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I went to the Museum of Liverpool today and they have a big section on the city in film and TV and it has appeared in a lot more than media than you'd think but largely standing in for elsewhere.
When it is featured as itself, the depictions are usually pretty accurate because they've been written by locals. I suppose the worst example is 51st State but that is over-the-top and so everything is rather cartoonish - my brother's friend was an extra in that gang of punks but was largely left on the cutting floor.
1940s New York for a chemically enhanced all American soldier, get yourself down to Liverpool docks. π
Yes, that is one of the more high profile example, along with places like St George's Hall standing in for Gotham in Batman. First Avenger was filmed in the Stanley Dock area and the adjacent dock road - apart from the big "Brooklyn" sign it's actually pretty unaltered as there's some interesting buildings down there (not sure if the hexagonal clock gets screentime you see the box bridge, the main dock walls, etc). There's even a nice family connection as my grandfather (who would go on to be a gateman on the dry dock further down the road) learned to swim in the Bramley Docks which are the next ones along.
That's lovely. You've reminded me, I live near Tilbury Docks which they passed off as Venice for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Just along the road from there is the Tilbury Fort which was turned into the Tibetan prison for Batman Begins.
Stuffs everywhere!
They are some great examples because most local people don't give it a second thought but some location scout saw that and went "well there's our Tibetan prison.
Liverpool has done well as a location because we were rather ignored for decades so the Victorian dock complex was left untouched, where, elsewhere, they'd have just been demolished and some soulless glass and concrete apartment blocks would have been built all over it.