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Any movie that depicts the pyramids of Giza as being in the middle of pristine deep desert is kind of funny. I mean, when you look up pictures online they are always angled to give the impression. It adds mystique to think the pyramids are at least a little difficult to reach. The reality is that the city goes basically right up to them. You can take a taxi from the city and get within American walking distance.

The pyramids are of course flooded with tourists, so any daring adventurer would in reality have to push their way past a family of six from Iowa to get to the hidden chamber of the pyramid.

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American walking distance

How could you do this

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Thank you for posting this. Reminds of pictures taken from a fast-food chain (don’t remember which one) where you can see the pyramids through the window

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Adventure!

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That’s the one!

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This picture pisses me off Everytime I see it because they didn’t line up the Pizza Hut logo to give the pyramid a hat.

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The view Frasier has of the Seattle skyline was completely impossible without rearranging city blocks and moving buildings around the city.

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Are you suggesting the show was all some sort of extended Twilight Zone bit where Fraiser had the consciousnesses of everyone else trapped inside of a world where he was essentially a god, and forced them to play out petty interactions, never letting the facade slip lest they incur his wrath?

Is Maris a living example of what happens when Fraiser is angered to the point of punishment? Is that why we never see her? Is her visage as a being that has no mouth but must scream so horrific that it must be hidden from the viewing audience at all costs?

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Plus, one of them pronounced Lake Chelan like She-lawn, not, She-laan…and that just ruined it for me.

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Brazil is always misrepresented everywhere, but two funny cases come to mind:

There was a House episode where Dr. House was treating a CIA officer who had been to Bolivia and had eaten a lot of nuts. At the end of the episode House realized the officer has actually been to Brazil and not Bolivia and then figures out that he ate Brazil Nuts, which could cause all the symptoms he had. In reality Brazil Nuts are much more common in Bolivia than they are in Brazil (or anywhere else).

The other case was Westworld, Vincent Cassel speaks perfect Portuguese while playing an American character, talking to a Brazilian character whose actor speaks it incorrectly and with an extremely loaded accent.

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Fast and Furious 5 comes to mind, with the awful portuguese and the stupid american desert that’s apparently around Rio de Janeiro.

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Ah yes, notoriously arid Rio.

Did they throw a yellow filter in the camera, too?

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They always show India incorrectly, way more colourful and cleaner than it is. I think mostly not shot here too. Especially in older movies. Also the people speak English in an accent that only Indians abroad speak in.

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Also the people speak English in an accent that only Indians abroad speak in.

Curious about this, are the local accents very different?

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