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metropolis!

Speaking of Metropolis, I watched the movie again last night. (The crazy animated Japanese Rin Taro/Tezuka one. Not the Fritz Lang one. I haven't yet been able to sit through the latter. Have to do that some time).

So I was watching Metropolis. As we all know, there's this neat little map in one scene that has a whole bunch of Ontario place names on it. And that's way cool. I was paying a bit more attention, then, when we got to the scene where we see Metropolis from space.

[Metropolis!] It only lasts a second. But I saw it. I hit pause. I did a slow reverse on the DVD. Back and forth a couple times. I blinked. I stared. I thought there must be something wrong.

Metropolis is Belleville.

I'm serious. John didn't believe me either. What you see in that very short scene is this beam of light shooting out of the Ziggurat. The beam originates from near the shore of a body of water that looks very much like Lake Ontario. See for yourself. The pictures are up above there.

My video capture card is currently in a machine running Linux, and I haven't gotten around to hacking things so that the drivers actually work (stupid Linux), these aren't captures from the DVD. They're captures from a promo clip you can see for yourself here.

But I digress. Yes, John was a bit sceptical, too, when I showed him the evidence. To the right, you'll see the closest image to this area I could find on NASA's website. Uncanny, isn't it? That's Lake Ontario. The cool penninsula is beautiful Prince Edward County, which I have mentioned on these pages once or twice. You can see the St Lawerence snaking off to the Atlantic. Nestled up on the other side of the Bay of Quinte is my hometown. The city from which Duke Red shoots laser beams at the sun. How cool is that?

I'll admit, the Metropolis image isn't perfect. The County stretches a little to far into the St Lawerence Delta. Lake Erie isn't quite right, if it's there at all, and it looks like they turned the Adirondack Forest Preserve in Upstate New York into a really big lake. But that doesn't hinder the fact that Metropolis is Belleville. And that's just cool.

comments:

tinkerer writes:

Good heavens, squirrel! I had no idea you lived in such a hot bed of hockey heaven...you are literally surrounded by OHL teams! Wow. I mean, here in WHL country, teams are so spread apart we encompass three time zones. Where you are, you could spit across the street and hit a rival. Thanks for the map--I ought to have looked at one sooner. Hm, maybe I should move to New York...

Submitted 2002-08-25 23:47:05

flying squirrel writes:

You know, it's kind of odd. The Bulls' games were a big thing in Belleville, but I don't really don't hear much of anything about the Kitchener Rangers in Waterloo. (I might get lynched for saying so, but Kitchener and Waterloo pretty much one city in all but name and government).

But you're right. There are about 5 OHL teams within an hour's drive of here (Kitchener, Guelph, London, Brampton and Mississauga). Ontario's a big place (the Sault Greyhounds have a bit of a drive), but most of the action is in a pretty small area.

Submitted 2002-08-27 10:55:17

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