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 JZ> Wasn't that scene filmed in the Smokies?
   That's what I had thought until very recently. The Smokies were
listed for filming, and considering that they are known for their
giant forests, I figured that is where that scene must have been filmed.
But it turns out that the opening forest scene
was filmed in the Big Ivy area of Pisgah N.F.

JZ> Of course it was suppossed to
JZ> be in NY state. Funny how film makers think nobody will notice.
  I heard that the director of the Last of the Mohicans originally
thought about filming in the Adirondacks but rejected the idea after
reading about how they had been completely cut-over (he insisted on
filming in the wild, ancient forest that was around at the time of the
movie's setting). Actually, it isn't true that they have been entirely
cut-over but many books, especially those out at that time, tended to
say they had been or only mention the Five Ponds Wilderness which
probably wouldn't have sounded too viable for Hollywood filming.
Anyway, because of that, he moved south, way south.

JZ>Like the
JZ> scene in the Dearhunter when the hunters are up in the mountains of PA,
JZ> except the scene was film in what looks like the Cascades.
  Heh, that is getting pretty extreme!
Oh dear, even moreso than I first thought- the "'Dear'hunter". Yikes.

One of the Jackie Chan movies had 'NYC' filmed somewhere out in
the PNW with towering mountain peaks rising up behind the skyline. :)

 Some, such as 'Dirty Dancing' (Catskills) which was
set in various sites all south of the Mason-Dixon line, don't look too
far off though.