. . . if it was set in a real Irish neighborhood. Hell's Kitchen hasn't been heavily Irish in thirty years. I know the neighborhood slipping away from them was one of the themes, but that's pretty old hat and by 1990 Hell's Kitchen hadn't been an Irish neighborhood for a long time.
shareYou must often be disappointed if authentic locations are your pet peeve.
For comparison's sake, do you raise the same complaint about The Departed? Boston was used sparingly, and most of it was shot in New York.
Your gripe is unwarranted anyways; State of Grace is very loosely based off of the exploits of the Westies, and Hell's Kitchen was their former territory. Shifting it elsewhere would have reduced authenticity even more. Filming it there allowed for the highest degree of verisimilitude possible.
"...if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street." ~ an irate Tarantino
"You must often be disappointed if authentic locations are your pet peeve.
For comparison's sake, do you raise the same complaint about The Departed? Boston was used sparingly, and most of it was shot in New York."
I said "set," not "filmed."
"Your gripe is unwarranted anyways; State of Grace is very loosely based off of the exploits of the Westies, and Hell's Kitchen was their former territory. Shifting it elsewhere would have reduced authenticity even more. Filming it there allowed for the highest degree of verisimilitude possible."
I know it was based on a Hell's Kitchen gang, but if the movie was going to be set there, they shouldn't have harped on it being an Irish neighborhood, even if they did make a lot of the incoming yuppies and so on. Setting the movie in a real Irish neighborhood (such as Woodlawn, Windsor Terrace, Marine Park, or any number of others) wouldn't have "reduced authenticity."