in the romantic comedy“Within half a millisecond, everyone in the world knows where you are,” film location manager Jeremy Peek said...
will almost certainly do that. But there are great swathes of the city with filmmaking potential as well.“How we represent our city and our country really informs our national identity,” she said. “The stories we tell don’t just reflect reality, they help us shape it.”Davis has a point: whenever Hollywood movies are shot in the west or south-western suburbs, where much of the city’s population lives, they are generally set somewhere else.).
Lazarus thought there was potential at Prospect Reservoir and the fast-changing urban landscape of Parramatta. There were also stories with international appeal yet to be told in the city’s multicultural communities. “There’s so much more of the city that has yet to be exposed by filmmakers,” Gluck said. “The thriving contemporary vitality of Parramatta, the historic charm of The Rocks, the artistic scene in Newtown, the charm of Paddington, the beauty of Tamarama ... You have a story? Sydney has a location.
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