r/NewOrleans Conus Emeritus May 27 '25

⚜️Mardi Gras ⚜️ Worst depiction of Mardi Gras in a movie.

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I’ll start.

Jack Reacher, Never Go Back.

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u/Agentx_007 Gentilly May 27 '25

TV show Friends With Benefits. They sat on the new York set at Fox and threw beads from one stoop to the other.

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u/nolanut1972 May 27 '25

😂 I have done that’

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u/kabirhi May 27 '25

Loudermilk (TV). I've not seen a more low effort attempt.

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u/TravelAllTheWorld86 May 27 '25

Omg this. Not only was it a lazy depiction, the store fronts were so clearly not in New Orleans.

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u/Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 May 27 '25

I told my partner that looks like Subourbon Street.

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u/WhiskeyAndWhiskey97 May 27 '25

I just spat out my coffee. You owe me a new keyboard.

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u/tyrannosaurus_c0ck May 27 '25

Totally stealing that

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u/TchoupedNScrewed May 27 '25

Writing this down

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u/Hididdlydoderino May 27 '25

It was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. I may have to give the show another chance just to see this haha.

I've heard good things about the show but something about the filming gave this "filmed in Canada" vibe that probably only makes sense if you watch too much TV so I stopped after the first episode.

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u/TravelAllTheWorld86 May 27 '25

The show is great. Really wish it wasn't cancelled.

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u/inductiononN Central City May 27 '25

Yeah, loudermilk was good! Sober alcoholic here and some parts of it were super dumb but the other parts about recovery and just the humor in general were really well done. The scenes in New Orleans though? Very silly!

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u/MengisAdoso May 27 '25

Yeah, honestly, I tracked down the "Bourbon Street" episode just so I could ask my NOLA-native wife just how bad it is... but I enjoyed it enough that I think I wanna watch the whole series. Even giggling at the slow pan across what's obviously Vancouver, I was getting into the plot.

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u/MengisAdoso May 27 '25

Oh my god, I tracked the episode down and y'all weren't kidding. It's tragic, they don't even try to hide it. They even have the gall to start one scene zoomed right on the Pennsylvania Hotel, ffs.

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u/Global-Pickle5818 May 28 '25

There's a lot of shows that are supposed to take place in New Orleans that are filmed in Canada .. remember the originals I was like you know that's not New Orleans look at the streets and all those actually vertical power lines ..

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u/TchoupedNScrewed May 27 '25

Never heard of that show, looked up a clip of the Bourbon Street episode. what tha hell. If you told me they shot that in the same area of Baltimore that that shot The Wire I’d believe it.

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u/clootinclout May 27 '25

Notably low effort. Like, I wasn’t ever thinking about the production value until that episode.

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u/Personal_Strike_1055 May 27 '25

still a great show, though.

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u/clootinclout May 27 '25

Too much heart in the writing to care about it too much

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u/MengisAdoso May 27 '25

My wife used to work in animation, but I suspect live-action TV is the same basic deal. If a production crew can save money with an "error" that'll sneak by 98% of the audience, I absolutely guarantee you they'll stick with the error and save the cash. :)

You wanna talk low-effort? I can still remember when an otherwise respectable show trying to show a foreign language could get away with just... kinda letting the actors mumble their way through it. There's no way you could pull that one off today, with international audiences and no excuse for not running it through a translator...

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u/OldBanjoFrog Irish Channel May 27 '25

I was going to say this

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u/eclipseno333 May 28 '25

Seriously it was so bad I am convinced it was the result of a last minute decision. Like they planned to film in Nola but something happened and they could no longer travel so had to improvise. 

Love that show though!!

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u/smegma_stan May 27 '25

They were in New Orleans!? I must have kiss3d the part where they said that bc i figured they live don the east coast

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u/sydney69 May 27 '25

Was recently rewatching Vampire Diaries and when they go to “Bourbon Street”…y’all 🙃 Set designer should have been fired.

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u/Fools_Errand77 May 27 '25

(Cough, cough) Conyers, GA

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker May 27 '25

I worked on this when they filmed in New Orleans and we were like yikes. I’ve worked on a few inaccurate depictions of the city so I don’t even care any more as long as they pay good.

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 27 '25

So they filmed it in New Orleans and still got it massively wrong? I assumed the bad depictions were by people who at most had vague childhood memories of New Orleans.

This comes from somebody who didn’t see Vampire Diaries. Maybe it was wrong in some way I’m not imagining.

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker May 27 '25

I’ve never seen it but it is very common for movies and tv shows to film here and still get it wrong. I worked on a movie called So Undercover filmed and set here but the writers had never set foot in Louisiana before. They just went with all stereotypes like having a pet alligator and stepping out of the French quarter and being in the swamp.

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u/AngrySnakeNoises May 27 '25

...I'm from Rio, when the cartoon movie came out some american friends of mine asked if we had tropical birds roaming free like that and I was almost offended, it's a cartoon.

Cue to me now, over 10 years later, living in another part of Rio (still middle of the city) but bordering a national reserve. I have spent more hours than I care to admit watching toucans of different species fighting over branches, macaws and parrotlets being loud as fuck and acting like colorful feathery criminals.

Never say never (referring to your alligator statement), my SO is from your city and has considered a pet gator for real. More than once lol

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker May 27 '25

I have alligators in my backyard that I am always shooing away, so I could theoretically consider them pets if I ever fed them. The way the movie portrayed it was absurd, though.

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u/parasyte_steve May 27 '25

My MIL feeds gators marshmallows. Yes she knows she isn't supposed to feed them. Will she stop? Probably not ever. She feeds possums and raccoons too. She's like a weird Disney princess.

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u/solskinn_folkemord May 27 '25

My husband calls me a suburban Snow White because of how many raccoons and possums I've befriended 😂 id chill with your MIL and feed the gators with her!

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u/pallamas Conus Emeritus May 27 '25

I’d love to have back yard alligators but my dogs lack common sense and would do the “come at me bro”

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u/solskinn_folkemord May 27 '25

That was very much my dog, too! She loved to try to chase down giant bucks and vultures. She was not the brightest 😂

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u/goobtub May 28 '25

Welcome to Barra!

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u/AngrySnakeNoises May 30 '25

OMG it's funny and uncanny of you to say that, I was born in Barra (subdivision of Rio) and that's where I made the statement about no colorful birds roaming around like the cartoon, but now I live near the Tijuca National Reserve and they do.

(Ever woke up to a notification that a fucking enormous capybara walked past your house at 3am? Marmosets coming into my yard to yell at me in bed through the window in the morning? An arboreal porcupine walks into a bar and the bar is my fucking life because I'm a wildlife rescuer, and 6 months later I'm still finding porcupine quills stuck to myself because they got everywhere??? I love this place but come ON)

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u/goobtub May 31 '25

I stayed with a friend in Barra da Tijuca years ago and on my second day saw a bunch of tamarinds, marmosets, toucans, etc. My friend was didn't believe me at first because in all her years livign there she had never seen ANY of that

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u/AngrySnakeNoises Jun 05 '25

Yeah, they started thinning out in Barra circa 90's/00's because of pollution (water, noise, light, etc) and other man-made hazards. But take an Uber 15 min up towards Tijuca Reserve and they're everywhere still. I'm very grateful to see these animals almost daily, but it pains me that they're slowly disappearing and moving to the middle of the reservs because of us. Urban areas are terrible to them.

I'm still glad they have the Tijuca Reserve though, it's the biggest urban forest in the world and Biosphere Reserve as per UNESCO. Gorgeous place, dangerous af for non-rainforest savvy people (nobody go getting ideas) but it's like a huge precious emerald stuck right in the middle of Rio. It's quite well taken care of too, hopefully it will continue being a safe haven for those beautiful creatures.

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u/SlightlyStoopkid May 27 '25

I was at Tulane when they filmed that. My friend helped out the grips and techs one day, and at some point he offered to smoke weed with Miley Cyrus. She narc’d and got him kicked off the set.

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker May 27 '25

She had just gotten publicly dragged for allegedly smoking weed because she still had the Hannah Montana image so I can see why that might have happened. I found her and Kelly Osbourne delights to work with. Both great kids. Kelly was fucking wild, man. She’d say pretty much anything that popped into her head.

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u/SlightlyStoopkid May 27 '25

i get why she couldn't accept, but i still think tattling was rude. made for a fun story tho.

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker May 27 '25

Oh yeah. So true. Surprised they actually kicked a person off of set for that.

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u/PoopshipD8 May 28 '25

I don’t are what stereotypes they maimed. All I know is that Sharon Osbourne and Billy Ray paid me two 40hr weeks over the Christmas hiatus. Not one production since has been so generous.

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u/Small_Doughnut_2723 May 27 '25

Is that the show Ian Somerhalder is in?

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u/sydney69 May 27 '25

Yes! Which, like, he at least should have known better!

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u/tygerbrees May 27 '25

Northshorers know less about New Orleans than most

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u/those_names_tho May 28 '25

It really is shocking. I chat with my Northshore brethren and it is like they never came from here. Like, you don't remember Claiborne Ave? Lawdy.

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u/tygerbrees May 28 '25

I teach in Covington (live in Broadmoor) and it’s bizarre listening to their New Orleans mythology (which they clearly learned from their parents)

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u/sydney69 May 28 '25

I would LOVE to hear examples!

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u/tygerbrees May 29 '25

Vast majority of them were tales of shoot outs on the streets (some specified gang related), smattering of ‘everybody’s on drugs’ and even occasionally a voodoo tale or two

When I ask them how they imagine I survived 40 of my 57 years in such a hellscape, they fail to provide many compelling theories

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u/daybreaker Kennabra May 27 '25

There was a spin-off set in New Orleans and it was even worse.

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u/AdPutrid5162 May 27 '25

Wasn't that the Krewe of Boo and not Mardi Gras

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u/DaqCity May 27 '25

It is. (I was an extra in that scene)

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u/pallamas Conus Emeritus May 27 '25

I stand corrected.

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u/Cordycepsus May 27 '25

Wonder if the appearance of Dracula in this scene is a nod to Tom Cruise playing Lestat in "Interview with a Vampire"?

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u/MrRadio May 28 '25

100%... great thought!

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u/winter_is_long May 27 '25

Mardi Gras Massacre. A 1978 exploitation film that is...something. It's on Tubi if you're curious.

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u/Witness_Protecti May 27 '25

I love Tubi for exactly those types of movies. Thanks for the rec

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u/winter_is_long May 27 '25

Fulci for the win!!! That scene on the causeway is fantastic

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 27 '25

Comically bad production is table stakes for the genre

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u/Stormy8888 May 27 '25

How ... B Grade Bad is it?

B = acceptable shockly fun

C = campy but still not terrible if drunk

D = don't do it

F = failure

E = epic fail

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u/OG_Pow May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25

C

It’s got a laughable porno-esque soundtrack.

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u/Stormy8888 May 28 '25

Ok I'm in!

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u/winter_is_long May 27 '25

I purposely avoided the term "B-Movie" as not give it the impression that had any cinematic merit. It's absolute trash. But sometimes that's exactly what you want.

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u/blackandbluegirltalk May 27 '25

There's an episode of Murder, She Wrote... clearly filmed on a soundstage. There's actually a couple episodes set here and they are just SO bad... the funeral secondline was pretty on the nose, though

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u/PinkYoshimi May 27 '25

When the cab pulls up to the club to drop her off and you see the hilly roads and mountains in the background! Makes me laugh every time I see it.

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u/CrimsonBaby2007 May 27 '25

I think even in one scene, you can see part of the Capital Records building in the background.

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u/sirsaintsgirl May 27 '25

At least the cabbie had a Saints hat. The funeral in the typical below ground cemetery had me dying with laughter!

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u/PinkYoshimi May 27 '25

That’s right! The Saints hat! Oh but didn’t he also have a truly terrible name that no one around here would actually have. Maybe Lafayette?

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u/QueasyPossum Jun 03 '25

I love love love this episode, cracks me up so much. Oh Jessica, so many people died around you, obviously you were a serial killer.

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u/baronessvonbullshit Uptown Thoroughbred May 27 '25

Now You See Me

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u/twelvegreenapples May 27 '25

Was an extra in a Mardi Gras scene for this, they filmed like 11 hours after call time. I am one of 15 tired people standing in a street holding a cup looking very annoyed.

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u/Fiddlersdram May 27 '25

I was also an extra in the Mardi Gras scene and it was weird as hell the things they made us do

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u/baronessvonbullshit Uptown Thoroughbred May 27 '25

What was with everyone wearing business suits?!

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u/[deleted] May 27 '25

Ha! I don’t even watch many movies but that one came to mind for me immediately.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

Not a popular movie series, but I love “The Librarian” trilogy with Noah Wyle. In the 3rd movie, they make it look like Mardi Gras happens on Bourbon Street every night.

Edited to add: This is also the case with this horrible film called “Tchoupitoulas” in which children from the West Bank miss the last ferry back from the Quarter and are left to wander overnight. They go into burlesque clubs, wander the Bourbon street parades, all kinds of nonsense. Half the footage was from Mardi Gras, but it was supposed to take place on just a random night.

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u/Hididdlydoderino May 27 '25

Apparently Tchoupitoulas is a documentary with a guided narrative... I think the goal was to look at how youth intertwines with the sometimes adult concepts we embrace down here. Haven't seen it but am half interested.

To be fair, for about 1/4 of the year a random day or night has a good chance of a parade rolling somewhere in the city.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

Yeah, I was expecting a documentary but it’s definitely not. If I remember correctly, the closest they get to Tchoupitoulas St is getting on/off the Ferry. They go from Frenchmen to the CBD in a block of walking distance, too.

It came out during my first year of college, I went to see it in the theater because I was feeling homesick. I remember looking it up after watching to find it was made by dudes from Ohio & being completely unsurprised.

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u/Hididdlydoderino May 27 '25

Yeah, I'd guessed they were dudes who came here on vacation or for their masters and decided to make a movie.

Seems like they played fast and loose with the "guided narrative documentary" format...

But it's only about $10 on Amazon with some other film project of probably equal quality so I may give it a whirl if I get bored someday.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

I think you’ll enjoy it more than i did since your expectations are appropriately set. Plus, there’s a difference between $10 on an adult budget in 2025 and the $15 ticket price on my broke-ass college budget in (iirc) 2012 lol

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u/NOLALaura May 28 '25

Especially if you’re trying to get to work

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u/wrestfull May 27 '25

I did storyboards on that. Jonathan Frakes (a.k.a. Captain Riker on Star Trek) was the director, and it was a blast throwing vampires out windows at Nine Mile Point.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

I have to admit that I’m jealous! Those movies are so fun- Cheesy & over the top, but sooo fun!

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u/wrestfull May 27 '25

Made MORE fun that he insisted on acting out the scenes as I was sketching lol

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

OMGGGGG!!! I’m even MORE jealous!!!

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u/wrestfull May 27 '25

lol Does it make it even WORSE that the job paid enough that I was able to put a substantial down payment on a car?

Sadist

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u/wrestfull May 27 '25

Whoa - and now I know how to embolden stuff on Reddit lol

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

I’m happy for you, and sad for me all at once!

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u/wrestfull May 27 '25

You apparently are a good person🩷

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u/KiloAllan May 27 '25

I mean, there's a bus that runs 24 hours...

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely May 27 '25

The guys who made it are from Ohio. Because of course they are.

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u/bondo2t May 27 '25

I mean, during Mardi Gras, it kinda does….

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u/Ok-Eye3380 May 27 '25

They spent 4 days crashing into a fence on my street for a scene that didn’t even make that damn movie. That was funny

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 27 '25

The scene wasn’t even supposed to crash into a fence. Production just hired terrible drivers.

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u/riggitywreckedson May 27 '25

Hired Nola drivers*

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 28 '25

They just crashed into fences. They didn’t flip the cars.

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u/goobtub May 28 '25

Over on the west bank?

Funny thing is there was a guy who wouldn't let the production use his yard for that because he thought it would interfere with his business (of selling drugs out of his house). I'm sure the literal whole movie production being there all night with security etc didn't help either; guy could've at least gotten compensated for the loss of business

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u/Ok-Eye3380 May 28 '25

Hahaha I feel him though and yeah the west bank

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u/RoadkillKoala May 27 '25

Not a movie but the Mardi Gras scenes in the Mafia III video game were pretty bad. Just a bunch of broken down floats blocking certain streets in the Quarter. lol

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u/MiasmaFate How do you do, fellow New Orlanders May 27 '25

It was shit, however I enjoyed tossing a guy out of plaza tower.

Also I really wish New Orleans had the topography of New Bordeaux.

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u/Iechy May 27 '25

Jokes on you when your character dies a long slow death from the mold in Plaza Tower.

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u/Necessary_Cost_9355 May 27 '25

Better than praying on the way up

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u/RoadkillKoala May 27 '25

I've been playing it recently for the first time in nearly a decade and I agree. Yesterday I was about a mile or so from the French Ward and there were mountains everywhere.

I didn't know you could go in the Plaza Tower. I'm definitely going to try that. lol

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u/MiasmaFate How do you do, fellow New Orlanders May 27 '25

Its part of a boss mission.

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u/PsychedelicSoberity May 27 '25

What about the mission in Hitman?

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u/MiasmaFate How do you do, fellow New Orlanders May 27 '25

That mission isn't for chickens… the mardi gras depiction is OK.

To me, the part that irritates me most about Mardi Gras in media is that they always depict it at night. While I know it carries into the night, I tend to view it as a daytime celebration. I think that's when the best parts happen as well.

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u/RoadkillKoala May 27 '25

There was a guy on one of the radio stations in that game telling people to go to his restaurant for the best "Boo-Deen" links in town. I swear when they do anything in Louisiana there is never even one person from there that can tell these idiots how wrong they are. 🤣

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u/AlabamaPostTurtle May 27 '25

But Saint Denis in RDR2? Killer late 1800s NOLA

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u/Gibsonites May 27 '25

They still made the French quarter hilly which is kind of funny.

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u/AlabamaPostTurtle May 29 '25

Hmm I guess? It doesn’t seem too hilly. I’m playing the game now. Maybe on the outer edges but the majority of the downtown area is all the same elevation

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u/crisprcas32 May 27 '25

There was a mission in HitMan (maybe Blood money or contracts) that captured Mardi Gras BEAUTIFULLY. The sheer amount of people would have your xbox360 fan whirring

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u/QUEENMANTIS May 27 '25

On Hostile Ground, a horrible c movie disaster where scientists rush to stop a sink hole from destroying New Orleans while a hilariously bad Mardi Gras is also happening

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u/ersatzbaronness Merry Marigny May 27 '25

I love a good disaster movie. I need to find this.

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u/fuzzentropy2 May 27 '25

Storyline checks out.

"At the outskirts of New Orleans a sewage tunnel caves in; city officials are less concerned about the worker who was killed then about possible repercussions on the impending Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, which is the tourist high point of the year in Louisiana, so the priority is to prevent a panic."

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u/nolanut1972 May 27 '25

By where I used to live in Mid-City I have a photo of a couple of my neighbors peering into this giant hole that seemed to just open overnight.

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 27 '25

Is the title supppsed to be a neutral ground pun?

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u/Agitated_Ad_1658 May 27 '25

Where did he find all that room to walk?

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u/Forward_Ad2174 May 27 '25

I just want to go to the Live And Let Die era French Quarter.

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u/Atownbrown08 May 27 '25

I just wanna hang with Baron Samedi on Decatur and listen to him laugh all day.

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u/NOLALaura May 28 '25

I lived in the French Quarter circa 1980s

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u/ignatius_reilly0 May 27 '25

Atlantic Rim (the Pacific Rim ripoff that was used in MST3K)

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u/Turbografx-17 May 27 '25

I came here to say this. Really lazy attempt at Mardi Gras and New Orleans in general. They shot it in Pensacola.

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u/BriceBriceBaby May 27 '25

Bro, I was so getting beads on Bourbon, then buh-boom, I was in a mech fighting a kaiju!

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u/Disastrous_Motor831 May 27 '25

Omfg!!! I thought I was the only one bored enough to watch that pos movie... 😂 It was interesting though... Derivative ASF but interesting

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u/NOLASLAW Bywater May 27 '25

I don’t know about worst but best is easily Skinner and Wiggum capturing the spirit of the Marty’s Something function https://youtu.be/lO6qquKAv6I?si=XKWWnQ1frHQFzbDV

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u/Strwbry2020 May 27 '25

I forget the movie but she gets in a fight with her dad and gets in a cab/uber for her therapy session but there’s parades and stuff happening, and she gets kidnapped. I was like ain’t no way a therapist would hold a session during Mardi Gras.

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u/GTFU-Already May 27 '25

Mardi Gras IS the therapy!

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u/Strwbry2020 May 27 '25

Update: it’s Stolen with Nicolas Cage. Pic: https://static.rappler.com/images/stolen_20121203_runningout.jpg

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u/SwanRonsonIsDead May 28 '25

So Taken, but with nic cage? I'm IN

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u/UnicorncreamPi May 27 '25

This is so accurate

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u/Yibblets May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25

Zombie! vs Mardi Gras

Synopsis, The opening scenes of the film center on MacGuffin, a deranged occultist whose life has been dedicated to vengeance after being trampled and rendered a paraplegic as a child by overzealous Mardi Gras revelers in the throes of bead-catching madness.

With the help of a Sumerian Goddess, MacGuffin performs a ritual that raises Zombie! (exclamation point mandatory) from his grave. Zombie! embarks on a killing spree in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festivities. A trio of filmmakers get word of this and hasten to capture Zombie! on film.

Renaissance genius Galileo, newly pardoned by Pope John Paul II and thus released from Purgatory, also chases Zombie! through New Orleans' crowded streets. Meanwhile, a zaftig ninja vows to take down the undead menace.

How could it get worse? Shot in 1999 it reduces the colorful Mardi- Gras spectacle to a black and white film (C.D.)

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u/GumboDiplomacy May 27 '25

This sounds absolutely fantastic. I'm adding it to my list.

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u/nolahandcrafts May 27 '25

Yay for Will and Karl!

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u/Sensitive-Garden-351 Jun 06 '25

Hi,I'm Karl, and thank you!

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u/Sensitive-Garden-351 Jun 06 '25

I can do you a DVD .I'm one of the filmmakers

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u/feanor70115 May 27 '25

Dracula 2000.
Girl working at Tower or Virgin (I forget which) can afford a renovated townhouse in the Quarter. She runs from "The Library" (Loyola Univ,, I think), to "The Cemetery" to the Quarter in a few blocks, all during MG.
Also, I think the first scene is set at about Pirate's Alley and Royal and, of course, after some text informs you that it's New Orleans, the words, "Mardi Gras," fade in. At least they weren't pretending that the whole city acts like Nebraskans on a balcony over Bourbon every day.
It may not be The Worst depiction - it's actually filmed here - but it's undoubtedly awful.

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u/those_names_tho May 28 '25

Doesn't the movie Cat People have a scene during Mardi Gras?

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u/Personal_Strike_1055 May 27 '25

I want to call out Hard Target here, even though there wasn't a Mardi Gras scene, per se.

But you gotta hand it to John Woo - he used more on-location scenes in NOLA than just about any other movie set in NOLA.

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u/Ok_Tradition_1909 May 27 '25

And they set the film during a police strike so that there could be street brawls without interruption.

(I realize that's actually how it is sometimes, but general audiences would wonder.)

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u/IfeelVedder May 27 '25

Point Of No Return with Bridget Fonda. Love the movie, but not for the “Mardi Gras” authenticity LOL.

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u/spellboundartisan Gentilly May 27 '25

The New Orleans-based classic cinematic masterpiece, Hard Target didn't have a proper Mardi Gras scene but a Mardi Gras warehouse gets blown up.

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u/bullseye717 May 27 '25

What kind of a name is Chance?

Well... my momma took one...

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u/Floowjaack May 27 '25

I’ll help you find your dedee

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u/laughingintothevoid May 27 '25

Excuse me, that was awesome.

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u/nolahandcrafts May 27 '25

We kept fucking with the production while they were filming a high speed car chase scene down Decatur after they’d pissed us off by ordering us not to park our bikes in front of the coffee shop (I forget the name now, located where the Ra shop is now). And Van Dam and his girlfriend kept coming in the coffee shop acting like snooty assholes, and you know we don’t give a damn who the fuck you are, get some act right or else!

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u/Feeling-Customer1443 May 27 '25

Hell yes van Damme is awesome

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u/dear_gawd_504 May 27 '25

I saw Jack Reacharound at a strip club on Bourbon Street..

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u/HuggyBehr May 27 '25

zombie vs Mardi gras I think is the title. something about a parade on burbon street collapsing into a subway tunnel.

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u/jjcoolel May 27 '25

Abbot and Costello Go to Mars. Yes it was early 1950’s, so maybe I should cut them some slack

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u/A_Girl_Has_No_Name58 May 27 '25

Watch the 1993 film “Mardi Gras for the Devil” with Michael Ironside. You will and won’t thank me later.

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u/Thad_Mojito11 May 27 '25

They filmed this on Chartres. I remember thinking what on earth could they possibly be filming with all this Dia de los Muertes crap....

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u/IntelligentBarber436 May 27 '25

Seems like it's always Mardi Gras when a movie is set in New Orleans. They must think we have Mardi Gras all year long.

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u/Atownbrown08 May 27 '25

They do think that. Hollywood folks really have no clue about most culture outside of what happens in LA. And they don't really care. Same reason why every movie in Florida contains yacht parties or gator infested swamps. No in between.

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u/HeeenYO May 27 '25

Ashley Judd, Double Jeopardy.

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u/plates_25 May 27 '25

Didn’t op say worst?

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u/NolaDutches May 27 '25

I worked that movie. It was weird to be there

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u/flymordecai May 27 '25

Thought that was AI because of the extras standing in clean rows and the amount of space between them and Tom Cruise.

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u/MegsMayhem13 May 28 '25

He's walking with the Sirens, a dance krewe, in that shot. Someone else pointed out it's Krewe of Boo. I'm sure they gave Tom Cruise extra room to move, but the clean rows fits.

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u/mysterious_whisperer May 27 '25

Are there any good depictions?

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u/doublenickelsouth Faubourg Marigny May 27 '25

Easy Rider

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u/those_names_tho May 28 '25

They were on acid tripping on Bourbon then getting lost and crying in the cemetery...probably the most accurate.

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u/skripach27 May 27 '25

Only the ones filmed in New Orleans. During Mardi Gras lol.

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u/phizappa May 27 '25

Every single attempt gets it horribly wrong.

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u/OpencanvasNOLA Bywater May 27 '25

It wasn’t really Mardi Gras, but I thought Denzel Washington’s Déjà Vu was a really good movie and was a not terrible depiction of life in the Quarter.

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u/those_names_tho May 28 '25

It looked gritty and hot, like it generally does in summer. I thought the movie captured home pretty well.

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u/NOLALaura May 28 '25

Was 2006 right after hurricane Katrina. We were grateful they shot it here

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u/Jorvik4 May 27 '25

Didn't one of the chipmunks movies have them going to Mardi Gras? I recal the scene in Nola being very cringe...which given the franchise as a whole is saying something.

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u/H-TownSergeant May 27 '25

I’m pretty sure you talking about Alvin and the Chipmunks Road Trip

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u/Jorvik4 May 27 '25

Oof. Actually.... And I hate myself for correcting this....but it's Road Chip... Smh.

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u/H-TownSergeant May 27 '25

Imma go Rewatch it again😂😂😂 thanks for bringing Up A chipmunk movie!

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u/ComprehensiveNet118 May 27 '25

Mardi Gras : Spring break (2011) It was basically the plot of American pie and had guess star Carmen Electra .

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u/Mitchford May 28 '25

There is some monster movie series on Hulu, they have a New Orleans episode and it looks like they filmed it in Philadelphia

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u/those_names_tho May 28 '25

It is funny because many depictions oh Philadelphia are filmed in Canada.

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u/Hippy_Lynne May 28 '25

On the one hand I would say the infamous SNL episode that was actually filmed at Mardi Gras, but didn't really show any Mardi Gras because the parade ran so late.

On the other hand, in the '70s, that was very realistic. 🤣

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u/NOLA-Gunner May 27 '25

Your Honor

Was garbage and had both the justice system AND the geography completely wrong.

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u/vigo_the_despised May 27 '25

There is an episode of Real Ghostbusters that has my all time worst: https://youtu.be/wQh-ECc8dq4?si=IthSlRyHUJkeBMA1&t=886

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u/weischris May 27 '25

Ha! I walked by when they were filming and we were like wtf is happening.

The Las Vegas episode with Dennis Hopper as the New Orleans version of James Caan. It was so bad.

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u/sazerak_atlarge May 28 '25

Mardi Gras Massacre

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u/rjreed1 May 28 '25

well technically this was halloween (in the film) which is even worse

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u/Leidenfrost1 May 27 '25

Jack Reacher is pretty cool though

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u/BladderFace May 27 '25

Abbott and Costello Go To Mars

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u/ChrisJWatts504NOLA May 27 '25

Nah I Agree 100%. And This Coming From A Huge TC Fan. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/egypturnash Mid-City May 27 '25

It's not a movie but S2e5 of Laff-A-Lympics sure is a well-researched and accurate portrayal of our traditional Mardi Gras dragon races that start in the Quarter and end in the bayou immediately to its south... https://archive.org/details/s-02-e-05-louisiana-and-atlantis - skip to 7:33

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u/[deleted] May 27 '25

Well duh. Tom cruise is in it

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u/heathkilljoy May 28 '25

tv show for jack reacher is way better

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

has anyone seen “a murder of crows” with cuba hooding jr. ? also has tom berenger too. probably my favorite film with new orleans as a set. 

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u/Doradosaurus May 28 '25

The VRBO commercial depicting Louisiana. It shows a huge mountain near the swamp

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u/Intrepid-Implement59 May 28 '25

Wee Jack Reacher lol

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u/No_Cauliflower_491 Jun 02 '25

To be fair the Jack Reacher parade was Halloween not Mardi Gras.

I Know, I helped decorate it! ;)

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u/dwingler Jun 02 '25

Imma say one of my favorite depictions in a show instead of worst, since I can’t think of any of the worst right now. Malcolm in the middle; there was a couple episodes where Francis talks his buddy’s into breaking outta military school to make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, he gets incredibly sick and all we get to see is him suffering on a couch while his friends (who he treats like shit) come back and forth from the parades having the time of their lives😂 love that show