@@nolanbrey9854 The entire video has a watermark image that mentions it is sponsored and a 30 second blurb at the 3:40 mark. What are you on about? Did you actually watch?
This is what bugs me about the film industry in BC. Yeah obviously there's a bunch of reasons why productions will try to be set in the US to appeal to an American audience, but why are we so proud of being this cheap chameleon location for low quality films that never gets to play itself on screen? And more importantly, why aren't we trying harder to change it? Instead we have to do what the sponsor segment of this video did and awkwardly try to point out that all those movies are made here. BC is a beautiful place and could easily have its own visual identity on screen, but instead we constantly look for ways to disguise it to appeal only to cost. Also, surely an American audience can relate to a story set in Canada, right?
The commonly heard utterance from Vancouver locals any time they see a film crew (or so I've heard): "So, what part of the 'States are we impersonating this week?" Oh, and Smallville is supposed to be in KANSAS.
If you listen to the Smallville podcast Michael Rosenbaum always complains about how he hated shooting in Vancouver because of the weather and jokes about Kansas having mountains. Lol
Proud to live in Vancouver :) Just an fyi though Langley does not have a population of 30k, it’s more like over 100k… they got it mixed up with Langley city (30k), which is a weird municipality within Langley township (100k). The cool older type buildings in Langley are located in Fort Langley (which is Langley township), and it’s a really cool touristy town. I know it’s expensive but I love living here and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I watched 50/50 recently, and it was laughable how little they tried to conceal the fact that it was shot here. The first scene is just a montage of Joseph Gordon-Levitt jogging past all of Vancouver's most famous landmarks.
Sensed this almost immediately watching Shogun (locals will understand that you just kinda 'know' those are local trees/coast), and sure enough it's filmed in Vancouver and nearby areas.
When my insomnia was at its worst and I watched a ton of stuff cause no sleep, I could almost always tell exclusively by the actors with small roles. My accuracy was frankly disturbing.
Vancouverite here! One of my favourite games to play while watching movies and TV filmed in town is that I try to guess where in the city or Lower Mainland (the surrounding area) they're filming before the scene ends. The way I watched Supernatural while randomly screaming words like "UBC!" or "LANGLEY!" at the TV screen like I was watching Jeopardy and not a drama... 🤣
To clarify: Langley has over 100k people, the very small 10 square km (under 4 sq miles) area of Langley City has 30k. Similarly, the city of Vancouver has about 700k people, yes, but the surrounding Lower Mainland (the mountains, temperate rainforest, rural areas and coastal locations where they also film) total about 3 million people. Yes a lot less than NYC but I don’t think it’s accurate to say filming here is easier because there are fewer people here; it’s cheaper than NYC to film in while offering lots of diverse locations, I think those points are the main reasons.
Yeah, saying Vancouver has only 700 000 people is pretty disingenuous. Most people that haven't been would count North and West Van as part of the city.
@j.zuberi you came to this video later than my comment, in the time in-between they re-edited the video. The original video said Kentucky and even showed Kentucky on the map, not Kansas. That's why my comment got so many likes.
@@bigfootwalker5399 Ahhh ok, that makes more sense, not sure how they re-edited it with the original comments still here but go figure i guess. That is wild they got that initially wrong multiple times.
This video used the City of Langley’s population to represent “Langley”. Fort Langley, which is a focus of this video is in Langley Township: a different municipality with a considerably larger population.
That explains why the movie 50/50 Joseph Gordon-Levitt is clearly running in Stanly park Vancouver. While studying in UBC there was a production crew around about every other week
2:45, as a Vancouver resident I will agree that we have a lot of warm sunny days for part of the year, but "throughout the year"? Definitely not. Please visit again in November. No amount of disclaimers about editorial control will convince me our tourism board didn't pay for that line.
I've driven through Fort Langley so many times when they are filming a Christmas movie in July. Same thing with the Old Clayburn store in my hometown of Abbotsford BC. I'm a big Christmas guy, so it always makes me feel happy to see it, even if I have to wait in traffic for the scene to end.
I remember once I was leaving work in Toronto, I walked by two different sets of movie production. One was Driven starring Stallone and the second one was Exit Wounds starring DMX. This was downtown Toronto, the financial district too.
There are two Langleys in the Vancouver area. He quotes the City of Langley’s population of 30k but the Township of Langley which includes Fort Langley and rural Langley has a population of around 100k, and that’s where most of the movies are shot. Also did not expect to hear Vancouver described as a sunny place, haha
You missed the fact that the lower CAD means a more favourable exchange rate which lowers costs across the board for US companies. This is also true for Toronto
there is this light hearted joke about the Stargate tv show that it's really great as long as you don't mind every alien planet looks like the forests outside Vancouver.
We loved to shoot this episode ❤ Immense gratitude goes to @Vox for not only amplifying the voices of the resilient people of Ambohiby but also providing them with the means to tell their extraordinary story. It's an honor to witness their greatness and courage, deserving the spotlight and attention they've received. Moreover, the opportunity granted to name Anosibe properly stands as a testament to the significance of their culture and heritage. Through this act, their narrative gains even more depth, resonating powerfully with the world and ensuring their legacy endures with its rightful name. From Madagascar with love ❤
My immersion always breaks in movies when in some city scene, I see a street sign that just blatantly still says "Burrard St" or some other street downtown
Also, you can clearly see the sponsor influence in your ad/video. You were obviously told not to mention Ontario (which gives even better tax incentives for filming), which is Canada's hub of filming. I can see how this video idea came about: Vancouver advertiser offers to throw money at you. Vox thinks about how they can make an ad for the city fit within their portfolio. Vancouver advertiser flies you in to some local spots. Presto! Video ad. The idea for the video is a good one, but its so obviously an afterthought as its not thorough.
Genuinely curious how well known this is to most people. I've known for a long time a lot of American media is filmed in Vancouver and can tell once I see certain actors. If a movie or show is filmed in Canada, but not Vancouver, it's Toronto.
I knew this facts since I was binging 90' TV shows when I was growing up, like X-Files. I also had a habit to watch tv/movies until the end credit rolling, watching behind-the-scenes and interviews. So, I always knew that costing is what drove Hollywood production to Canada. Plus, I think Canadian cities & natural landscape really looks much better on-screen than American ones. Sorry for my moderate English, though.
As a new yorker, it's painfully obvious wheneneve a location is supposed to be taking place here but shot somewhere else. A good example is the stark contrast between the Raimi Spider-Man movies and the MCU ones, the latter of which mostly used Atlanta for its NYC locations. In the Raimi movies NYC is its own character, but when you're replacing it you're only getting very generic locations with some comp work to fill in the illusion.
Although as a Vancouver citizen I am proud to see our city featured in many Hollywood tv shows & movies, I do wish that certain shows would not always shoot in the same places over and over again it can get tedious at times. Such as in the DC TV universe. For example ARROW (where Vancouver was Star City): on top of the art gallery AGAIN! on the helipad east of Canada Place AGAIN! or the Flash (Where Vancouver is Central City): at the Central Library (AGAIN!) but from different angles. With Vancouver also standing in for Metropolis in Supergirl as well as for Legends of Tomorrow, I wonder just how many cities can Vancouver stand in for in just one universe alone!!! =P
The funniest example of this for me is in season 3 of the Boys, when they have downtown Toronto playing midtown Manhattan and there's a scene of Soldier Boy where it's so obvious that I recognized the intersection and I'm not even from Toronto. (It was Yonge and Richmond, btw)
The biggest giveaway of any Toronto shoot playing NYC? The TTC streetcar tracks and powerlines. Only a few cities in the entire USA have streetcar infrastructure of any size much less a city like Toronto which kept its historic system intact for over a century!
@@multitudeofidols it’s like one of the three things we got from Kansas. KU basketball, Superman’s earth home, and Samuel Ramey operatic bass legend. That’s it. Let us just have that.
Yeah as an Albertan I can confirm it's WAAAAAAAY sunnier in Southern Alberta and Calgary compared to Vancouver... And unless your movie or film shoot calls for ocean scenes it's also cheaper, except the film subsidies aren't nearly as good and that's what drives much of where things are filmed...
Vancouver is a Mediterranean climate it experiencing droughts around 6 months out of the year. It’s just as true to say it never rains on Vancouver as 1/2 of the year it doesn’t
PNW is good for shooting film because diffused lighting from the cloud cover is easier to deal with than actual sunny weather. Cool for Vancouver BC though good for them
Yup. The turnaround times on these productions is much quicker which means shooting quicker, cheaper with simpler set ups and less takes. You aren't going to see hyper-edited modern films in many a case, you see lots of static shots and simple editing. I think traditional big films shoot for 3-6 months. Hallmark/Netflix Xmas films? 30-45 days I believe. Hence why Vancouver and increasingly Ottawa have become B/cable TV movie hubs as of late...
Interesting. I always thought Toronto was the go-to filming location for mimicking NYC or other American metropolitan cities. I know Montreal also attracts a lot of production studios.
It’s just cheaper to film anywhere in Canada than it is in the U.S., paying an entire crew to film in New York City is extremely expensive, there’s a reason they film Spiderman in Atlanta and not in NYC lol.
So weird Toronto isn’t mentioned as NYC-look-alike 🤨 I think the sponsorship has something to do with it. I think this is a “harmless example” of how sponsors can bend the editor’s rules of a respected and reputable media 🤔
I was an extra for several days on a limited series for Apple TV this past summer in Montreal. The story is set in Alaska... in winter. Everyone was bundled up in sweaters, parkas, scarves, tuques, gloves and winter boots in sweltering heat. Not the most fun you can have but I will say that was one of the best sets I've worked on. The extras were all well treated and (this not a given...) well fed, with good quality food, lots of variety over the days and plenty of snacks always available. I was also an extra for a Hallmark Christmas movie this past fall. Fortunately, we were shooting indoors so I didn't have to bundle up too much. That one, too, was shot in Montreal.
Vancouver truly have all sorts of locations, Including dystopian brutalist prison that is SFU Burnaby. Rundown gangster infested neighborhoods that is East Hastings, stereotypical and actually convincing Chinatown of Richmond, anything above North Vancouver and Whistler becomes Alaska and Yukon. The only thing missing is probably tropical looking places like beaches and deserts.
As a resident of Vancouver, the trick generally doesn't work when I recognize local landmarks :) The most hilarious had to be in Rumble in the Bronx when you can see the North Shore mountains in the bridge scene. There are no mountains that you can see from NYC.
I live just outside of Vancouver and they filmed The Flash at my high school… and blocked off like a quarter of our school to do so. Don’t even know why they chose our school as it’s just a random suburb.
Lots of different factors go into scouting locations depending on the size of crew and space needed. Someone's job is to look up all the high schools in and around the greater Vancouver area and a random suburb is going to be more accessible for production than in inner city school.
As a film instructor who teaches in Vancouver, this video is great! As a sustainability representative, it's frustrating to see the host use a disposable coffee cup (that's clearly empty in a couple of shots) instead of a reusable mug. And yes, Smallville is set in Kansas, not Kentucky. Even Canadians know that.
At some point after a night of partying in HS, I caught an early morning re-run of the show "Sliders". I ended up binge watching almost all of that 90s mess and what I realized is that San Francisco looks way better filmed in Vancouver than entirely on an LA soundstage.
5:08 If you're only considering the City of Vancouver, then you should compare with the Boroughts of New York: Manhattan: 1.6m Brooklyn: 2.6m Queens: 2.2m Vancouver 0.7m Or compare metropolitan areas: NYC: ~8m Metro Vancouver: ~3m
2:42 must have given us Vancouverites a bit of a chuckle. Warm, sunny days throughout the year? Clearly you haven't visited much between November and March when it's almost endless cloudy/rainy days and the sun doesn't rise until 8am and sets at 4pm. You might see the sun a couple of times a month, if you're lucky.
I heard that New Mexico offered the producers of Breaking Bad such a good deal and tax incentives, they literally couldn't say no. They made Albequerque an actual character in that show.
I have made it a game to spot Vancouver locations. I first saw some stairs in Continuum that I later saw in multiple Arrow-verse episodes. Speaking of; I suddenly saw the island/bay where Oliver Queen is trapped in this years Shogun. Of course nothing has been filmed in Japan. I also have to mention the forest and quarries in Stargate (all versions). BTW I am from Norway and have never been over the pond, but would love to go to Vancouver some day.
No mention that the first 5 seasons of X-Files was filmed in Metro Vancouver?? In the show, Vancouver and it's surrounding cities played almost every state in the U.S. as well as some other countries like Costa Rica.
My brother was watching the Netflix movie Don't Move which was set in California's Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park.... except, it wasn't! The filming location was anywhere forest, Bulgaria!
In a world where more and more films are being filmed in soundstages and warehouses, it makes filming in the UK a lot more desirable as the weather doesn’t matter 😂
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Was not expecting "sponsored by the city of Vancouver" lol
Feel like they should be more clearly labeling this video an ad in the feed.
So they get a tax credit?
@@nolanbrey9854 isn't it labeled sponsored by youtube?
@@nolanbrey9854 The entire video has a watermark image that mentions it is sponsored and a 30 second blurb at the 3:40 mark. What are you on about? Did you actually watch?
@@nolanbrey9854 it says "presented by visit vancouver" in the corner the ENTIRE video. Can't get much clearer than that.
"Vancouver Never Plays Itself"
Tony Zhou 🙏🏻
In American media. Vancouver plays itself in Canadian shows like _Da Vinci's Inquest_ and _Intelligence._
Came here for this comment.
Then, and only then, does Detroit portray a location 😂
This is what bugs me about the film industry in BC. Yeah obviously there's a bunch of reasons why productions will try to be set in the US to appeal to an American audience, but why are we so proud of being this cheap chameleon location for low quality films that never gets to play itself on screen? And more importantly, why aren't we trying harder to change it? Instead we have to do what the sponsor segment of this video did and awkwardly try to point out that all those movies are made here. BC is a beautiful place and could easily have its own visual identity on screen, but instead we constantly look for ways to disguise it to appeal only to cost. Also, surely an American audience can relate to a story set in Canada, right?
I did not expect this to be an ad for Vancouver
Same, it’s sad
2:48 Vancouver, sunny? Destination Vancouver must have paid big to fit that line in 😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Vancouver's summers are almost entirely dry without rain.
I heard they reimbursed 28% to Vox just for filming here
@@adanactnomew7085 Sunny for 2 months, rainy for 10
It's actually sunnier here in in June than in LA, no "June Gloom". July August is full on beach weather in Vancouver.
The commonly heard utterance from Vancouver locals any time they see a film crew (or so I've heard): "So, what part of the 'States are we impersonating this week?"
Oh, and Smallville is supposed to be in KANSAS.
Oof 😂😂 nobody caught that I guess
Thanks for catching this! We're working on fixing it now.
@@Vox video works but fix the captions too!
If you listen to the Smallville podcast Michael Rosenbaum always complains about how he hated shooting in Vancouver because of the weather and jokes about Kansas having mountains. Lol
ahaha recently Vancouver was playing NEW JERSEY on Yellowjackets. like... what?!
This was a long answer for “it’s cheaper.” 😂😂 it costs extra money just to breathe in NY these days.
Why do people live there and stay there then? Must be worth it to lots of ppl
Proud to live in Vancouver :)
Just an fyi though Langley does not have a population of 30k, it’s more like over 100k… they got it mixed up with Langley city (30k), which is a weird municipality within Langley township (100k). The cool older type buildings in Langley are located in Fort Langley (which is Langley township), and it’s a really cool touristy town. I know it’s expensive but I love living here and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Every Vancouverite can easily guess a movie’s filming location even before the credits roll. It’s like a sixth sense.
I watched 50/50 recently, and it was laughable how little they tried to conceal the fact that it was shot here. The first scene is just a montage of Joseph Gordon-Levitt jogging past all of Vancouver's most famous landmarks.
Sensed this almost immediately watching Shogun (locals will understand that you just kinda 'know' those are local trees/coast), and sure enough it's filmed in Vancouver and nearby areas.
@@ratguy101Ha, my first thought too because they left the street signs in.
When my insomnia was at its worst and I watched a ton of stuff cause no sleep, I could almost always tell exclusively by the actors with small roles. My accuracy was frankly disturbing.
Fun game to play in any movie that happens in NYC: is this Vancouver or Toronto?
TlDr: Money.
Didn't need tldr for that. It was already given
And convenience
"And LOTS of it" quote OSP
Suddenly, I remember Every Frame a Painting's Vancouver never plays itself video. So true!
Vancouverite here! One of my favourite games to play while watching movies and TV filmed in town is that I try to guess where in the city or Lower Mainland (the surrounding area) they're filming before the scene ends. The way I watched Supernatural while randomly screaming words like "UBC!" or "LANGLEY!" at the TV screen like I was watching Jeopardy and not a drama... 🤣
that last one was clearly tsawassen
I only got to do this with schitts creek filmed around the rural GTA
To clarify: Langley has over 100k people, the very small 10 square km (under 4 sq miles) area of Langley City has 30k. Similarly, the city of Vancouver has about 700k people, yes, but the surrounding Lower Mainland (the mountains, temperate rainforest, rural areas and coastal locations where they also film) total about 3 million people. Yes a lot less than NYC but I don’t think it’s accurate to say filming here is easier because there are fewer people here; it’s cheaper than NYC to film in while offering lots of diverse locations, I think those points are the main reasons.
Yeah, saying Vancouver has only 700 000 people is pretty disingenuous. Most people that haven't been would count North and West Van as part of the city.
Yeah I thought that was a really odd comparison to make.
The population density is much lower than New York. And the fact it is less populated is one of the main reason it is cheaper, so no.
As someone from the area, our film industry is a local point of pride. I love pointing out local locations in movies and TV to others!
0:54 Superman/Clark Kent didn't grow up in rural Kentucky, he grew up in rural Kansas.
wrong, he grew up in miami beach
wrong he grew up in mexico
he said Rural Kansas...LOL!. Did u miss that.
@j.zuberi you came to this video later than my comment, in the time in-between they re-edited the video.
The original video said Kentucky and even showed Kentucky on the map, not Kansas.
That's why my comment got so many likes.
@@bigfootwalker5399 Ahhh ok, that makes more sense, not sure how they re-edited it with the original comments still here but go figure i guess. That is wild they got that initially wrong multiple times.
Finally! We got the recognition we deserved! Thank you Vox
This video used the City of Langley’s population to represent “Langley”. Fort Langley, which is a focus of this video is in Langley Township: a different municipality with a considerably larger population.
Did he really get kentucky and Kansas mixed up 3 times?
Superman was in Kansas not Kentucky
That explains why the movie 50/50 Joseph Gordon-Levitt is clearly running in Stanly park Vancouver.
While studying in UBC there was a production crew around about every other week
The REAL question is: why take an empty coffee cup to the forest? :)
2:45, as a Vancouver resident I will agree that we have a lot of warm sunny days for part of the year, but "throughout the year"? Definitely not. Please visit again in November. No amount of disclaimers about editorial control will convince me our tourism board didn't pay for that line.
I've driven through Fort Langley so many times when they are filming a Christmas movie in July. Same thing with the Old Clayburn store in my hometown of Abbotsford BC. I'm a big Christmas guy, so it always makes me feel happy to see it, even if I have to wait in traffic for the scene to end.
They do this in Richmond's Steveston village, where I grew up too, for the historic small town main street vibes.
they were filming something there when i drove through yesterday 😂
I love that the sponsor was actually related to the locations in the video!
I remember once I was leaving work in Toronto, I walked by two different sets of movie production. One was Driven starring Stallone and the second one was Exit Wounds starring DMX. This was downtown Toronto, the financial district too.
There are two Langleys in the Vancouver area. He quotes the City of Langley’s population of 30k but the Township of Langley which includes Fort Langley and rural Langley has a population of around 100k, and that’s where most of the movies are shot. Also did not expect to hear Vancouver described as a sunny place, haha
Wow, Vox has really jumped the shark with the advertising.
Yep
Tapped out when I heard Vancouver is a go to city for filming because it’s “warm and sunny most of the year”. I can’t watch a 9 minute ad.
You missed the fact that the lower CAD means a more favourable exchange rate which lowers costs across the board for US companies. This is also true for Toronto
there is this light hearted joke about the Stargate tv show that it's really great as long as you don't mind every alien planet looks like the forests outside Vancouver.
We loved to shoot this episode ❤ Immense gratitude goes to @Vox for not only amplifying the voices of the resilient people of Ambohiby but also providing them with the means to tell their extraordinary story. It's an honor to witness their greatness and courage, deserving the spotlight and attention they've received. Moreover, the opportunity granted to name Anosibe properly stands as a testament to the significance of their culture and heritage. Through this act, their narrative gains even more depth, resonating powerfully with the world and ensuring their legacy endures with its rightful name. From Madagascar with love ❤
My immersion always breaks in movies when in some city scene, I see a street sign that just blatantly still says "Burrard St" or some other street downtown
8 1/2 minute Vancouver ad
Also, you can clearly see the sponsor influence in your ad/video. You were obviously told not to mention Ontario (which gives even better tax incentives for filming), which is Canada's hub of filming.
I can see how this video idea came about: Vancouver advertiser offers to throw money at you. Vox thinks about how they can make an ad for the city fit within their portfolio. Vancouver advertiser flies you in to some local spots. Presto! Video ad.
The idea for the video is a good one, but its so obviously an afterthought as its not thorough.
you must be fun at parties. I mean, based on your username, kinda checks out😂
@ I’m the best at parties! You must live in Vancouver. Am I right?
@@vegan939 Actually BC has a much larger production spend than Ontario.
Genuinely curious how well known this is to most people. I've known for a long time a lot of American media is filmed in Vancouver and can tell once I see certain actors. If a movie or show is filmed in Canada, but not Vancouver, it's Toronto.
...and to a lesser extent Montreal. I've worked on several American-produced movies and TV shows here.
I knew this facts since I was binging 90' TV shows when I was growing up, like X-Files. I also had a habit to watch tv/movies until the end credit rolling, watching behind-the-scenes and interviews. So, I always knew that costing is what drove Hollywood production to Canada. Plus, I think Canadian cities & natural landscape really looks much better on-screen than American ones. Sorry for my moderate English, though.
As a new yorker, it's painfully obvious wheneneve a location is supposed to be taking place here but shot somewhere else. A good example is the stark contrast between the Raimi Spider-Man movies and the MCU ones, the latter of which mostly used Atlanta for its NYC locations. In the Raimi movies NYC is its own character, but when you're replacing it you're only getting very generic locations with some comp work to fill in the illusion.
Hey at least they try to make it seem realistic :p in one of those movies the Netherlands looked like a medieval fever dream lol
Funnily enough, Marc Webb's (no pun intended) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 actually shot the entire NY State.
On the flip side, it's painfully obvious to us Vancouverites when we recognize local locations pretending to be elsewhere.
Always knew this movie magic trick had to be cost-saving, but I appreciated this breakdown of details. Thanks!
Although as a Vancouver citizen I am proud to see our city featured in many Hollywood tv shows & movies, I do wish that certain shows would not always shoot in the same places over and over again it can get tedious at times. Such as in the DC TV universe. For example ARROW (where Vancouver was Star City): on top of the art gallery AGAIN! on the helipad east of Canada Place AGAIN! or the Flash (Where Vancouver is Central City): at the Central Library (AGAIN!) but from different angles. With Vancouver also standing in for Metropolis in Supergirl as well as for Legends of Tomorrow, I wonder just how many cities can Vancouver stand in for in just one universe alone!!! =P
why are you holding that empty coffee cup? Looks weird
is the hallmark magic
The funniest example of this for me is in season 3 of the Boys, when they have downtown Toronto playing midtown Manhattan and there's a scene of Soldier Boy where it's so obvious that I recognized the intersection and I'm not even from Toronto. (It was Yonge and Richmond, btw)
The biggest giveaway of any Toronto shoot playing NYC? The TTC streetcar tracks and powerlines. Only a few cities in the entire USA have streetcar infrastructure of any size much less a city like Toronto which kept its historic system intact for over a century!
Jesus….KANSAS not Kentucky. Clark Kent is from Kansas. How do you mess that up?? They’re not even in the same geographic region.
Glad someone said something. You don't even need to have ever watched the show to know that. It's basic comic lore.
They probably had to rush the video out for the sponsorship deadline. Didn't have time for Vox's normal stringent fact check and review.
@@multitudeofidols it’s like one of the three things we got from Kansas. KU basketball, Superman’s earth home, and Samuel Ramey operatic bass legend. That’s it. Let us just have that.
They fixed it.
Yeah the coffee cup prop is weird.
yeah why is he holding it?
I think it's a nice nod to the content of the video. Artifice
@@walterzamalis4846 mic?
As someone from PNB, i always know when something is filmed in BC by the trees, theres always something indigenous that pops up.
You just know they weren't allowed to say or mention Toronto in this video lol
And also pretend that Toronto isn't just as popular a location for US film & TV productions as Vancouver. hah
Exactly. Toronto is the real replacement for NYC, everybody knows lol
pretty much all of those silly Hallmark/Netflix Christmas films are filmed in Ontario towns now as well
Vancouver does continue to have a bigger TV and film investment than Toronto.
It rains 8/12 months in Vancouver. 🤦🏻♂️
But, Vancouver is metric so there are 28 metric months.
Yeah as an Albertan I can confirm it's WAAAAAAAY sunnier in Southern Alberta and Calgary compared to Vancouver... And unless your movie or film shoot calls for ocean scenes it's also cheaper, except the film subsidies aren't nearly as good and that's what drives much of where things are filmed...
Vancouver is a Mediterranean climate it experiencing droughts around 6 months out of the year. It’s just as true to say it never rains on Vancouver as 1/2 of the year it doesn’t
More like 5 but sure, be dramatic.
@@stickynorthtrue, but it’s also full of Albertans
The fact that you were in Fort Langley blows my mind!!
That’s right❤ welcome to Vancouver - Hollywood North🎉 0:25
I found it funny that the beginning of any but you was set in America but filmed in Sydney. In my mind it is just Sydney not a city in America.
PNW is good for shooting film because diffused lighting from the cloud cover is easier to deal with than actual sunny weather. Cool for Vancouver BC though good for them
Because it's less expensive, has less paper work and is faster, probably
Yup. The turnaround times on these productions is much quicker which means shooting quicker, cheaper with simpler set ups and less takes. You aren't going to see hyper-edited modern films in many a case, you see lots of static shots and simple editing. I think traditional big films shoot for 3-6 months. Hallmark/Netflix Xmas films? 30-45 days I believe. Hence why Vancouver and increasingly Ottawa have become B/cable TV movie hubs as of late...
Interesting. I always thought Toronto was the go-to filming location for mimicking NYC or other American metropolitan cities. I know Montreal also attracts a lot of production studios.
Vancouver never plays itself
The Sci-Fi series Continuum was set in Vancouver.
Vancouver never plays itself! One day...
"Smallville" was set in Kansas, not Kentucky.
They fixed it.
It’s just cheaper to film anywhere in Canada than it is in the U.S., paying an entire crew to film in New York City is extremely expensive, there’s a reason they film Spiderman in Atlanta and not in NYC lol.
The coolest New York scene I’ve seen is Season 4 of Mr Robot, where Rami Malek runs across all of New York in one episode
So weird Toronto isn’t mentioned as NYC-look-alike 🤨 I think the sponsorship has something to do with it. I think this is a “harmless example” of how sponsors can bend the editor’s rules of a respected and reputable media 🤔
They also film a loooot of US movies in Bulgaria.
Choosing to shoot in Vancouver to avoid the rain is like...
Just lived in Vancouver for a year and it was the best time of my life
I was an extra for several days on a limited series for Apple TV this past summer in Montreal. The story is set in Alaska... in winter. Everyone was bundled up in sweaters, parkas, scarves, tuques, gloves and winter boots in sweltering heat. Not the most fun you can have but I will say that was one of the best sets I've worked on. The extras were all well treated and (this not a given...) well fed, with good quality food, lots of variety over the days and plenty of snacks always available. I was also an extra for a Hallmark Christmas movie this past fall. Fortunately, we were shooting indoors so I didn't have to bundle up too much. That one, too, was shot in Montreal.
Vancouver truly have all sorts of locations, Including dystopian brutalist prison that is SFU Burnaby. Rundown gangster infested neighborhoods that is East Hastings, stereotypical and actually convincing Chinatown of Richmond, anything above North Vancouver and Whistler becomes Alaska and Yukon. The only thing missing is probably tropical looking places like beaches and deserts.
@antaris905, Okanagan for semi-desert at least.
As a resident of Vancouver, the trick generally doesn't work when I recognize local landmarks :) The most hilarious had to be in Rumble in the Bronx when you can see the North Shore mountains in the bridge scene. There are no mountains that you can see from NYC.
Love that this was made to seem like a newsy piece, then its a spinsored piece by Vancouver. 😂
For us Europeans it all looks the same anyway !❤
*obligatory Gas Town steam clock shot*
Toronto plays New York City waaayy more in movies & TV shows than Vancouver does.
1:10 "why vancouver tho?"
me: m o n e e e y ? 😃
I live just outside of Vancouver and they filmed The Flash at my high school… and blocked off like a quarter of our school to do so. Don’t even know why they chose our school as it’s just a random suburb.
Lots of different factors go into scouting locations depending on the size of crew and space needed. Someone's job is to look up all the high schools in and around the greater Vancouver area and a random suburb is going to be more accessible for production than in inner city school.
As a film instructor who teaches in Vancouver, this video is great! As a sustainability representative, it's frustrating to see the host use a disposable coffee cup (that's clearly empty in a couple of shots) instead of a reusable mug. And yes, Smallville is set in Kansas, not Kentucky. Even Canadians know that.
Hi Arun!
At some point after a night of partying in HS, I caught an early morning re-run of the show "Sliders". I ended up binge watching almost all of that 90s mess and what I realized is that San Francisco looks way better filmed in Vancouver than entirely on an LA soundstage.
"Why doesn't Vancouver every play itself" this videos been done!
Vox is like the TEMU of being subtle when it comes to embedded ads.
5:08 If you're only considering the City of Vancouver, then you should compare with the Boroughts of New York:
Manhattan: 1.6m
Brooklyn: 2.6m
Queens: 2.2m
Vancouver 0.7m
Or compare metropolitan areas:
NYC: ~8m
Metro Vancouver: ~3m
8 million is the population of the combined 5 boroughs that make up NYC proper, not the metro area. The NYC metro area has over 20 million!
as a vancouver watcher, i loved this
2:42 must have given us Vancouverites a bit of a chuckle. Warm, sunny days throughout the year? Clearly you haven't visited much between November and March when it's almost endless cloudy/rainy days and the sun doesn't rise until 8am and sets at 4pm. You might see the sun a couple of times a month, if you're lucky.
Love videos like this! Cool fun facts 🔥
My city, Liverpool, England doubled as Gotham city!
Gee, I hope this is not another 15 min commercial disguised as content again!
It was sadly
@@Random9_ But it's Canada so who cares? And I say that as a Canadian... Blandest ad ever!
Walking around downtown cover in the past few months I see a few Christmas movies filming
I heard that New Mexico offered the producers of Breaking Bad such a good deal and tax incentives, they literally couldn't say no. They made Albequerque an actual character in that show.
I have made it a game to spot Vancouver locations. I first saw some stairs in Continuum that I later saw in multiple Arrow-verse episodes. Speaking of; I suddenly saw the island/bay where Oliver Queen is trapped in this years Shogun. Of course nothing has been filmed in Japan. I also have to mention the forest and quarries in Stargate (all versions). BTW I am from Norway and have never been over the pond, but would love to go to Vancouver some day.
Vancouver never play itself
5:55 Tax incentives should be number one.
Vox could play itself in an examination of bean-counter influences.
An ad by Vancouver. No wonder there was no mention of Toronto
It's always frustrating to see the Field Museum in Chicago not called that in Night at the museum 😂😂 Like give Kudos to my city 🌆
4:41 If I'm not mistaken, that's Storybrooke City Hall behind you. Loved Once Upon a Time
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ebook titled The Elite Society's Money Manifestation might be the answer you’re looking for
"Canadian tax breaks, y'all."
Ooo loved this episode. I've always wondered about this. I'm from CT and so so many movies are filmed there but don't take place there
I was under the impression that it rains a lot in Vancouver/Seattle!
As a person living in Toronto, I am constantly doing that Leonardo Dicaprio meme pointing at the TV.
It’s not uncommon, but this is very interesting. I’m convinced to visit Vancouver to see their landscapes
You can see the mountains of New Jersey in the background of Rumble in the Bronx!
No mention that the first 5 seasons of X-Files was filmed in Metro Vancouver?? In the show, Vancouver and it's surrounding cities played almost every state in the U.S. as well as some other countries like Costa Rica.
Vancouverite here. I knew what this would be from the thumbnail alone! Muahahahahahaha EVERYTHING YOU LOVE IS MY CITY!!!
My brother was watching the Netflix movie Don't Move which was set in California's Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park.... except, it wasn't! The filming location was anywhere forest, Bulgaria!
In a world where more and more films are being filmed in soundstages and warehouses, it makes filming in the UK a lot more desirable as the weather doesn’t matter 😂
Always funny seeing movies take place in my city but none of the building or streets exist in reality
Zero mention of Toronto, let alone Ontario
Well this was an ad paid for by Vancouver so…
A 70 cent dollar doesnt hurt either
Ding ding ding! Throw in the tax break and local hires it's a sure bet
The Township of Langley, where Fort Langley is located, has over 130,000 people. The 30,000 is from the City of Langley