Hollywood can’t trick a Palm nerd

[Stevetoad]

I was watching the movie “grown ups” tonight. Adam Sandler says “I’m the biggest agent in Hollywood” (the House is in Los Angeles ). Then goes outside. Can anyone see what’s wrong with this scene.......

 

[kurt decker]

We have green guys from the production companies down here buying things all the time to dress sets. Here's a semi load of palms heading to Atlanta last week to create a jungle effect on a set there. Adonidias won't grow in Los Angeles. But they can be shipped from Florida and look terrific on the day they're shooting.

[Palmcycasnut]

I do the same thing. My wife gets annoyed when i  point out there not really in cali!

[Coasta]

Same!!! When watching the O.C almost all of there palms are fake!

[Palmcycasnut]

Yeah fake palms are ridiculous! 

[Marius]

Or a scene is set in a specific country in a jungle or wild area, but none of the plants are native to where it’s supposed to be. 

[Gonzer]

Gilligan's Island is the all-time champ.

 

[Moose]

I see scenes all the time that are supposed to be Miami and all you see are Washies 

CSI Miami was the worse.

[Darold Petty]

How about cookabura calls in the African jungle !   

  In some of the old Tarzan movies one can see Washingtonia trunks,  I believe these were filmed at the LA Arboretum in Arcadia, CA.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

It bothered my delicate sensibilities when I noticed all the long shots of "Robin's Nest" on the new Magnum PI are CGI fakes.  Why do they need to computer generate palms in Hawaii?

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

2 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

How about cookabura calls in the African jungle !   

  In some of the old Tarzan movies one can see Washingtonia trunks,  I believe these were filmed at the LA Arboretum in Arcadia, CA.

Don't forget all the Date palms in the middle of the jungle.  Also the peacock calls in Africa.

[Jan Jo]

Yep, my wife gets pretty annoyed when we're watching a film and I say things like "Sure, of course ancient Greeks and Persians had Bismarck palms imported from Madagascar, and Adonidia from the Philippines, to decorate their palaces more than 2000 years ago... " (Colin Farrell's "Alexander" if I remember correctly) 

Edited September 13, 2020 by Jan Jo

[PalmatierMeg]

Many years ago when I lived in VA I saw a TV commercial for a mini-series called "Back Stairs at the White House" and it featured the cast of White House servants marching across the House's front lawn against a backdrop of soaring Washingtonia robustas. I didn't know their generic name but I had worked 1-1/2 blocks east of the White House and can attest no Washies or palms of any ilk ever grew there.

I've seen numerous commercials filmed on the beaches of Malibu and Venice, CA with pumped and addled hipsters gyrating in front of cardboard cutouts of coconut palms.

 

[Coasta]

Lol, I love this community and how we all notice the same things when it comes to fake palms/palm specific locations. 

[quaman58]

But Gilligan's Island was all ligit, right? Right?! My childhood depends on it..

[chad2468emr]

2 hours ago, Moose said:

I see scenes all the time that are supposed to be Miami and all you see are Washies 

CSI Miami was the worse.

THIS! As a South Florida native I was also so eager to point this out and my friends look at me like I’m crazy. (I probably am) 

Dexter was the worst for me. They filmed some of the earlier seasons in Miami which is where it was set and I was living for the authenticity. And then all of a sudden all I could see were washies and “Miami beach” looked a little different than it was supposed to because they moved production to LA. It made the show much harder to watch for me when most normal people would never have even noticed. 

Also, since my eyes are so trained to automatically point towards even the briefest silhouette of a palm, it cracks me up when shows are set in the NE and I notice palms in the background when people are driving. NCIS, Shameless, and The Office are really guilty of this. Everyone’s wearing winter jackets and a blue filter is over the screen to make it look “cold” and then I see a 40 foot washingtonia in a shopping plaza outside their car window, hahaha. 

Edited September 13, 2020 by chad2468emr

[NCFM]

Lol. The other night when my family was watching Full Metal Jacket, I made sure to point out the incorrect use date palms for the Vietnam scenes. They think I'm crazy for noticing this stuff. Did some research and it turns out the entire movie was shot in the UK, and they imported date palms from Spain for a "tropical" look 

[Palmfarmer]

Remember i got disapointed when i found out that Reno had no Palms after watching Reno 911

[JASON M]

I notice it all the time during driving scenes on TV shows. Driving from NYC to the Hamptons and they pass a skirted Washingtonia? I don’t think so

[RedRabbit]

It is kind of annoying when they’re obviously not where they claimed to be. They try to pass California off as Florida a lot,  but then you see a palm you know doesn’t live in Florida or maybe a mountain and it’s pretty obviously not FL. LOL

9 hours ago, quaman58 said:

But Gilligan's Island was all ligit, right? Right?! My childhood depends on it..

That show was awesome. I grew up in the 90s watching all the old reruns on late night TV. I don’t care how fake the set was or all the special effects.

[Darold Petty]

Ginger or MaryAnne ??

[Fusca]

52 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

Ginger or MaryAnne ??

MaryAnne.

I remember seeing CIDP and Washingtonia briefly during old M*A*S*H reruns (S. Korea) as well as Hogan's Heroes (Germany).  I also thought it was funny that almost every show had white powdery fake snow on the ground that never melted as well as fake ice on the Kommandant's office windows.  I always thought Germany had spring, summer and fall seasons...or did everything in that show only happen in winter?

[Moose]

1 hour ago, Darold Petty said:

Ginger or MaryAnne ??

Definitely MaryAnne

[jimmyt]

Palm Nerds ruining my Movies! Geez! 

[GottmitAlex]

Star Wars Rogue One.

[Jubaea_James760]

'The Office'. Suppose to be Scranton Pennsylvania but you see large Washingtonia Robusta's off in the distance LOL! It was a super quick flash of them. My wife use to get annoyed too but I think she's starting to respect my investigational skills now, she gave me props on this one 

[sandgroper]

14 hours ago, NC_Palm_Enthusiast said:

. Did some research and it turns out the entire movie was shot in the UK, and they imported date palms from Spain for a "tropical" look 

They should have filmed it in Surrey, apparently that's what it looks like!

[Gonzer]

18 hours ago, quaman58 said:

But Gilligan's Island was all legit, right? Right?! My childhood depends on it..

Rest easy, it was real. The only non-legit thing was; why didn't the professor ever try to fix the boat?

[Frond-friend42]

Karate kid: "watch out for falling coconuts".

[Fusca]

4 hours ago, Gonzer said:

Rest easy, it was real. The only non-legit thing was; why didn't the professor ever try to fix the boat?

You don't remember the episode where they used MaryAnne's "maple syrup" to glue the planks to the boat and it caused the entire boat to fall apart?  LOL!

[Tyrone]

I remember watching “Lost” a series that never ended. The jungle was full of Dypsis lutescens. So they weren’t really lost they were in Madagascar..........but probably filmed in Hawaii. 

Yes, I thought I was the only one who did this. Some movies are authentic though. The Hunt for The Wilderpeople is full of Rhopalostylis sapida.

[akamu]

Ginger 

[Gonzer]

6 hours ago, akamu said:

Ginger 

Mrs.Howell....I like mature women.

[sipalms]

18 hours ago, sandgroper said:

They should have filmed it in Surrey, apparently that's what it looks like!

@sandgroper, you read my mind! That's exactly what I thought.

There's a sad side to this though. Where are they going to shoot films portraying the UK in a dark, cold grey, green-less winter?

It'll be impossible soon because that big ole sun will be streaming non stop all winter through all the skydusting washingtonias, Queens and even Royals that apparently are shooting up everywhere, soon to create a palmy skyline, all over the southern UK....

[thallo]

 

[GottmitAlex]

5 hours ago, sipalms said:

@sandgroper, you read my mind! That's exactly what I thought.

There's a sad side to this though. Where are they going to shoot films portraying the UK in a dark, cold grey, green-less winter?

 

I suspect there are many parts in southern England which are quite green during winter.

I implore everyone engulfed in this pointless bickering to desist.  You're overlapping "shots over the bow" onto different threads.

Thank you.

 

 

 

[sipalms]

@GottmitAlex, I would implore you to stand up for actual data and facts, not gross exaggerations of data, and fake photography.

I was referring above to vegetation as in trees. The vast majority, I mean literally the vast majority of the UKs natural bush cover is deciduous trees, which gives the appearance of a complete lack of colour in winter (just like driving through Illinois in January). Trust me, I have spent time in the UK in December and it was extremely noticeable. Depressing actually. No sun, no colour . That is something you do not notice in warmer climates or the Mediterranean/subtropics where evergreens are common if not prominent. You're in northern Mexico, no doubt you know what I mean.

Anyhow, I'm sorry for the thread 'spillover' as you say.

I would suggest if you want to see New Zealand's native palms in a movie, watch 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' as @Tyrone mentioned, although I doubt if Hollywood had anything to do with it!!

[RedRabbit]

On 9/13/2020 at 9:53 PM, Darold Petty said:

Ginger or MaryAnne ??

Mary Ann singlehandedly makes up for any of the shows other shortcomings. lol 

[PalmatierMeg]

Back in the early 80s I visited my brother-in-law and his wife in the Thousand Oaks area of So Cal. I remember my BIL pointing out the front window at all the scrubby, dry brush in the distance. He said, "You know they film Dukes of Hazzard over there."

Dukes of Hazzard was my two sons' most favorite tv show in the whole world. I knew they would be impressed that their uncle was so lucky. I gazed at those dusty, arid hills and unpaved paths dotted with half dead brush and wondered if any of the show's Hollywood producers had visited or even seen photos of lush GA countryside. Cue rebel yell.

[Josue Diaz]

LOL So many scenes from the Office that were CLEARLY NOT set in Scranton PA. Most of the scenes where they're riding in a car were filmed in Southern CA - you can see the attempt to blur our phoenix canariensis and washingtonia poking up in the background. 

Also, in This Is Us, when Kevin goes to a rehab facility, the front of the facility is planted with strelitzia. You can see washingtonia trunks also lol