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Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
- keepamovin 1y agoHeh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoSounds like something a giant spider would say ;)
- keepamovin 1y agoAh yes us sydneyspiders - I mean Sydneysiders - we're always looking for delicious - I mean gullible - I mean curious tourists in Sydney, and their dollars. We really don't have enough hehehe! :)
- dylan604 1y agoEspecially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me
- ajxs 1y agoWe call them 'pedestrian crossings' down under! It's been sampled in a few songs actually. The sound is so ingrained in our psyche that you recognise it instantly.
- dylan604 1y agothe only one ingrained deeper for is Blade Runner's "walk now"
- worthless-trash 1y agoI was surprised to see the pedestrian crossing button right in the centre of the woman in the red dress scene.
- bitwize 1y agoThe one that really baked my noodle was seeing Melbourne play the role of Boston in Knowing (2009), which it did fairly well if you don't look too closely.
- keepamovin 1y agoLike that film, but holy shit I did not know that was Melbourne! No way. Have to go back and watch. Classic Cage hahaha :) also nice Matrix reference
- wkat4242 1y agoThat's why Sydney was so popular. The CBD has a really American feel but prices and wages are Australian. Fox studios had a huge campus there. Not sure if they still do.
- tim-- 1y agoIt's now Disney Studios (https://disneystudiosaustralia.com/ https://disneystudiosaustralia.com/) after Disney's acquisition of Fox. There's 9 large sound stages. A large amount of movies are filmed there. The lease of the land at the time was controversial. > The rental was $2 million, payable over 40 years. However, the payment date was not specified, and the deal proceeded with an initial $1 per annum peppercorn rental, in return for which the government was obliged to spend $75-80 million on site works for the benefit of Fox https://archive.cpa.org.au/guardian/2004/1201fox.html https://archive.cpa.org.au/guardian/2004/1201fox.html
- wiether 1y agoIIRC that topic was discussed in an episode of Utopia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/
- dehrmann 1y agoParamount also used to have a presence there.
- throwaway992673 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider The males like to wander around aimlessly looking for mates.
- jeffwilcox 1y agoPlus the Wachowskis have Chicago street names throughout.
- magarnicle 1y agoYou have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.
- Wololooo 1y agoYou remind me of a movie that I can't remember the name off but it was a low budget American spy movie that was shot in Europe through European subsidies targeted at getting work in Europe for cinema crews. One shot is supposedly happening in an American city, but it's shot somewhere in Brussels, where they discuss people hiding, then you got a transition shot where now they are supposed to be thousands of km away with said people hiding, and the second shot is filmed in the building across the street. Many other shots were also combination of places that I knew extremely well, which really was funny at times because once you locate everything it makes the whole situation much more comedic.
- throwaway422432 1y agoThat can make for a very weird viewing experience. "Oddball" was filmed in an Australian town I grew up in. There was a chase scene that combined and compressed multiple locations. In one particular scene you are looking at an extra with a backdrop of part of the main street, but the location he is looking at (supposedly directly across the road) is actually about 1/2km away.
- alex1138 1y agoNeo fights giant Kangaroo Smith
- Calwestjobs 1y agoi would watch neo nazi vs kangaroo fight.
- caz2000 1y agoThere's roos (or at least Wallabies) that graze on a big golf course on the other side of Sydney Harbour. They've been known to make it onto the highway and cross the bridge into the city - just near where the red dress scene was filmed.
- dehrmann 1y agoWhen I visited Sydney, it felt like NYC with LA weather and cars on the wrong side of the road. I knew it was filmed there, but hadn't put together that it was filmed around the corner from where I stayed, and I walked by multiple filming locations.
- femto 1y agoThe giant spider is actually a thing. Earlier this year, the "Newcastle Funnel Web" was identified as a new species: bigger and deadlier than the Sydney Funnel Web Spider. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/researchers-prove-three-distinct-species-iconic-funnel-web/104814368 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/researchers-prove-thr...
- jazdw 1y agoI used to catch them in my backyard as a kid, never saw one that big though!
- cjrp 1y agoDidn't they have to reverse the footage of cars (like when Neo is climbing outside out of his office building) so they look like they're driving on the right-hand side?
- Andrex 1y agoAll that work and the elevator still says Lift.
- Jedd 1y ago(Sydney-sider here) I have a vague memory of people being asked to drive around with a passenger, with the driver holding the wheel down load (twenty to four?) - while the passenger held their arms up high, as if they were holding a wheel.
- caz2000 1y agoThe Wachowskis have said they chose Sydney specifically because it reminded them of Chicago, which is where they wanted to film. That said I think it surprised everyone in Sydney how it ended up looking on film.