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Geographical mistake?

posted 16 years ago by sexyscissors
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I'm sure this won't mean much to anyone outside of Brisbane but i noticed this and was wondering if anyone else did?

When Dan gets picked up from the airport in the beginning of the film, they are shown driving over what i believe is the Storey Bridge? I could be wrong about the name, but i do recognise it. Anyway, the lane they're in is going in the direction of the Sunshine Coast. Now, i would assume Dan had arrived at the Brisbane International Airport.
And from what i recall of basic directions, it goes something like this:

Sunshine Coast<<<<<<<Brisbane Airport<<<<<<<<<<Storey Bridge.

Because the airport is on the northside, and it looks like they're travelling on the bridge coming from the southside... so they did a big loop?

Feel free to correct me if i'm completely wrong :D

[–] xiangk 16 years ago

no, the movie is full of these sorts of mistakes... you're quite right.

[–] el-526 15 years ago

They shouldn't really be on the Storey Bridge at all. Not of they're going to Toowong

[–] brookejthomson 15 years ago

Yes, first thing i noticed.

Also when they went on the 'picnic', the three of them, they went via the airport (I actually recognised the road because I grew up near there), and they ended up at UQ lakes or New Farm Park (not sure where). But they started at West End (I assume it's west end because he catches the ferry from Mowbray Park). Didn't make sense!

But, better than adaptations of Brissie books that aren't filmed in Brisbane, but are still SET in Brisbane, e.g. Praise.

[–] cavalon 14 years ago

He calls a duck a "grey teal" when it's actually a Pacific Black Duck.

Later they see a ringneck dove and he makes up a name for it. I may be mistaken but I don't think we have any feral populations of ringneck doves in Australia. I've read ringneck doves have been too inbreed to survive in the wild.

I'm guessing the duck thing is not a goof, instead I think they made him stupid.

But to see a ringneck dove is a surprise, they should of used a Spotted Turtle-Dove, there are plenty of them here.

[–] et_tu_Brute 14 years ago

It's called poetic licence... don't forget that this film is financed by the Pacific Film & Television Commission(now Screen Queensland), Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) and Film Australia Limited, Australian Film Commission (AFC)(now Screen Australia) and in return the producers are expected to cherry-pick location shots and show Brisbane/Queensland/Australia as a film location in the most attractive light. As they are government agencies/corporations, it's about how the purse strings are controlled... just another form of 'product placement',

It's about self-promotion in the hope of attacting future film production, tourism, business & national population migration than worrying about either the geographical semantics or the pedantics.

Cheers & beers

et tu Brute

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