Bah. Is there a word for something you don't want to see, but something compels you not to look away? I can't think of one, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Germans have a word for it
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First impressioninfrogmationSeptember 18 2007, 02:38:35 UTC
I saw a fair amount of it, in between cooking and serving dinner. Not as bad as I feared it might be, but as you might gather, my expectations were set low indeed. Some very non-New Orleans sounding accents (especially the bald police chief), but fortunately it avoided having everyone talk like Penelope Pittstop or such.
Ms. Hollie and I got laughs out of the action sequences, with a chase starting in the French Quarter, turning the corner to be under the bridge on the West Bank, then in the CBD (for, say New York, like driving in the Lower East Side, turning the corner and being at Newark Airport, then right down the street you're in Harlem...).
The French Quarter is certainly the last neighborhood of the greater Metro area you'd want to posit a drive-by shooting. Unless perhaps you have the shooters be ignorant out-of-towners, who when trying to make a get-a-way immediately get caught behind a mule-drawn tourist buggy going 3 miles an hour and the cops catch them on foot....
Setting in some ways suggested NOLA 3 to 6 months post-K, not two years. (Though they missed such potentially colorfull local post-K items as the arted curb refrigerator and home-made street signs...)
I saw some excellent local musicians briefly as extras, but unfortunately the sound track used them little if at all. I hope they got a good paycheck from it. Speaking of good paychecks, a car with "two FEMA checks"? Is she supposed to be a hooker who's been getting various locals to give her their checks, and then got a nice car for $4k? (Myth of easy megabux pouring in-- Folks around here who lost everything -- hard working tax payers who lost house owned outright, car, businessess-- who hoped to get more than 2k to 5K have had to brave unending bueracaracy that a friend has compared to having to do your taxes every day for a year and a half... yada yada ask locals for more detailed stories...)
Gratuitous local refrences: Gumbo gumbo gumbo, fixing fried shrimp po-boy for one self at home.
More or less right: Cops who left during the disaster were made known they weren't welcome back by their collegues who stayed; a reference to a thinly disguised Blackwater and its connection to a "certain political party". (hmm)
Re: First impressionurbeatleSeptember 18 2007, 04:30:58 UTC
Setting in some ways suggested NOLA 3 to 6 months post-K, not two years.
Thanks, this helped me figure out "K-Ville" probably means "Katrina-Ville", which would explain why I've never heard New Orleans called that. But here's a question: how common is this expression in New Orleans? Or is it just something TV people made up?
Ms. Hollie and I got laughs out of the action sequences, with a chase starting in the French Quarter, turning the corner to be under the bridge on the West Bank, then in the CBD (for, say New York, like driving in the Lower East Side, turning the corner and being at Newark Airport, then right down the street you're in Harlem...).
The French Quarter is certainly the last neighborhood of the greater Metro area you'd want to posit a drive-by shooting. Unless perhaps you have the shooters be ignorant out-of-towners, who when trying to make a get-a-way immediately get caught behind a mule-drawn tourist buggy going 3 miles an hour and the cops catch them on foot....
Setting in some ways suggested NOLA 3 to 6 months post-K, not two years. (Though they missed such potentially colorfull local post-K items as the arted curb refrigerator and home-made street signs...)
I saw some excellent local musicians briefly as extras, but unfortunately the sound track used them little if at all. I hope they got a good paycheck from it. Speaking of good paychecks, a car with "two FEMA checks"? Is she supposed to be a hooker who's been getting various locals to give her their checks, and then got a nice car for $4k? (Myth of easy megabux pouring in-- Folks around here who lost everything -- hard working tax payers who lost house owned outright, car, businessess-- who hoped to get more than 2k to 5K have had to brave unending bueracaracy that a friend has compared to having to do your taxes every day for a year and a half... yada yada ask locals for more detailed stories...)
Gratuitous local refrences: Gumbo gumbo gumbo, fixing fried shrimp po-boy for one self at home.
More or less right: Cops who left during the disaster were made known they weren't welcome back by their collegues who stayed; a reference to a thinly disguised Blackwater and its connection to a "certain political party". (hmm)
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Thanks, this helped me figure out "K-Ville" probably means "Katrina-Ville", which would explain why I've never heard New Orleans called that. But here's a question: how common is this expression in New Orleans? Or is it just something TV people made up?
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