What is it with the excessive wet down streets with puddles?? Overdone. It's one thing to use it for visual style - but C'mon!?
shareThey must of have filmed after the rain stopped on the sets lol other wise maybe the crew guys were throwing buckets of water on the streets lol
shareYeah, and all if the L.A. Streets are spotless! No garbage on the ground, all the cars are shiny and clean. No crappy beat up cars? No bums, or dirty buildings.
shareI noticed that too. Must be a film noir thing. I remember reading a Mad magazine film noir parody years ago. In one a the panels had in the background a guy hosing down a street. The hose was attached to a tank truck that had printed on its side" "Making Streets Look Like it Just Rained Company"
shareYah! haha I grew up in LA and I never saw it rain as much in 20 years as it does in 20 hours of film.
Jim Prideaux! (our hero!) That is the one from the original Alec Guinness version. I didn't understand the remake Prideaux as well.....
Might be a salute to the "Miami Vice" TV show.
HudsonDuster - For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad
Glad you picked up on it! Of course taken from the Alec Guinnes version which was way better than the movie that came out a year or two back. Also I had an original handle of "JimPrideaux" without any numbers but somehow it disappeared in IMDB cyberspace.
shareWhen I was a kid I used to say the same thing about the Untouchables' slick Chicago streets. My grandfather told me that back in those days they used more water trucks to wash the streets, to minimize the ubiquitous slop and litter.
shareOT: [Yes, Prideaux...the less said about that dreadful film a couple of years ago the better!]
OT: There might have been some serious problems with the plot in the film, as well. I've been searching for my book of TTSs to check some things to see which was correct: The film or tv series.
I never miss an opportunity to stroll down Bywater Street. :-)
Not sure if I heard it from a buddy who was in a communications class, or from talking with a film crew, but one of the reasons they wet the streets during night shots is to make it look 'brighter', with the water also giving everything a 'glistening and reflective' appearance. Dry streets look 'flat', and when the films were all in black and white, you needed something to make it stand out.
Of course, the 'puddle' shots really would have needed a good rain, though.
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Especially when the reflection in the puddle is some awful effect. I think in episode 3, when Tegue is approaching the hotel and steps in the puddle with the reflection of the hotel sign, so bad it completely removed me from the viewing experience. It was supposed to be a call back to old style of story telling but instead took me right out of the story. After that shot, I began to question everything about the direction and editing. You know you're in trouble when the viewer is spending more time questioning the motives of everyone behind the camera than those in front of it.
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