Film Locations Disturbing me!
ok so i realise everyone is more disturbed/upset/empowered by the Homosexual content of this film ..
..but I, as an English, and Northern (born but stayed in Cambridge for 4 years ;o) ) dwelling person am extremely wound up by the location cackhandedness (as in, oh this will do, lets hope no-one notices)
The boys went to Oxford for their interviews......however the scenes were filmed in Cambridge university's grounds.....this to American readers would be like pretending they were applying for Yale, but filming it at Harvard....or vice versa ;o)
The boys are all from Sheffield right? South Yorkshire....so im watching it thinking.....HANG ON that looks like Claremount round Shibden Park (I live here and not many films are filmed round here) through IMDb i found out that actually....all scenic shots are Halifax and Elland...which is where i live (less than a mile away)...a small (tiny in world terms) town in West Yorkshire, which has hills that Sheffield does not.....which is a good hours drive away from Sheffield (yeah this may not seem a lot in USA terms but in English terms, its a good 1/3 of the country away....and a whole different landscape)
Why not just film it in Sheffield like the Full Monty guys did? If its set in Sheffield it should be in Sheffield....Sheffield is closer to London (Hollywood) anyway!!!
The Abbey the boys went to visit....on a worldwide scale no-one would notice, maybe only 50% even on a British scale....but half of it was Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds and half of it was Fountains Abbey in Ripon .......is it a magic Abbey? (hey why not through in some shots of Whitby Abbey with the sea behind it just for Romanticism!!)
I cant be alone on this.....there is a HUGE Northern population that would have noticed.....let alone the entire population of South Yorkshire out now trying to find the bridge where the bike crash was......