Movie Making in New York
Ben, our lovely friend who lives in Manhattan, cooked us a wonderful dinner over at his flat, which is on Park Avenue, not too far from Grand Central Station. He offered to put us up, but we’ve seen how small his flat is, and we thanked him for his very generous offers, and told him we had already made reservations at one of the top hotels in New York City. After dinner, we all planned to go to a movie, but we were treated to watching a movie being made as we were walking to the movie theater.
We’ve noticed that for the last two days, many of the streets had those orange cones out, which blocked many good parking spots. Ben, told us they were put there because a film was being shot in and around his area. Then that night, when we were having dinner at Ben’s place, we could see lights coming up to the night sky. We decided to take a look to see if that’s where the filming was taking place, and it was! There was a crowd of people standing and waiting to see the filming take place. It only took a few minutes for them to film the shot, but it took them a long time to set up. One of the preparations was to use a water truck to water down the streets, we heard one of the workers explain that many film directors prefer the streets to be wet, because that makes the place look fresh and clean.
There were many police and security around to make sure we all stayed back, we were even yelled at by one of them telling us to stay back because it’s dangerous, he was right, one of the crew trucks came barrelling down the wet road and slid into a sidewalk.
Later, we found out the movie being filmed was ‘A Couple of Cops’ with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, it’s a comedy apparently. We really enjoyed watching the entire aspect of filming, from the setting up all the way to the action. We even forgot that we were supposed to go see a movie! We all laughed saying that watching a movie being made was so much better than actually seeing a movie in the theaters.