Back in 1978, when "Ice Castles" was released, the story told of a ice skater coming to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Midwest ice skating championships. Of course, the problem was the City of Five Seasons at the time, we didn't have the Five Seasons Center build yet.
There was no indoor ice venue for the City of Cedar Rapids in 1978, when "Ice Castles" was on the Big Screen. The only top notch ice in Cedar Rapids at the time was on Manhattan Lake in Ellis Park, off the Cedar River. It was clearly outdoors, unlike the film.
Thankfully, we have an indoor venue for ice today in our community. A convention center has never been built yet, but one is coming. It will be interesting to see how the City of Cedar Rapids is portrayed in the upcoming movie.
'Cedar Rapids’ movie debuts tonight at Sundance - The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS — First Sundance, then the nation, then who knows? The world?
Now, we have a movie called "Cedar Rapids" being released in 2011. Of course, the film was filmed in Ann Arbor, rather than Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Will the perceptions of Cedar Rapids be true to what reality of our community is? Or, will it be more on the level of "Ice Castles" and a misrepresentation of our community?
Both films are fictional. But, when they use a real community, shouldn't the storyline be at least factual, when it comes to assets of the community being portrayed has?
Hey, didn't "All the Right Moves" pick a fictional community known as "Ampipe" to base the story on? Why not pick a real town in PA, like Johnstown?
So, will the producers and writers of "Cedar Rapids" portray our community fair? Or, should they have picked their own Ampipe, like other movies?
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