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Thread #87607 Message #1636928
Posted By: katlaughing
29-Dec-05 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Contemporary Film as Ballad Updated
Subject: RE: Contemporary Film as Ballad Updated
Wyoming, the least populated state, does not have the infrastructure to support a film crew with its many needs that range between contemporary technologies and good housing and transportation. It is impossible to tell the film was not made in Wyoming.
That seems a bit off in that "Starship Troopers" was filmed there and there is a Wyoming Film Office. I suppose mostly it was the fact she says it was cheaper to be made in Canada. As to whether one can tell if it was shot in WY or not remains to be seen. I am very familiar with Riverton and the other places she writes about.
Contrary to what she says about some Wyomingites not liking her "realistic" characters, the only complaint I have about them, in the story, is, as I said before, her use of rhetoric which doesn't ring quite true to the native ear.
I agree with whomever it was she said told her she should write novels and not try to cram so much into a short story!