9/25/2023 0 Comments Blinded by the light cast![]() ![]() ![]() You want that sense of place, that sense of the city as a character. Because you don’t want it to be some generic town where you end up shooting wherever the tax credit is. And whenever somebody sends me a script to read, I always ask myself, where is this taking place? It’s the first question. “Whenever I go to a city, I think of the movies that have been shot there. It’s the same way her own Bend It Like Beckham was vividly located in the Hounslow neighborhood of London, and the way her new film gives viewer a strong time-and-place sense of the British town of Luton, where in the 1980s, a British teen, son of Pakistani immigrants, found his dead-end life changed by Springsteen’s music. She’s a director who doesn’t want to make a movie unless it’s specifically about a place, and what she loves about the original Rocky is the way it was so steeped in the physical reality of ’70s Philadelphia.
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