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After I returned from one of my two trips to NO this year I was intrigued about what I saw and it's oddities. So I picked a couple of films out that dealt with New Orleans. One that I encourage alot of people to watch is:
As a warning, it is Rated R and has some strong language and some partial side nudity, but is VERY, VERY good for showing you the side of New Orleans that is suffering the most. Take special note of the lifestyle and the residences, etc.
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What about Live and Let Die? Not only is it possibly the most awesomely bad Bond movie ever made, and a wittier and more hilarious parody of itself than any of the Austin Powers movies, but a great deal of it was filmed in Louisiana. '70s bayou culture at its most unique. And a boat chase scene that makes The Transporter 2 look like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Wasn't Down By Law set around that area? If a combination of Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and Jim Jarmusch isn't good enough for you, your standards are too high.
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Part of Easy Rider was set in Louisiana. It's been too long for me to remember how much, or how accurately it represented the culture, though.
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What about Interview with the Vampire? I've never seen it, but I know that at least the Sting song based on it talked a lot about New Orleans, and I thought the movie was based there.
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The movie was filmed there, but aside from some parts set on plantations, there isn't much about the actual culture of New Orleans.
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It was only a short bit, but one of the most hilarious segments of The Rutles was set around New Orleans.
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If you ever get a chance to see the MST3K version of Boggy Creek II, you'll have all the bayou culture you can stand.
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It's been years since I've seen it, and I don't remember whether it's actually set in New Orleans, but Eve's Bayou is a great movie set in Louisiana. I think it has Cajun/voodoo culture in it (but like I said, it's been years.).
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