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Post by hidden on Oct 1, 2003 8:32:01 GMT -5
Oh, actually I have found alot more similarities that suggest it is Alberta.
There is a Lake Louise, and a Hector, and a place called Jasper.
Also, there is a Valley that leads into the area where the the frozen waterfall is. It is north of Calgary.
And it is famous for its Bears, and mountain lions.
Plus, a whole lot of other stuff.
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Post by Arumi A. on Oct 11, 2003 0:41:54 GMT -5
i think Canada or new york
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Post by Melony K. Snicket on Dec 1, 2003 19:52:50 GMT -5
I have serious doubts to it being NY. I live in NY, and I really can't see the Baudelaires here.
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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 16, 2004 11:31:23 GMT -5
Perhaps Daniel Handler got his inspiration for some of the locations from Alberta, but I don't think that means that the setting of ASOUE is actually meant to BE Alberta. This is fiction, remember. I don't think the setting is meant to be anywhere real. Besides, Alberta lacks two things that are very important to the story: A very large city, and a briny beach. I think if anything all you can say is that the setting is INSPIRED by a combination of many different places: Calgary, New York, etc. By the way, www.quidditch.com//lemony%20snicket.htm has this to say about the origin of the carnival's name: "The Caligari Carnival: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), a great film from a variety of perspectives, most of them having to do with the German Expressionism that originated in the UFA Studios (this was the best link I could find in English) and how it influenced Orson Welles among other great directors. To modern video-addled minds the story has lost much of its shock value, and the plot is simply not great literature. It's the cinematography you want to look at: the visuals rich in jagged triangles and the camera work that puts you in a surreal landscape which is somewhere between a sleeping nightmare and a waking madness. Sidebar: Disney animated films do exactly the same thing: all the evil characters are jagged and angular, and all the good characters are round. It all originates from the visual style of this movement. By the way on the movie front, look up Freaks and Carny (which concerns what Sunny would call Karneez) , both of which have special meaning to this volume."
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