Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech

[dfwgator]

Much of it was filmed in Weirton, W.Va., though. I believe the wedding scenes were filmed in Cleveland. The film is supposed to take place in the western Pa. area, as I recall, but then there are the inexplicably huge mountains in the hunting scenes that look more like Colorado. 

As in so many of her movies, I believe Meryl was completely miscast in Deer Hunter.

IIRC she was in the movie to be near to her dying boyfriend, John Cazale.

[mirraflake]

Much of it was filmed in Weirton, W.Va., though. I believe the wedding scenes were filmed in Cleveland. The film is supposed to take place in the western Pa. area, as I recall, but then there are the inexplicably huge mountains in the hunting scenes that look more like Colorado. 

As in so many of her movies, I believe Meryl was completely miscast in Deer Hunter.

Mingo Junction Ohio was another area of filming.

@mountaineer

[CSM]

@CSM

Do you have a source for this quote?

@Machiavelli @goatprairie @mountaineer

I am the source.  Yes, it was sarcastic or satirical.  However, it is a fair assumption, given her her silence while all of that use of government power was being used to bully the folks she opposes.

[goatprairie]

Much of it was filmed in Weirton, W.Va., though. I believe the wedding scenes were filmed in Cleveland. The film is supposed to take place in the western Pa. area, as I recall, but then there are the inexplicably huge mountains in the hunting scenes that look more like Colorado. 

As in so many of her movies, I believe Meryl was completely miscast in Deer Hunter.

You are correct about the mountains. The deer hunting scenes were shot near Mt. Baker, Washington state.

[goatprairie]

@Machiavelli @goatprairie @mountaineer

I am the source.  Yes, it was sarcastic or satirical.  However, it is a fair assumption, given her her silence while all of that use of government power was being used to bully the folks she opposes.

fair enough. I've done the same thing. 

[mountaineer]

Mingo Junction Ohio was another area of filming.

Mr. mountaineer is from Weirton and his mother grew up in Mingo. 

[Lando Lincoln]

Much of it was filmed in Weirton, W.Va., though. I believe the wedding scenes were filmed in Cleveland. The film is supposed to take place in the western Pa. area, as I recall, but then there are the inexplicably huge mountains in the hunting scenes that look more like Colorado. 

As in so many of her movies, I believe Meryl was completely miscast in Deer Hunter.

It has been many years since I saw the flick, but I recall the deer to be a variety different from the whitetail of that area.

BTW... I lived in Poland, Ohio near Youngstown and worked near New Castle, PA.  My sons were born in Youngstown.

[Lando Lincoln]

Yep, that ain't Pennsylvania.

[musiclady]

It has been many years since I saw the flick, but I recall the deer to be a variety different from the whitetail of that area.

BTW... I lived in Poland, Ohio near Youngstown and worked near New Castle, PA.  My sons were born in Youngstown.

We've talked about Poland before, but I had temporarily forgotten that you once lived in my home town.   

And about that photo............... just drove through PA from DC back to OH, and that sure don't look like what I saw!

Beautiful mountains in PA (actually I prefer them to the Rockies), but they're not that majestic by any stretch.

(Movie audiences used to be a bit more naïve, so they didn't work very hard to authenticate the locale).

[Wingnut]

Second Week Of Deer Camp

[goatprairie]

Second Week Of Deer Camp

If I threw out the term "Yoopers," would anybody here know what I'm talking about?

[Lando Lincoln]

If I threw out the term "Yoopers," would anybody here know what I'm talking about?

You becha, don't you know.

[Wingnut]

If I threw out the term "Yoopers," would anybody here know what I'm talking about?

Does a party store sell beer.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

If I threw out the term "Yoopers," would anybody here know what I'm talking about?

I know, because I was once interested in buying a "Yooper scooper" which is what people in that area use to shovel small light amounts of snow that apparently fall frequently in that area.


https://www.google.com/search?q=Yooper+scooper&oq=Yooper+scooper&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


This is according to product literature.

[goatprairie]

I know, because I was once interested in buying a "Yooper scooper" which is what people in that area use to shovel small light amounts of snow that apparently fall frequently in that area.


https://www.google.com/search?q=Yooper+scooper&oq=Yooper+scooper&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


This is according to product literature.

My father grew up in the U.P. (Calumet), but I never once heard him use the term. He and his family moved  to Detroit during The Great Depression. Maybe the term hadn't been invented yet.