Shot location, shame on you Tim!!!

Why not get the geography right you ask? Because it made absolutely no difference to the movie in the slightest manner. Only someone from Tulsa would even notice the things you mentioned & I would guess that most of those people couldn't care less about such trivial inaccuracies. You're shaming the guy for using the wrong kind of tree? This was a movie, not a tourism ad for Tulsa. I can understand this being a casual (and very brief) topic with other locals at a bar, but not sure what the point is in posting this topic on a message board.

Yes, because 'Tim' had unlimited resources to pick and shoot wherever he pleased. Right?

Here's a clue: you aren't a filmmaker. You aren't aware of what compromises have to be made, especially in terms of locations, in order to produce a film. You especially aren't aware of what compromises are further forced by shooting a film on, in this case, an *extremely* low budget (I'd guess 95% of whatever money they had went to the cast, as the film itself looks cheaper than many thesis-films I've seen).

Would it cost that much to fly to 'T-Town' and shoot there? Are you frigging kidding me? Do you often ship several tons of equipment & hundreds of people around the country with your freaking pocket change? No, you don't --- because yes, it'd cost too much.

And for what it's worth, your precious T-Town happens to be in Oklahoma, which is one of *the* most inhospitable states for filmmaking in the entire country. Don't get me wrong --- I didn't think "Leaves of Grass" was actually any good --- but it's so tiresome to be in this industry and have every yokel on the planet convinced that they know how to produce a film.

Yeah, I'm sure Tim Blake Nelson is going to respond to you VIA IMDB, shut up Hawk, Oklahoma sucks anyways, especially there sports teams!

"Xcuse" me, but I agree with the OP -ESPECIALLY about the trees - OK trees (natural ones, not cultivated) look stunted and gnarly when compared to the forests of much of the rest of the country - there's a huge difference. And I think most people from the "middle" states NE, KS, MO, OK, TX, AR and maybe even CO and the Dakotas would see that the landscape isn't right. Not only that, but that couldn't have been the Arkansas river - it had water in it!

And please, no lectures on the difficulties of filming locations for small budget movies - Coppolla managed to make three feature-lengths in Tulsa and environs - and all we purists asked of this movie was a few establishing shots.

I wondered about the airport and the buildings along the highway, but I've been gone a long time and knowing how Tulsa loves to pave over any empty space,I took that in stride.

I do have to say though, that I was dising Nelson's Okie accent until I looked him up on IMDB and found out that not only was he raised in Tulsa (like me) but we went to the same private school!!!!

I still don't think the accents - even of my revered Ms. Sarandon were right. I remember ages ago, seeing a dialect coach on a talk show who said that Okie was the most difficult American accent to master. It's similar to most other "country" speech of the South and West, but there's this tricky, subtle difference. In Nelson's defense, however, I don't remember any of my classmates (or myself) sounding characteristically Okie - and I have to admit that I can't imitate it either. I can do lots of other credible accents, but not my "own." So Mr. Nelson might have found himself somewhat of a stranger in his own land in this regard.

I lived in Washington DC for 20 years, and believe me, - Washingtonians, residents of a seat of global power and influence, were just as quick to see all the inconsistencies of place and geography (Hey! You can't get there off that exit!) as any provincial viewer seeing his home territory portrayed on the screen.

They are in Idabel, OK at night - Outside - Under lights - In Summer - WHERE, I ask you, are the bugs?? The set should look like a Stephen King short story. Oklahoma is where all the insects go to get their revenge on humans. Clean windshield from Virginia to Arkansas - cross the state line - Horror show!

Someone said the trees in Oklahoma look "stunted and gnarly" but that isn't necessarily true in the southeastern corner of the state where this was. See
www.redriverhistorian.com/mounttourlittledixie.html
for a picture of some scenery in SE Okla.

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Some scenes/shots were filmed in a little town called Plain Dealing located in North Louisiana.