Brixton tube on "Lost" - kind of

[laptop]

TV is anything to go by, 99% of Americans arriving in London for the first time get off the tube at Westminster station.

Except the station's been moved to the third arch of the bridge out from the north shore...

 

[clandestino]

The worst was the Mummy Returns. They managed to have the London Eye and the Houses Of Parliament on the same side of the Thames. It was like they'd just lobbed a bunch of CGI images of London into their computer and then just peppered them around to suit themselves. Nice work if you can get it.

 

[beeboo]

British stuff is often as bad - did anyone see that god-awful NY-LON series. Every flippin' episode seemed to involve them having to cross Waterloo Bridge at night in a taxi.

 

[Bob]

Got it in one ! Everyone knows that things like that happen on pacific islands all the time !

That's a comment for the Pacific Island forum fool.

 

[Bob]

Did they really buy the old sign and fly it out to Hawaii? Seems unlikely to say the least.

It does amuse me how quaint the makers of Lost are with their depiction of the UK, though, including the language they have the actors using, and that wonderful loft apartment which Charlie lived in, just near Brixton tube station.

It's as bad as the depiction of the UK from Frasier, and the language they had Daphne using.

Actually there are a fair number of buildings in Brixton (mainly round the railway lines) that would make good loft places.

And bizarrely the actress who played Daphne was English!!

 

[Ol Nick]

British stuff is often as bad - did anyone see that god-awful NY-LON series. Every flippin' episode seemed to involve them having to cross Waterloo Bridge at night in a taxi.

Ah well that's what I'd do if I could afford it.

 

[flangelina]

And bizarrely the actress who played Daphne was English!!

Yes, that's Jane Leeves, formerly one of Hill's (i.e. Benny) Angels. British as they come, though her Mancunian accent might not be the most authentic! Interestingly, John Mahoney who plays Frasier's dad, was born and raised in Manchester.

Whilst we're on about London inaccuracies in film and TV, sumfink wot I found off of the rottentomatoes website on the film Patriot Games.

"When the bookshop keeper runs from his store in Piccadilly he enters Aldwich tube station this is impossible as said tube station is a 20 minute bus ride away. Also when he gets on the train the conductor announces that the train will stop at Leicester Square, Piccadilly circus (were he just left from), and Oxford Circus This is impossible, as no train on the London underground makes stops at all those stations. He would have to change trains at Piccadilly circus."

D'oh!

 

[Guineveretoo]

And bizarrely the actress who played Daphne was English!!

I know the actress who played Daphne was English, as is the actress who played Charlie's mother. My point was about the language they were made to use rather than their accents.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

British stuff is often as bad - did anyone see that god-awful NY-LON series. Every flippin' episode seemed to involve them having to cross Waterloo Bridge at night in a taxi.

Absolute crap. Think I only watched one episode and I only watched it because they filmed in the Windmill pub in Brixton