This film is insulting


As someone who is from Uruguay I must say this film is completely disrespectful. I was watching this film and enjoying it up until the part where they show Szell's hideout in Uruguay. I was like: 'WHAT?', because apparently we have jungles here and I didn't even notice. I know most of you people don't even know where Uruguay is and don't care about this, but I ask you: if they depicted your country in a film in a completely wrong way, wouldn't you be pissed off?. Filmmakers should do a little research if they are going to put something in a film they know nothing about.
Luckily this mistake is shown in the goofs section for this movie:
"Errors in geography: Dr. Szell is supposed to be living in Uruguay before going to New York. We see shots of what is supposed to be Uruguay which show people traveling in canoes through the jungle, but in Uruguay there is no jungle."

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EDIT (7 years later): Hey guys, good news: I'm over it now.
Calling the film insulting was too much, I admit; I do remember being pretty irritated when I wrote the message above. Of course, that it inaccurately depicts Uruguay's geography is undeniable.
I would delete this post, but hey, many of your responses are pretty funny!


It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.
Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

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Lol my country gets depicted wrong all the time. In fact Family Guy mocks my country and my countrymen in almost every episode.

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I wouldn't say it was insulting. Dumb maybe. However, it might not have been possible to have filmed in a neighboring country with the required foliage. Or some other production restriction such as cost. Or it could have just been lazy location scouting on the part of the production team. Either way, I wouldn't take it personally. Most people outside of South America wouldn't have known that Uruguay is jungle-free. It's an interesting side-note on an otherwise great movie.

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Are you people serious? You got insulted/offended for this little thing which in the long end wasn't even that important to the plot?

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Besides, Uruguay was harboring its own share of Nazis for years and years

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A lot of the people who've seen this film would be too ignorant to know anything about Uruguay, let alone its geography. Sorry that a film misrepresented your country.

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Skylab23, I understand. If they couldn't film in Uruguay, the filmmaker should have filmed it in a location similar to Uruguay. Or, if they wanted a jungle location, don't call it Uruguay.

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