Following the recent debut of a Bojangles commercial featuring happy picnickers in a lush, green Fourth Ward Park (obviously filmed many months ago), white moving trucks and grungy hacks wearing cargoes and t-shirts and carrying things like sound booms filled Pine Street near the park last week.One night I pulled up around 11 to find the entire park lit up with fluorescent lights. Later, what sounded like fireworks shot off several times.
The dog-walker rumor mill holds that all the commotion was the filming of a movie called "Insignificant Other," which I can find no evidence of on the Internet. IMDB lists it as a "Hitchcockian version of Sex and the City" that was released to little fanfare in 2002.
An update to last week's conspiracy theory: a man with a little black dog informed me that the police watch tower is in fact a prop for the movie, which also features several police officers. If that's true, either the cop I talked to was an impostor, or he was badly confused.
But was the police helicopter also a prop? And though the hacks have seemingly disappeared, the tower still looks in through my window.
Another update: While the frightening police tower may in fact be there for the movie shoot, it is, in fact, real. The $60,000 (by one confused officer's estimate) have indeed been wasted. Unless Charlotte's anticipating any unrest in the near future.
3 comments:
The Charlotte you live in seems like a totally foreign land to me. And I grew up here. There ain't no movies being filmed or conspiracies unfolding out here in Matthews. I'll have to live vicariously through you.
And I hope you don't think those little yellow planes are just spraying for canker worms...
Yikes..
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