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What would the movies be like if there were no Wisconsin?

Well, there’d be no “Citizen Kane” — Orson Welles was from Kenosha. The Avengers probably wouldn’t have beaten Loki without the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo is also from Kenosha). We wouldn’t have had a “Spider-Man” movie since 2007, since director Marc Webb is from Madison. (Then again, the first “Spider-Man” movie wouldn’t have even had a villain, since Willem Dafoe (“The Green Goblin”) is from Appleton.

But Wisconsin has also played an important role in the dialogue of movies. Whenever a screenwriter has needed to make a reference to small-town America, or a generic Midwest joke, they tend to reach for Wisconsin. Watch movies, and you’ll see a lot of references to Milwaukee, Sheboygan and Madison.

With that in mind, a UW-Madison graduate named Collin Brantmeyer uploaded a seven-and-a-half-minute “supercut” to YouTube made up of clips of movie references to Wisconsin and Wisconsin cities. Brantmeyer, who now works in Hollywood as a production assistant on movies like “Sharknado,” found an impressive array of references.