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   Paul S Person to All   
   Re: Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_   
   31 Jan 26 08:51:47   
   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:05:46 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person  writes:   
   >>On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:44:29 +1300, Titus G  wrote:   
   >>   
   >    
   >>   
   >>One weird thing I remember noticing: the maps showed them moving   
   >>to/along the /East/ Coast, but when the reached the ocean, it was to   
   >>the right when they were moving south (ie, /West/ Coast). Apparently,   
   >>it never occurred to the moviemakers to either use a map consistent   
   >>with what they were showing or shoot the beach scenes with the ocean   
   >>on the left by actually moving north along the coast. I could, of   
   >>course, have been mistaken about this.   
   >   
   >Someone probably just reversed the negatives accidentally in post   
   >production...   
      
   Since they filmed a lot of it in Eastern Washington, somewhere on the   
   Pacific coast of Washington or Oregon would surely have been closer   
   than somewhere on the Atlantic coast on the other side of the   
   continent.   
      
   Still, you /could/ be right. IIRC, such problems have occurred.   
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