Editing the bike races

Well, we all know that they shoot movies out of order and that also happens to the landscape when they're editing the film.

I biked the Tour of the Moon (this year in fact) and have also biked both ways up to Echo Lake beneath Mt. Evans, it was fun to see how they shot the scenes. In the National Monument, they biked both directions, but it was edited to look like one long solid ride. Also, they show the cyclists crossing cattle guards, but the only way to do this is to either leave the Nat'l Monument and go south toward nothing... or come from that direction (there's nothing out there but some super small communities), and enter the middle of the monument, only to have them cut to the cyclists right down in Grand Junction, entering the Monument normally.

The effect is that the cattle guards are between Grand Junction and the Monument (no reason for them to be there), and also that the Monument ride is longer than it really is. (I think in real life they looped the Monument 2 or 3 times.)

Later, as they're biking up toward Echo Lake (Muzzin trying to push David off the side of the road), they're actually biking eastward, away from the lake, and toward Evergreen (which is still 15+ miles away, downhill). The Arapaho Range can be seen in the background.

Fun to see these edits and how they change up the world I know and love :)

Similar thing happened in the third Indiana Jones (the one with Sean Connery); at the beginning, the scouts are moving farther and farther into a crazy desert with beautiful rock formations, when in reality, they're bouncing around some of the closest formations of Arches Nat'l Monument, and the park roads are just off camera hahaha. Silly but fun.