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I live in LA and usually don't watch video content but when I do it's a fun game. Movie geography is wacky; you'll have the actors on a street in say, Long Beach and then they turn a corner and it's in Glendale, then enter a building and they're in Santa Monica and look out a window to see New York.

I really love seeing the details on the larger sets. At one of them they had these vintage cars on sunset blvd that would roll by as background for a period piece. Everything down to the wardrobe of the actors driving the car, the license plate tags, even the book the actor had on their dashboard was from the 1970s. None of this would show up on screen - there's not enough pixels to capture it. The effort they go through is really quite something.

They had traffic cops hold back the regular cars and then you'd hear "action" and see the 1970s cars start driving by in the background as the actor came out of the cafe or whatever they were doing ... it was a huge ceremony behind a fairly irrelevant scene.

Also action scenes in car chases are crazy to watch. They have these skilled stunt drivers that just do the choreographed crazy fishtail and skidding maneuvers over and over again. They're really good.



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