Line #21 UsefulNotes/Miami


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[-Sun! Sand! Pastels! Ahh, it's good to be home-].]]
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4	->''Party in the city where the heat is on,''
5	->''All night, on the beach 'til the break of dawn;''
6	->''Welcome to Miami,''
7	->''¡Bienvenido a Miami!''
8	-->-- "Welcome to Miami", by '''Creator/WillSmith'''
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10	You may wonder why we're quoting a Creator/WillSmith song. One, it's a song that one associates with the city (''Series/CSIMiami'' itself used it once). Two, it sums the bilingualism of the city pretty nicely. Miami is the most Latin city in the U.S.- with 66% plus of the residents speaking Spanish as their first language. 34% of the city's population are of [[UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} Cuban]] descent; there are more Cubans living in Miami-Dade County than in any city except Havana.[[note]]The City of Miami is artificially small, and not a fair comparison, as the Miami urban area extends well beyond city limits. See more below.[[/note]]
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12	Before we go on, we should mention that although there is in fact a city in Florida law called the City of Miami, whenever people talk about "Miami", they're really talking about Miami-Dade County. This is because the City of Miami, for various historical and legal reasons, has had limited room to expand its borders, and is therefore very small geographically--35.68 square miles of land (for comparison, UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, which has about 200,000 more people, has about 20 more square miles of land). On the other hand, none of this has stopped actual construction of city-like development outside the city's official borders, and as such Miami-Dade County consists of two things: areas that are basically city, and swamp. Nobody lives in the swamp, or goes there, or cares about it (except for alligators, environmentalists, criminals, and madmen); whenever you talk about Miami-Dade, you're talking about the urban area where everyone lives.
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14	Miami is felt to be an intrinsically cool city - Creator/{{MTV}} loves the place, it's associated with the whole US Spring Break tradition and there are number of TV shows set there. Behind the camera, Miami is a major US media production center, especially for Spanish-language media, and is also widely known for music. Not to mention this is where Creator/DaveBarry lives, which ''instantly'' ups the cool level a bit.
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16	The city also has a darker underbelly, ''especially'' in the 1980s, where works like ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' and the hit '80s TV show ''Series/MiamiVice'' were based off the major cocaine problem the city was dealing with at the time. The documentary ''Film/CocaineCowboys'' covers the Miami drug war extensively. Today, the city is a common location for ''Series/TheFirst48''. OnlyInFlorida, indeed.
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18	As far as sports are concerned, Miami's on a shorter end of the stick - the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Marlins]] only made the playoffs four times in their comparatively brief existence (but won the World Series the first two times), and the Miami Dolphins last won a Super Bowl in ''1973'' (though they are one of few repeat champions, having won in 1972 beforehand, where they put up the only undefeated season in NFL history). The [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Miami Heat]] are their go-to powerhouse, having won three championships in their history, including two in a row in 2012 and 2013. [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague It feels like we're forgetting someone...]] ah, right. [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball The University of Miami Hurricanes]] [[BaitAndSwitch were also one of college football's premier dynasties in the 1980s.]][[note]]Yes, there ''is'' an NHL team in the Miami metropolitan area, the Florida Panthers. They actually made the Stanley Cup Finals in just their third year of existence, but had a 26-year drought of winning anything after that, in a league where over 50% of teams make the playoffs. [[HopeSpot In 2022 they actually won the President's Trophy for best regular-season record and finally got out of the first round...]] only to be immediately crushed by the juggernaut cross-state Tampa Bay Lightning. In 2023 they made it back to the Finals... only to be crushed in five games by Vegas. And they don't play in the city of Miami or even in Miami-Dade County; they play in Sunrise, in Broward County (which contains Fort Lauderdale) directly to the north.[[/note]] Most recently, the area added a UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueSoccer team in 2020, Inter Miami CF. While Inter is planning to build a new stadium in Miami-Dade, it's playing in Fort Lauderdale for now.
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20	It should be noted that there is contention between Miami-Dade County and the rest of Florida, springing mainly from the Miami attitude that they are the only part of Florida worth a tinker's damn.
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22	[[DrivesLikeCrazy Also known for having some of the worst drivers in the nation. You DO NOT want to be on the road during rush hour]].
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24	!!Miami in fiction:
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26	[[AC:Films -- Live Action]]
27	* ''Film/BadBoys1995'' and [[Film/BadBoysII its]] [[Film/BadBoysForLife sequels]].
28	* ''Film/FairGame1995''
29	* ''Film/InvasionUSA1985''
30	* ''Film/IronMan3'': Air Force One is destroyed by the Mandarin's forces above Miami, causing all the President's staffers to be sucked right out. Luckily, Tony Stark arrives in time to save them from falling to their deaths and places them in strait the divides Miami from Miami Beach.
31	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
32	** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': Bond (Creator/SeanConnery) has a stay at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, as well as a card game against Auric Goldfinger and the [[invoked]]SignatureScene of Jill Masterson being killed and painted in gold.
33	** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': The FinalBattle takes place underwater in the ocean off Miami as SPECTRE lieutenant Emilio Largo tries to smuggle a nuclear bomb to destroy the city.
34	* ''Film/MiamiVice'', of course.
35	* ''Film/Moonlight2016''
36	* ''Film/Scarface1983''
37	* ''Film/Transporter2''
38	* ''Film/TrueLies'': The climax of the film takes place in the Florida Keys and Miami.
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40	[[AC:Literature]]
41	* The "Michael Shayne" series of detective novels, starting with ''Design for Death'' in 1939 and continuing for nearly 40 years. The series, and particularly the early novels like ''Literature/ThePrivatePracticeOfMichaelShayne'', paint a vivid picture of Miami's criminal underworld in World War II and the early post-war era.
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43	[[AC:Television -- Live Action]]
44	* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'', ''Series/CSIMiami'', ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' and ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'' - All five of the shows took place in Miami, but were actually filmed in Los Angeles.
45	* ''Series/BurnNotice'' - Shot in Miami and environs; the permanent set is in Coconut Grove[[note]]The demolition of said set has resulted in frequent location shooting for the show's final season[[/note]].
46	* ''Series/MagicCity'' - Shot in Miami and set in 1959.
47	* ''Series/MiamiVice'' - [[CaptainObvious duh.]]
48	* ''Series/{{Narcos}}'' - deals about the Miami drug problem during the 1980s and its connection with Colombian drug cartels.
49	* In the late 90s/early 2000s, Barry Diller (founder of Creator/{{Fox}}) decided to replicate the format pioneered by Creator/{{Citytv}} in Toronto, by way of the over-the-air TV affiliates of the Home Shopping Network, which he owned at the time (along with the Creator/USANetwork). The result was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sO7P1wAMPQ WAMI "Whammy" 69]], which only lasted until 2001, when Diller decided to sell out and sold the USA Broadcasting stations to Univision (which used the stations as the nucleus for secondary network Telefutura/[=UniMas=]). It's mostly remembered as a place where [[Series/Tosh0 Daniel Tosh]] got his start.
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51	[[AC:Music]]
52	* Miami is either an area of glitz and glamour, a seedy inner city- or both. It is home to the Ultra Music Festival, an annual EDM music festival held every March.
53	* There's a surprisingly large amount of rappers and hip-hop artists from Miami (although it's not necessarily to same level as cities like Atlanta, Chicago and especially New York City). This includes acts such as {{Music/Pitbull}}, Trina, Music/TwoLiveCrew (and their most well known member Uncle Luke), Music/CityGirls, and Music/RickRoss, among others. There are also several rappers from the Fort Lauderdale area, such as Music/XXXTentacion and Kodak Black.
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55	[[AC:Video Games]]
56	* ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline'': Set in PresentDay and described as ''Miami Vice'' meets Battlefield''.
57	* [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice]] [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories City]] in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series is [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed basically Miami and the Florida Keys with the]] {{serial numbers filed off}}.
58	* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'': Video game sequel of the film with similar elements to GTA Vice City.
59	* ''VideoGame/TotalVice'': Has a level set in Miami.
60	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Kevin Ryman's epilogue in ''File #2'' has him talking on the phone about getting a new job in Miami before riding off into the horizon.
61	* ''VideoGame/MiamiShark'' has you play as a shark devouring people/animals and destroying stuff in Miami. The game had a number of follow-ups themed around other cities or specific time periods.
62	* Quite obviously, ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and its sequel, ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', though the story in the latter also moves beyond Miami at times.
63	* ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' has a mission set at a fictional race circuit in Miami where you assassinates an arms dealer and his racer daughter.
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65	[[AC:Web Original]]
66	* ''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'': [[https://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Miami_(1983%3A_Doomsday) Miami and the metropolitan area]] is destroyed by Soviet nuclear missiles. The damage extends to Fort Lauderdale to the north and Key West to the south.
67	* ''Literature/ProtectAndSurviveATimeline'' has a spin-off called ''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/protect-survive-miami-end-of-watch.417403/ Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch]]'' which details a detective and his partner taking down drug lords in Miami in the days leading to the exchange. One user has commented that is basically ''Series/{{Narcos}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' meets ''Film/TheDayAfter'' or ''Film/{{Threads}}''.

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