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The local "buzz"....

TimH

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The little town(pop. about 400), where I went to school, is all a-buzz!!
They are shooting a movie there!!!
It is called "The Lookout" and stars Jeff Daniels, but I don't think he is in any of the scenes they are filming in town.
They turned the museum,which used to be a store and built around 1910,into a "bank". They also gave some other buildings , including one of the few old wooden grain elevators left standing, a "facelift".
A few of the locals got jobs as extras. I plan on tormenting them for an autograph every time I run into them!!

Thats pretty much the extent of the excitement around here!!! :D
 

HAY MAKER

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I hope it aint another broke back,I can just see ole BMr trying out for lead man?
Seems like making movies of small town America is popular these days they just got thru shooting two of them here in Comfort TX,they acually tried to get me in it, needed a few characters I said hell no some lady that thinks I owe her something will see me and start cold trailing me............good luck
 

ranchwife

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Tim---sounds like our little town when the almighty Steven Segal came here a few years back and shot the movie "the patriot".....at first, town folks were primping and preparing to treat he and his crew like royalty...that soon wore off when we all realized what a jerk that man is!!! Caused alot of grief for the townfolk as they came and tore things up and left alot of mess and alot of angry feelings behind!! Sure hope your little place fares better!! :D
 

TimH

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ranchwife said:
Tim---sounds like our little town when the almighty Steven Segal came here a few years back and shot the movie "the patriot".....at first, town folks were primping and preparing to treat he and his crew like royalty...that soon wore off when we all realized what a jerk that man is!!! Caused alot of grief for the townfolk as they came and tore things up and left alot of mess and alot of angry feelings behind!! Sure hope your little place fares better!! :D

From what I hear, everyone is pretty happy with the whole deal. The crew and the locals seem to be getting along just fine.
It's too bad about your experience with Steven Segal. I never liked him or his movies.
I just read, in the local paper,that the setting for this movie is "Noel, Kansas". They picked our town because of the way that the "bank" and the old grain elevator "lined up with the sun". :roll: Go figure!
I'd like,someday, to visit the place where thay filmed "Dances With Wolves" which , I believe was in South Dakota. Beautiful country. :)
 

Jinglebob

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TimH said:
ranchwife said:
Tim---sounds like our little town when the almighty Steven Segal came here a few years back and shot the movie "the patriot".....at first, town folks were primping and preparing to treat he and his crew like royalty...that soon wore off when we all realized what a jerk that man is!!! Caused alot of grief for the townfolk as they came and tore things up and left alot of mess and alot of angry feelings behind!! Sure hope your little place fares better!! :D

From what I hear, everyone is pretty happy with the whole deal. The crew and the locals seem to be getting along just fine.
It's too bad about your experience with Steven Segal. I never liked him or his movies.
I just read, in the local paper,that the setting for this movie is "Noel, Kansas". They picked our town because of the way that the "bank" and the old grain elevator "lined up with the sun". :roll: Go figure!
I'd like,someday, to visit the place where thay filmed "Dances With Wolves" which , I believe was in South Dakota. Beautiful country. :)

Yup, here in good ol' SD. They filmed in about 5 or 6 spots. The one of the village and the horse herd, was close to us, in the Belle Fourche river breaks.

The buffalo and civil war scenes were on the tripple U buaffalo ranch and a farmers corn field, near Pierre.

Ft hays was down by Caputa.

The snow and mountain scenes were in the Black Hills, not too far from Spearfish.

A neighbor spray painted the grass green with an iron wheeled wagon and team, so as to not leave modern tracks. He tells some interesting tales of what he saw and did.

Costner like the country so well, he built a saloon/casino/sports bar/fancy restuarnt, called the Midnight Star. They will happily take your money at the gaming tables. :lol:
 

TimH

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Costner like the country so well, he built a saloon/casino/sports bar/fancy restuarnt, called the Midnight Star. They will happily take your money at the gaming tables. :lol:
I'll enjoy the countryside,the cattle and the conversation if I get a chance to visit but I'll pass on the gaming tables.
I don't really have anything against gambling but I just ain't all that lucky at it. :D
Once,when I worked construction, me and another guy went for supper in a bar where they had VLTs(Canuck for one armed bandits).
There was a lady,about mid 50's,playing the VLTs right beside us. In the time it took us to swill 3 or 4 beers and eat a steak she had pumped $800 into that machine(we were watching). Maybe she could afford it but she didn't look like it to me.
Anyway, it kind of turned me off of gambling. Owning cows is more than enough risk for this kid!!! :D :wink:
 

Kato

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They filmed a movie in our town too. Turned the bank into a court house. It seemed pretty exciting at the time, but actually when we watched them filming one day, it turned out to be quite a slow process. My ADD couldn't handle the slow pace. :wink: :D It was good for the town though. Ed Asner was the star, and he turned out to be a really nice guy. The movie wasn't Oscar material, but it was fun to see the town librarian run screaming into the camera in a panic!

Tim, remember when they filmed that Russell Crowe movie near Virden and Brandon years ago? Apparently when they did some of the winter scenes, they used truckloads of instant mashed potatoes for snow. Imagine needing fake snow in Manitoba......
 

Manitoba_Rancher

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Kato said:
They filmed a movie in our town too. Turned the bank into a court house. It seemed pretty exciting at the time, but actually when we watched them filming one day, it turned out to be quite a slow process. My ADD couldn't handle the slow pace. :wink: :D It was good for the town though. Ed Asner was the star, and he turned out to be a really nice guy. The movie wasn't Oscar material, but it was fun to see the town librarian run screaming into the camera in a panic!

Tim, remember when they filmed that Russell Crowe movie near Virden and Brandon years ago? Apparently when they did some of the winter scenes, they used truckloads of instant mashed potatoes for snow. Imagine needing fake snow in Manitoba......

Kato, Some of that movie was filmed right in a pasture we rent. And the old Rivers airbase was used and thats only 5 miles east (too think that were 10000 hogs housed right beside where they filmed it.) of here we could watch the ole planes flying around when they were filming it. Quite interesting.
 
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