[at-l] Re: My guess where they'll film the Redford/Newman

[infinity1plus1 at yahoo.com (Robert)]

"If" is the key word in all the statements. I don't think anyone is really alarmed about anything. I also doubt that the movie will be filmed on the AT, and very thankfully so, but we just love a topic to ramble on about... don't we?

Lilla Thompson <lthompson@hollins.edu> wrote:I think this speculative alarm is all just a tempest in a teapot. The
likelihood that the movie (or anything more than a few establishing
shots for the movie) would be made on the trail is probably practically
nonexistent. Think about access to the trail and the logistics
involved. Many, many movies aren't made where the story is set. JMTC

Lilla


-----Original Message-----
From: at-l-bounces@backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:31 PM
To: Raphael Bustin; at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] Re: My guess where they'll film the Redford/Newman

Sadly this is not always the case. Things do change as a result of
people making movies or otherwise popularizing something. I think the
worst thing though is not that seeing this movie will hurt the AT, but
rather that making the movie, if it is filmed on the actual AT, will
hurt it. I don't know how many of you have been on a site where a movie
is being filmed. Damage occurs. A great deal of damage occurs. I can
only imagine what that damage would be on the AT. Aside from the influx
of trash from a cast and crew without concern for the environment, these
same people will be tromping back and forth over the land. And not just
the trail, but everything around it. Hollywood is famous for causing
damage and then repairing it after they finish filming, but how do you
repair a nail hole in a tree, or a hundred nail holes in a tree, or a
hundred nail holes in each of a 100 trees? Not a pleasant thought. I
hope they make the movie. I really do. I just hope they don't make it
anywhere near
the AT. Not that anyone will notice, but the trees will be happy.

Raphael Bustin wrote:At 09:20 PM 7/18/2005 -0400,
Rogene wrote:

>Is there any reason to hope for something different?
> >Unoquively YES.
>I don't want to fight the crowds that will/might come to the At before
I can
>get my hike done. Everything else I agree with. But then again it might
make
>people want to buy land near it to live.
>Rogene


Several million people walk on the AT every year.
I've heard estimates from 3 million to 6 million.

And this is as it should be. It was designed to be
"maximally" accessible to the inhabitants of
America's east coast sprawl.

This becomes evident as you walk across the
Hudson River on the Bear Mountain Bridge and
gaze south at the New York City skyline (and if
not from the bridge, from any of several ridges
nearby.)

Crowds on the AT happen rarely. You want
to thru-hike without crowds, leave from Springer
well before mid-March or April.

The trail is nearly 80 years old. America's
attention span is about fifteen minutes. One
movie won't change a thing. (And Bryson
himself makes a similar point in his book.)


rafe b
aka terrapin 


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