Turkey does not border Russia
It can't be that difficult just to look at the bloody world map before making utterly stupid mistakes as: "Russian border - Turkey".
"What If" is a game for scholars.
Timothy Dalton, The Lion in Winter (1968)
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The scenes in The Avengers set in Stuttgart, Germany, were actually filmed in Cleveland, Ohio.
In Iron Man, the scenes set in Afghanistan were filmed in Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California.
In Die Another Day, the scenes set in North Korea were filmed in Maui, Hawaii.
The Last Samurai was not shot in Japan, but in New Zealand.
In Amadeus Prague was used as a stand-in for Vienna and in The Bourne Identity Prague stood in for both Paris and Geneva.
Filming somewhere else to represent a certain location or country is very common in film making.
And nowhere in Hitman does anyone say that they crossed a border from Russia directly into Turkey. There were a few scenes of them on the road. They start out in Russia, even though the scenes were filmed in Bulgaria, and arrive in Turkey at some point. Since this is not a road movie but an action flick there was no need to show the whole trip.
"America and England are two nations divided by a common language." - George Bernhard Shaw
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I don't try to look smart. I know I am.
I have never been to Bulgaria and I'm not interested in famous landmarks. Therefore I have never heard of the places you mentioned.
I'm a British citizen living in Germany with my Italian wife. You might say I am pan-European and I have friends that come from all over Europe, and I'm quite certain most of them wouldn't be able to name even one of those landmarks you go on about.
Just because you know them doesn't mean everybody else has to know them, too.
Apart from that, the vast majority of target audience - which is almost exclusively not from Bulgaria - would not have noticed, because they don't know the places. So, there is not much chance of that making the film makers look stupid, although there are plenty of other things wrong with this film that do.
It's just a film. Get over yourself.
"America and England are two nations divided by a common language." - George Bernhard Shaw
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My favorite was "Hoffa", with Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito — where the Detroit airport had mountains with snowcaps in the background, and palm trees too.
shareThe problem here is clearly not that the film was not shot in Russia. It's the subtitle "Russian border - Turkey" which is a place that doesn't exist. Unless Hitman takes place in alternative history were Turkey borders Russia.
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