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Where is it set?

posted 19 years ago by moviedude-72
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I know it's set in Australia, but what city. Isn't it Melbourne?

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[–] kevinlew 19 years ago

Pretty sure the film is set in Sydney.

[–] nic_d161 18 years ago

Yes, it's in Sydney! They show you Martin Place, and the Opera House, and Josie even travels over the Harbour Bridge. Are we Sydney-siders really so unknown? =( Melbourne has way less interesting stuff than that.

[–] Sweet_Ophelia 18 years ago

Well Melbourne is way cooler than Sydney, sorry to say.

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[–] suave_sage 18 years ago

I live in adelaide, damn, I'd love to live in a big city like sydney for a little while. there is realy nothing much to do here in adelaide, except to start a band.

[–] yerwhatever 18 years ago

haha yeah adelaide sucks, i hate it! cant wait til uni, i wanna get into melbourne uni.. still have a few yrs wait tho. yr 9. ouch.

[–] Thomas_man 18 years ago

LOL at Melbourne being better than Sydney.
Ive lived in there until I was 15 and Melbourne just dosen't compare.
Melbourne tries to be something it's not.
More tourists come to see Sydney than little old Melbourne and that is a fact they find really hard to swallow. Fact is most people see Australia as Sydney and haven;t even heard of the little brother.
Sydney has everything for everybody.

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[–] sibylla-dammann 18 years ago

no melbournes really ugly, especially that new super UGLY place

[–] asmithforu 18 years ago

Josie and Jacob don't travel over the Harbour Bridge, they go over the Anzac Bridge.

[–] talzzzy 18 years ago

I live in Melbourne and i LOVE it.
And iv been to Sydney I liked it.
Apparently Sydney is the place to visit, Melbourne is the place to live...I mean Melbourne is the sporting capital of Australia, the fashion capital of Australia, the shopping capital of Australia and one of the worlds most livable cities...cant compete with that!

But still it doesnt really matter they've both got good and bad points.

[–] jj_zep 18 years ago

Yeah it's set in Sydney, they go to Bondi Beach at the start...

[–] sibylla-dammann 18 years ago

Sorry but chappel street just has bad shops. you can get exacty the same BIGGER shops in sydney. anyway, hmmmmmm..... where is the AIS (i.e. the AUSTRALIAN INSTITURE of SPORT) mabye....... Canberra! Anyway, there are no beaches is Melbourne, well there are, but there just as bad as England. Anyway, whats filmed in Melbourne, Neighbours. Whats filmed in Sydney, HOME AND AWAY (which by the way is way more popular than Neighbours and by what im seeing, WAYYYYY more BETTER and {Neighbours coppies Home and Away Three Weeks later}). Sorry Melbourne people, but Sydney is just sooooo much better.

[–] ehawker 18 years ago

Obviously the education in Melbourne is far better than Sydney, purely basing it on your spelling and grammar.

BTW, Melbourne University > Sydney University. (Times Higher Education Rankings)

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[–] ellen_elizabeth89 18 years ago

Another Sydney landmark is when Josie is in the quad at Sydney Uni.

It's interesting how Melbourne feels the need to be competitive with Sydney. In Sydney we really don't care about that rivalry stuff.

[–] ehawker 18 years ago

I'm sure that if you took the time to look, a member from Sydney first compared the two, not a member from Melbourne.

Please also note the hypocrisy in your post, ellen_elizabeth89.

[–] nic_d161 18 years ago

No, I said Sydney had more interesting stuff. I didn't say it was better - I'd quite like to visit Melbourne sometime and I was thinking about going to uni there, before I realised the ANU is ranked higher than both Sydney AND Melbourne unis on the Times Ranking.

Anyway it's true, Sydney DOES have more tourist attractions than Melbourne. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.

PS I know Josie and Jacob go over the Anzac Bridge on the motorbike. But I'm pretty sure at one point in the film we see the Harbour Bridge... maybe it's through Michael's apartment, or when they're on the train.

[–] nj-ferguson 17 years ago

this was one of the saddest things i have ever read. really need to get over yourselves!

[–] master_shopa 17 years ago

Yes we do see the harbour bridge at one time

There are hundreds of recognisable land marks in this movie for me
I have watched movies in the theater that josie and jacob went to and I was like YES!! when I saw it lol
and when they are walking down George street!
I love that area of Sydney

but I want to point out that this feud between which city is better it pointless
there can be no winner because no side will back down

both cities have great areas

then again both cities have crappy ones too

[–] write2channy 17 years ago

As someone has previously mentioned, it was filmed in Sydney.

The school where it was set is Kincoppal and all girls school located in Rose Bay, which is on the eastern suburbs. I had a cousin who went there and it has some of the best views of the cbd and harbour bridge.
Oh and the set of have a say day, it was actually filmed on the steps of the opera house. :)

[–] Max_Sydney 12 years ago

The book was about growing second/third generation migrants growing up in Sydney's Inner-West. It may seem like it was shot in Melbourne as the inner-west is more culturally similar to Melbourne than the rest of Sydney.
It was filmed on-location around the inner-west. Esp. older Italian suburbs like Croydon and Haberfield, which have subsequently become gentrified and anglicised. It was filmed in the nicest part of inner-west (Glebe) where a lot other great Australian shows are set, like 'Always Greener'. http://youtu.be/CjrnDJNt6Ow?t=53s

Melinda Merchetta goes into more detail about the culture of the inner-west in the sequel books.

The house itself in Croydon where Alibrandi lives in the movie is still there.