Reading Response #3

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By John Berendt

           

            In the second half of chapter 1 I read about how Williams talks with his friend Mike Douglas a friend of his. They looked out upon Monterey Square on of Williams’s favorite squares in all of Savannah. “In my option, it’s the most beautiful of all the squares in Savannah.”

William and Douglas talked about how abused Monterey Square was when film crews came into town to shoot a scene in the square. And even after they leave they don’t clean up and Savannah doesn’t get any credit or recognition. The people of Savannah get upset by the fact that no one  really cares about their town or the people in it but the people who have lived there for a while.

 “But it really isn’t so wonderful at all. The moviemakers pay local extras the minimum wage, and Savannah doesn’t get publicity after all, because the audience usually haven’t the vaguest idea where the movies have been shot.” (Pg: 13)

 

I chose that quote because it really does shows how much disrespect the film crews have for Monterey Square, and for the people that are willing to take time out of their lives to help be extras in their movies. That picture is of Monterey Square today. I think that it is really cool that it is a real place and the author placed real events into the book.  I chose the picture below because it shows a fountain that got replaced that they talk about in the story, the film makers brought in truckloads of dirt to make that land flat in the square to make it the “perfect” scene