As a native Wyomingite, the commercials for this movie annoy the living crap out of me. It looks like this was filmed in New Mexico. New Mexico and Wyoming are very different places, both the climate and scenery and people and attitudes. None of the scenery in this movie looks like Wyoming. Most movies and TV shows, when they purport to be in Wyoming, are not shot anywhere close. This bothers me.
shareMy family is from Wyoming too. I hear what you are saying, but until Wyoming is willing to change their tax incentives for film productions, there is no way anything is going to be filmed there. Filming locations are determined more by budget constraints, tax incentives, and available/local film crews, then they are by the actual scenic backdrops.
shareListed under filming locations:
Galisteo, New Mexico, USA
(rodeo scene)
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Pecos, New Mexico, USA
(ranch)
Roy, New Mexico, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
That is probably why it looks like New Mexico.
exactly where in wyoming is this supposed to have taken place? Cause I'm from Laramie and the southern part of the state is not like what the previews make it out to be at all. We don't all wear cowboy hats and wranglers and our roads are paved. Also what part of wyoming are you guys from? it's rare I get to talk movies with anyone from my home state.
shareI hate to break it to you, but you're not being especially mocked here. Virtually every movie ever made gets huge parts of the location wrong.
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Well - I live in Jackson Hole and I only have seen the preview at the cinema. Some of the wyomingesque attributes I could connect with, such as the unexpected bear encounter, animal heads on the walls - we do have a lot of western kitsch here. I've been to other mountain towns in WY that do have no paved roads, modern conveniences, etc. A lot of people do dress 'western' here - but by no means the majority - it IS a lot more laid back than a lot of places in the US. I mean we are the 9th largest state with the smallest population (around a half million). BTW - did they ever start to snowplow the side streets in Laramie?
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I'm from Newcastle (north east), but have some cousins from Laramie.
shareIt was supposed to take place in Meeteetse.
shareI'm not surprised to learn that Wyoming may have fiscal policies that make it prohibitive to film there, so that's why NM was used for the locations. My question is, why bring Wyoming into it at all? The plot of the movie needed a fairly rural location with a certain type of people to contrast with Manhattan...New Mexico fills the bill just as well as Wyoming.
shareA think a good reason for Wyoming to be mentioned, is that is a place of high toutist interest, there is a nature closer life, there... The bear's sudden presence in "Did you hear about the Morgans" was among best scenes. But they also needed stuff from NM! In NM i think - though i did'nt ever visit that place or US ever, they have "rodeos" with wild bulls for local entertainement spectacles, they wear cowboy hats! All these apart, the reason Wyoming is mentioned in that film, is it's high tourist attraction! There is a pure "country-style" way of life in Wyoming i think!
shareQuestion is, why didn't they locate the witness protection program in New Mexico, then ? :D
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I also wondered why they didn't just do the story in New Mexico - it wouldn't have changed anything except saying NM instead of WY in the dialogue.
shareProbably because when you look at a list of states, it's easier to hit <end> and hit Wyoming than have to work so hard searching for New Mexico. I'm just glad it wasn't in Canada, which is what I expected(not that I'm badmouthing Canada).
This could just as well have been a 30 minute episode of "Heartland"
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Because most people hear Wyoming and say where is that? I'm a native raised in Cheyenne my whole life. I love it here, probably because there are so few people. :-)
shareI live in New Mexico and can tell you that it was filmed in the northern part of the state. I live in the southern part and it is very different. People tend to forget that most of the southern half of the state is desert.
shareNew Mexico is basically a violent, impoverished #&@%hole (believe me, I know, I live in the worst part, the south), but Governor Bill Richardson provides tax credits to filmmakers so many recent movies have been made here, including this one. Terminator: Salvation and Denzel's upcoming Book of Eli are two recent examples; if you want a post-apocalyptic, no-hope landscape and want to save a little on CGI, no state is better. I'm surprised more zombie movies aren't made here. The locals could just play themselves.
shareI live in the south of NM also. They should come to my town to film stuff. We are definatly stuck in the 1800's here. LOL
shareMy main question was about the country accents - do people in Wyoming really sound like they're from Texas? Hollywood seems to think that every small town in America has a southern accent.
share I got news for ya - go to Texas and not everyone you meet sidles up to ya and says, 'Hey, pard...'
In fact, last time I went to Texas, I couldn't find a twangy Texan accent. I guess you have to go outside the cities to find that.
Funny thing - I was listening to a guy give a lecture about math from a university in Houston. He sounded just like Owen Wilson. I looked up Owen Wilson on nndb.com and found out he's Texan!
People in Wyoming (all 500,000 of them) in no way sound like Texans. They sound fairly standard American with a slight 'western' accent (a bit more laid back and laconic). Matthew Fox from Lost is a typical example, as is Gerry Spence, or even Dick Cheney for that matter.
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I live in Cody, WY... The airport looked nothing like the airport here and the town was a little too green. We do not have an Applebees but do have a Walmart. Maybe it was suppose to be Meetesee or Clark both are smaller towns with dirt roads close to Cody, and Mr. Brimley does have a house near by. The attitudes of the locals was a true and fair representation. We do have a great mix of culture here in Cody, and not everyone is a cowboy or cowgirl. That being said we do have a good fair share of true western spirited people here, and it is expressed daily, sure the local shoot out at the Irma Hotel with Buffalo Bill Cody and the Rodeo every night, June- August, not to mention Yellowstone National Park and the great outdoors helps inspire us all. I liked the movie and felt it was a pretty fair representation of Wyoming even though it wasn't filmed here. I suggest you come to Cody, Wyoming and decide for yourself.
shareI grew up in Wyoming, and this movie just had me seeing red. It was just so condesending and inaccurate. Damn. Anyway, I just posted this review for it:
Maybe if your entire universe is limited to New York and L.A., you might not realize how offensive this movie truly was. As someone who considers myself fairly cultured, and definitely on the liberal side politically, this wasn't the Wyoming I know and love.
I suppose there is the temptation to portray small town folk as ignorant, backward thinking yokels who are too foolish to know how uncivilized they are. But, don't fool yourself into thinking this movie portrayed Wyoming. Don't get me wrong; Wyoming IS a conservative state, but it's not some ignorant form of conservatism. It's a place where people are fiercely independent, mindful of their individual freedoms, and largely have a live-and-let-live attitude.
In my two decades spent there growing up, I never felt like a fish out of water. Exactly the opposite was true. People are friendly, welcoming, and grateful to live in such a treasure of a place. That's what this movie missed. I get that they were trying to go for easy laughs about the characters in a fish out of water setting, but instead they too-often portrayed Wyoming as hell on earth. Anyone who truly knows the place knows this is laughably incorrect, and this was just lazy, uninspired filmmaking.
Yeah, would have been nice to place that whole witness protection business in NM where the movie was shot. But those incredible tax incentives have made NM old hat.
Wyoming is exotic (thank God), so movies will be "placed" there but no one is going to shoot there (thank God).