Editing 1509: Scenery Cheat Sheet

In this comic [[Randall]] jokes that large areas of the United States (mainland) can be characterized by the locations of a single movie. Especially in the mid-west there are several very large areas that he describes with just one film. The map is the most detailed in the {{w|Northeastern United States|northeast}}, which is where Randall lives.

The map is divided into the 48 states of the mainland by thin gray lines. On top of these are drawn black lines that divide the map into 50 sections. (A 51st section is located in the Atlantic Ocean). Inside each section is at least one reference that is supposed to describe the entire area encompassed by the section. In most cases it is the title of a movie (or two to three titles), but it could also be more general specter of movies (all movies with a big budget, or those with whose title is a east coast city name) or it could even be a book/song that describes the relevant area.

The idea behind the map is that if you know this and the relevant movies, you can use it to determine where you are by comparing your knowledge of the movies with the sceneries you can see from where you stand. This is what the heading above the map clearly states.

 

Some entries (for instance, ''{{w|Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day}}'') reflect the locations where the stories are set, and others (like ''{{w|Dances with Wolves}}'') reflect where they were filmed. Others are even more detached, as it is the sceneries from the movie that resembles a given place, even though it is neither filmed there or takes place there. It could also be a cartoon, which is of course only set in an imaginary world that may resemble the real world.  

*In this table all the movies (and others) from the map are mentioned from top to bottom and (when possible) by going through the columns that seems to appear in the sections when going from left to right.  

*The setting for the movie vs. the actual filming locations will be given to be compared to the section of the map where the titles are written.  

*Explanations will be given in the Notes section.

*The {{w|State Postal Codes}} will be used when referring to the states covered by each section.

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| Cannon Beach, and Astoria, OR

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| Forks, WA

| Portland, OR

| rowspan="2" | {{w|Washington (state)|WA}}, {{w|Oregon|OR}} and most northern part of {{w|California|CA}} except for the part taken up by The Goonies.

| Same sections as 50 Shades of Grey

| Seattle, WA

| Vancouver, BC

| Same sections as Twilight which is clear from this fact:. The Fifty series was originally a {{w|fan fiction}} version of Twilight, but then developed into three full novels.

| San Fransisco Bay Area

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| {{W|Alcatraz Island}}

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| Fort Sedgwick, CO

| South Dakota and Wyoming

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| Planet Klendathu

| Hell's Half Acre, WY

| {{w|Napoleon Dynamite|Napoleon Dynamite}}

| Preston, Idaho

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| {{w|The Sandlot|The Sandlot}}

| Suburban Los Angeles  

| Salt Lake City, Utah

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| {{w|Wild Wild West|Wild Wild West}}

| The southwest area

| Tuscon, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pierce, Idaho

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| {{w|Top Gun|Top Gun}}

| NAS Miramar, San Diego, CA

| Nevada, NAS Miramar, San Diego, CA

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|Hollywood, CA

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| {{w|Brokeback Mountain|Brokeback Mountain}}

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| {{w|Oregon Trail (video_game)|Oregon Trail}}

|Video Game, not a film

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| Could also refer to the film "{{w|The Oregon Trail (1936 film)}}".

|Animated, not filmed

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| {{w|The Truman Show|The Truman Show}}<br>but with desert in the background

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| If it were filmed in Las Vegas ...

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| {{w|The Mask of Zorro|The Mask of Zorro}}

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| rowspan="3" |

| {{w|Field of Dreams|Field of Dreams}}

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|New Mexico

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| {{w|Office Space|Office Space}}

| rowspan="3" |

| {{w|Kill Bill|Kill Bill}}

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| {{w|A Christmas Story|A Christmas Story}}

| Indiana

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| {{w|Walk the Line|Walk the Line}}

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| {{w|Big Fish|Big Fish}}

| rowspan="2" |

| {{w|O Brother, Where Art Thou?|O Brother Where Art Thou}}

| {{w|Duck Dynasty|Duck Dynasty}}

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| {{w|The Princess and the Frog|Princess and the Frog}}

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| {{w|All Dogs Go to Heaven|All Dogs go to Heaven}}

| {{w|Beasts of the Southern Wild|Beasts of the Southern Wild}}

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| {{w|Dirty Dancing|Dirty Dancing}}

| {{w|Catskill Mountains|Catskill Mountains}}

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| {{w|October Sky|October Sky}}

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| rowspan="2" |

| {{w|Forrest Gump|Forrest Gump}}

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| {{w|The Truman Show|The Truman Show}}

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| {{w|Miami Vice|Miami Vice}}

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| {{w|Super Troopers|Super Troopers}}

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| Massachusetts  

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| rowspan="2" |

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| {{w|Pet Semetary|Pet Semetary}}

|Hancock, Maine

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|Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

|Smith Mountain Lake, VA

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| {{w|The Departed|The Departed}}

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| Atlantic Ocean

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:[In the frame is a map of the mainland USA with the 48 mainland states lined out in thin gray lines. All areas on the map have been enclosed in sections divided by curved black lines. These sections sizes goes from encompassing several states down to just a small section of a single state. The sections cover the entire USA without any holes. There is also one section in the Atlantic Ocean. All sections are labeled. If the section is large enough the text stands inside, if it is too small, the text is outside and an arrow will point to the relevant section

:[Small section on the west coast around the state border between WA and OR, which is surrounded on three sides by the next section mentioned below. It is labeled with an arrow:]

:[Very tine section covering only Alcatraz off the coast of San Francisco, CA. It is labeled with an arrow:]

:[ Large section covering most of MT as well as part of WY, SD and NE. The section has two titles:]

:[Medium section section covering most of  ID and part of MT:]

:[Medium section section covering part of OR, ID, NV and UT:]

:[Medium section section mainly covering the top part of NV:]

:[Medium section section covering most of NV and small part of CA. The section has two titles, with the second one standing with smaller font below the first plus description:]

:[Medium section section covering a large part of the southern part of CA around Hollywood, Los Angeles:]

:[Medium section section covering half of WY and small parts of UT and CO:]

:[Medium section section covering part of WY, CO and NE. The part in parenthesis in a smaller font:]

:[Medium section section covering a small part of the southern CA and small part of AZ. The part beneath the title in a smaller font:]

:[Medium section section covering most of NE and small parts of MN and IA. The section has three titles. The top two are marked with a square bracket to the left. The text of this given before the third title:]

:[Medium section section covering large parts of IA, MO and IL:]

:[Medium section section covering mainly KS, but also a small part of Co and OK:]

:[Medium section section covering most of OK and small part of MO and AR:]

:[Covering the top part of TX and small parts of OK and AR:]

:[A small circle centered around Detroit, MI completely inside the section here below. It is labeled with an arrow:]

:[Medium section section covering half of AR, small parts of IL and MO as well as bits of  KY, TN and MS:]

:[Medium section section covering half of PA and western part NY:]

:[Medium section section covering most of WV, half of TN, a small parts of KY as well as tiny bits of VA, NC and GA:]

:[Medium section section covering several large cities of the east coast including New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. It covers most of DE and NJ and large parts of MD (with DC) and the bit of NY with the city. The text is not a title and the it is written in square brackets…:]

:[Medium section section covering all of ME, the top tip of NH and eastern top of VT:]

 

Not everything {{w|Mark Twain}} wrote was really set on the {{w|Mississippi River}}. For instance, he first gained attention as a fiction writer with "{{w|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County}}," which is about {{w|Northern California}}. Indeed, during his lifetime, Twain was known mostly as a travel writer, not a novelist.

 

Kill Bill doesn't take place in southern or eastern Texas. The wedding chapel scene takes place in {{w|El Paso}}, around the same area No Country for Old Men takes place.

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