In Cameron Diaz’s shoes
Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:18 (UTC -5)A little while ago I was wandering around the house while the TV (which is always on) was turned to some fashion channel. They were playing a commercial for a chick flick with Cameron Diaz, when suddenly a familiar sight caught my eye: the Deerfield Beach train station.
(Note to self: I got this screen capture in HyperSnap-DX 4 by opening the Quicktime movie file in a separate window and doing a multi-region capture.)
I did some IMDb-ing around for the movie, In Her Shoes, and I found that it was indeed filmed in Deerfield, including at the city pier (where, incidentally, President Gerald Ford visited in 1976). I wonder why I didn’t hear about the movie being filmed. After all, our seaside suburb isn’t exactly a hot spot for moviemakers.
The train station is nearby; I used to pass it going to work. There isn’t much there, really. After all, it’s a train station. The national Amtrak and the local Tri-Rail stop there. I was at the station when I took the Tri-Rail when I was younger, and that’s the only time I’ve been there.
Incidentally, Deerfield Beach used to be known as simply Deerfield, so the train station said “Deerfield Florida.” When the city became Deerfeld Beach, the word “Beach” was crammed between Deerfield and Florida, where it remains to this day, as you can see in the above still from the movie trailer.
Yesterday I was supposed to meet with Mandi and Nicole about being in their band. My grandparents took me to the mall where we were supposed to meet at 1:00. I realized that we had stupidly not picked a place to meet. So we circled the mall three times and checked the food court twice, all to no avail. After 45 minutes of searching, we just left.
Try not to get us Floridians mad. Today a state law went into effect making it legal to use deadly force whenever you feel threatened. A series of ads are running in British newspapers warning potential tourists about the dangers of traveling to Florida. The ads are sponsored by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which has a site at shootfirstlaw.org. The campaign is headed by James Brady, who was wounded and disabled in Ronald Reagan’s 1981 assassination attempt. Will this law and the backlash against it have a significant effect on our tourism industry?
6 comments
#1 by kevin: Sat Oct 01, 2005 17:07 (UTC -5)
that’s so cool! i didn’t know we had a movie filmed here. i didn’t even know about that movie actually.
#2 by Todd: Sun Oct 02, 2005 13:59 (UTC -5)
The note to self confuses me…
But it’s cool when you recognize your hometown on TV, or better on film!
#3 by Jordon: Sun Oct 02, 2005 14:30 (UTC -5)
Well, the note to self is a note to myself reminding myself how to get a screen capture of a Quicktime movie file. “Print Screen” doesn’t cut it, and the advanced capture program I use puts a stamp in the corner of the image, which in this case would make the name of the train station indecipherable. I figured out how to have the original image unobstructed by the program’s stamp, so that’s something worth remembering.
#4 by casey: Sun Oct 02, 2005 20:40 (UTC -5)
That is really interesting. I had no idea any filming was going on down here. There was more hype about from justin to kelly at the pier than this movie.
#5 by Michelle: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:24 (UTC -5)
It started last night at sundown (the 3rd) and ends on wednesday night around 8
#6 by Michelle: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:26 (UTC -5)
i commented on the wrong entry sorry, btw thats where i caught my bus to go to Washington 2 weeks ago, lol!