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| Your city in film by ndd 11/05/2011, 9:39pm PDT | ||||
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| Talking to Sophia about American cities tonight, I brought up this:
which is a reasonable portrait of Portland. And then I was annoyed b/c I couldn't think of an equivalently elegant summation of Chicago, and then... (9:12:56 PM) dumbass: hahaha honestly I think the ultimate chicago moment on film happened in a deeply embarrassing place so nobody ever talks about it (9:13:12 PM) dumbass: it's a sequence from an 80s movie called Adventures In Babysitting (cute tho stupid movie) (9:14:05 PM) dumbass: where the Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDnJ0vXUgw) plays while the babysitter and her kids head through the tunnels of Lower Wacker Drive en route to a place they don't really know or trust, while on the run from busting up a nightclub and car jacking ring (remember she's 21 (BARELY!) so things like the Rolling Stones and Adventures In Babysitting are equally incomprehensible to her.) Anyway this is the essential Chicago film moment for me because it involves transit, reprocessed blues, the late 60s, dealing with shit on the fly, and Lower Wacker Drive. BUT.... I MIGHT BE WRONG. I've lived in Portland for like 12 years now and it fucks with one's grasp on distant shores. And then I watched that one dude's documentaries about Wisconsin supper clubs and fish fries (the brandy old-fashioned is the cocktail I've had the most often by volume, though I always order a g&t in mixed company.) Regional shit matters. What is the essential film or TV representation of your town or neighborhood, Caltrops? |
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