The bank robbery scenes are action-packed, but don't seem terribly menacing, even though Gosling roughs up a few bank patrons played by local extras. 1st National Bank of Scotia, two locations: 1476 Balltown Road, Niskayuna and 201 Mohawk Ave., Scotia. They did not sample the drive-in's popular eggplant fries.Ħ. Touching scene with Gosling and Mendes, who order ice cream under the big clown sign and take a snapshot together beside the motorcycle. Between takes, young Hispanic women in an apartment across the street spoke animatedly in Spanish with Mendes.ĥ. She is living with her mother and boyfriend and they drive off in a red Bronco II while Gosling fumes. After discovering he is a father, Gosling rides up on his motocross bike, walks up the steps of the pine-shrouded house and confronts Mendes clutching her baby. Private residence, Watt Street near Southgate Drive, Schenectady. Two scenes shot at the diner made the final cut.Ĥ. No word on how well she was tipped for her service. Mendes worked a few night shifts unannounced in preparing for her role. At the familiar Formica counter, Gosling reunites with his last-summer fling, Romina, played by Eva Mendes. He's a biker who recently commissioned a custom Harley racer from Deus Ex Machina in Venice, Calif., according to the biker website.ģ. Gosling did a lot of the riding and a few of the less-dangerous stunts himself. He rides both a Suzuki DR 2400 and a Honda XR650R in scenes, according to the Hell for Leather magazine's website. Gosling goes here to buy a motocross bike he uses to rob banks. M &S Cycle, 139 Freemans Bridge Road, Scotia. It's a mesmerizing introduction to Ryan Gosling's character, Luke, a muscled, tattooed, peroxide-blond traveling carnival motorcycle stunt rider with a fraught past who performs in the "Globe of Death" attraction.Ģ. Stunning opening scene, a long tracking night shot that captures the kaleidoscopic sights and sounds during the fair's mid-August run in 2011. Of course, the only way hundreds of local extras who pass in a blur in the background will be able to tell if they made the final cut will be to wait for the DVD and freeze-frame it or pore over the outtakes.ġ. Here is a guide to some of the film's locations ( click here for a map). The movie was shot at more than a dozen area locations and the filmmakers - several of whom have family ties to Schenectady - achieved a powerful authenticity by using real police officers, real street names and extras who live here. It's hard to find redeeming qualities in the movie's themes, where cops and politicians are corrupt, sons inherit the sins of the fathers and a moral rot at the core infects everyone. It is depicted as dark and brooding, with shafts of menacing light filtering through towering pines in close-ups, and in the next frame it is serene and soft as seen from gorgeous wide shots of the city at dawn. That's not counting the throngs of screaming, sign-waving female fans who stalked stars Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling from location to location, snapping thousands of cellphone shots and begging for autographs.Īfter the lights go down in the theater, you've never seen the city like this: ripe with ambiguity and layers of guilt and memory and loss. The independent film, released nationally on Friday by Focus Features, was shot entirely on location in and around Schenectady during the summer of 2011 and included hundreds of Capital Region extras.
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