Whenever I mention Miami to a tourist, the most common response I get is a quiet snigger followed by a Horatio reference. It is a little worrying that the ginger foot soldier of crime fighting has become the face of this city. With its crystal clear waters and sublime coastline, it is definitely a city more deserving of Robert Pattison’s square jaw – then again, year round sunshine doesn’t seem like something that he would be comfortable with.
Horatio, CSI Miami
The task of finding a face for Miami couldn’t have been an easy process. The cosmopolitan demography of the community makes it particularly difficult to pinpoint a set of features that would represent the whole. So, how is it that Horatio came to lead the weekly inserts of the CSI in Miami?
With a resume of B-grade cop films, we can safely say that David Caruso was not carried into the limelight on acting prowess. Looks also came into the equation, but a Google image search dispelled this notion quite rapidly. It must have been something else – something scandalous or sinister, perhaps?
My investigation continued, but simply led to a series of dead ends; I could find no explanation as to why Caruso was the face of Miami. I then thought back to a recent episode of CSI Miami and realized that Horatio was simply a sideshow to the real lead.
What really stands out in every episode of CSI is the landscape. Miami is not represented by the face of our favorite “daywalker” – it is represented by shots of Biscayne Bay boats and the gorgeous extras that feature in every episode. Miami doesn’t need a good-looking representative face, because the city is already sexy on its own.
What a silly train of thought, however, hard to deny! Whenever I think of a face of Miami I think of Will Smith (a throwback I know) singing “Welcome to Miami, Bienvenidos a Miami”