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lthough only separated Brooklyn writer who is in the process of at Tatiana Café in Brighton Beach to by a borough and a perpetually spinning his wheels on his struggling writers at Ozzie’s Coffee & Tea bridge, the new world of second novel. Inspired by a Raymond in Park Slope, the show works as a visual AHBO in Brooklyn is an Chandler detective story, Ames poses tour of Brooklyn. On Bored to Death’s entirely separate entity as a private detective on Craigslist and Web site is a “Bored in Brooklyn” feature from Carrie Bradshaw and her Sex and eventually finds himself in all kinds of where one can view, episode by episode, the City Manhattanites. Shows like Bored misadventures across the boroughs. what landmarks and establishments of to Death and Boardwalk Empire are a The show plays like a classic film noir Brooklyn are featured, complete with a part of the current boom in on-location but with pot instead of cigarettes and quote from the real Ames describing why filming in Brooklyn. reserved Woody Allen neuroses instead they chose to feature it. Bored to Death is the brainchild of of full-on sleuthing. One of the show’s great strengths is Brooklyn writer Jonathan Ames, who The show’s Ames lives in Fort Greene, the interplay between Manhattan and

S has named the shows protagonist, but that’s not to say that the show Brooklyn. Whereas shows like Sex and the E G A played by Jason Schwartzman, after doesn’t readily jump around Brooklyn. City or Friends truly treat Manhattan as I M Y T himself. In the show, Ames is a struggling From problems with Russian gangsters an island, Bored to Death is driven by the T E G 4 reOrder

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_ _ _ i vast cultural differences that can arise Christopher, played with an ideal Atlantic City, the show deals with tax break for the underdeveloped even between places that are in close mix of snark and insecurity by Ted one Nucky Thompson, played by Greenpoint lot and in prior geographical proximity. “Nothing will Danson. Brooklyn native Steve Buscemi; it’s locations, Winter was frustrated by ever have the energy of Manhattan When Danson decides to join a slightly true, slightly dramatized inconsistencies. and I think that’s why people come, Ames on his detective adventures rendering of real-life figure Nucky “Our first stop was Atlantic City, they come for the energy, and some midway through season one, you Johnson. Though a strait-laced which makes sense, but, realistically, leave because of the energy,” said see his desire to engage in the youth politician on the outside, Thompson there were maybe five or six camera Schwartzman to The Wall Street and vitality that is the emerging rises to influence and riches through angles that would work for the Journal about preparing for the show. Brooklyn. If you’re living in the city strong armed mob dealings and the 1920s,” Winter told the New York Post . “But with Brooklyn, I was able to and watching this show, it’s hard to smuggling of alcohol. Tommy guns, “Anywhere you turn now there are go into Manhattan and then come not want to get involved, too. Season speakeasies and vicious gore abound. dozens of things—casinos, hotels, home, and I felt like I had a little bit three will be start this year. But the show’s initial and etc., that can’t be there.” Another of room to stretch out, calm down a Whereas Bored to Death uses continuing stunner is the re-creation advantage of the Greenpoint set was bit and bring my pulse rate down.” Brooklyn for humor, juxtaposition of the Atlantic City boardwalk in the size, which allows for cast and The character of Ames is and irony, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Brooklyn’s Greenpoint; it spans 300 crew to be dressed, made up and fed comfortable within Brooklyn, where which recently finished its first feet. Costing an estimated $5 million without spilling onto the streets. he spends time with his best friend, season, uses Brooklyn as a foundation to build, the boardwalk was part of Apart from the boardwalk the Ray, played by Zach Galifianakis, for a sprawling, violent tale of crime the pilot’s $18 million gamble that crew makes use of the surrounding who bikes to the set from his place and corruption in the Prohibition paid off when the show was renewed areas of Brooklyn as well. The streets in Williamsburg. In Brooklyn, Ames era. Set in the Roaring Twenties of for a second season. The boardwalk around the boardwalk are used for wears corduroy casual suits and can is the centerpiece in the meticulous exterior shots and the Greenpoint mope in isolation with his weed and period reconstruction that gives concert venue Warsaw is sometimes white wine. In Manhattan, Ames “ I had a lIttle bIt Boardwalk Empire the feeling of an turned into a faux nightclub for switches to Brooks Brothers and extensive cinematic endeavor. the show, complete with a stage cocktails while he deals with varying of room to stretch The show’s creator and one of and 1920s décor. For special effects degrees of New York stereotypes. out, calm down a its writers, Terence Winter of The on the boardwalk, metal shipping These include, but certainly aren’t bIt and brIng my Sopranos, is from Marine Park, containers were stacked 20 feet limited to, horny and entitled NYU Brooklyn, and cites the Greenpoint high and covered in a blue screen, undergrads, zany film directors (Jim pulse rate down.” setting as a financial and logistical allowing Brooklyn-based effects Jarmusch guest-stars as himself) measure. The depressed real estate team Brainstorm Digital to re-create and Ames’ aging editor George market led to a 15 percent larger appropriate Atlantic City backdrops. Even the costumes are influenced by what costume designer John A. Dunn saw in the Brooklyn Museum. A premiere date for the show’s second season has not yet been announced. Although Manhattan will always be a desired and popular filming locale, the reality remains that on- location shooting there requires finances and resources. Brooklyn has become a unique alternative for both film and television productions to maintain some of that Manhattan flavor while creating the feel of something different entirely at a lower price. So if you can’t walk the stairs of a million-dollar brownstone or patrol the 1920s Atlantic City boardwalk by

S way of Brooklyn, at least there’s the E Jason Schwartzman of G A Bored to Death. vicarious worlds of HBO on Sunday I M Y T nights. T E G 6 Ah...spring!

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