Superman Returns To Save Sydney!
If you've gone to see the new Superman movie, you'll notice that there's a lot of Sydney in it. Some people have called Superman, Brandon Routh's performance wooden as opposed to the star, Sydney, who was pure sandstone.Sydney-siders may have found their Superman experience very distracting. One scene has a woman driving wrecklessly through the LONGEST Martin Place i've ever seen. Martin Place could probably be driven through in 12 seconds IF cars were even allowed drive through it. There are way too many fountains and stairs although no busy restaurant. (below: shot from Superman)
As you see, Martin Place is a very open area with no eateries.
Her car is stopped by Superman just in front of this fountain. In the picture below, ALL those bins and hydrants are fake. It's also so weird to see yellow taxis driving around Sydney since they don't exist here.
Martin Place and this fountain were also in The Matrix movie, so it's quite famous (WAY more famous than that uppity Town Hall)
The movie even went to the liberty of altering the Sydney logo on our street signs into the Metropolis logo.
But quite differently to the picture above, our street signs don't have imprints of shoes where people have walked on them.
(real Sydney street signs)
It seems the Superman people just clagged on their own logo to the side.
Lazily again, the street advertisements in Superman haven't changed much.
(shot of Superman)
(shot of Sydney)
In the movie, almost all the extras have Australian accents and not like in movies filmed in America, there are lots of polynesian people walking around the streets.
Back to Martin Place again, with these losers on steps gawking up at Superman.
Though in real life, it's a bunch of skaters falling over... no one stops to gawk at them.
I'm not sure about this next one, but I think the Metropolis Museum is actually the NSW Library. You may not think so looking at the pictures but there's a shot in the movie of Lex coming out of the building and nowhere else in Sydney looks like that.
( A museum in the movie, heavy CGI all around)
(The NSW State Library in real life)
There's also a shot at the end of the movie of a huge crowd outside a hospital. This is especially weird for Sydney siders since that's just a train station. No healing there... unless you include gross homeless men who carress you after hours.
So thanks to movie magic, Sydney became Metropolis. I can only wonder if it was a scenario similar to that Simpsons episode when they film The Radioactive Man movie in Springfield.
I would have liked to have seen even more monuments included. Maybe Sydney University's quad could have been used as Lex Luther's evil lair. The his evil plan can be to magnetise Sydney Tower so anyone with a piercing gets thrown towards it. Yeah... I should be a movie director.
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