You ever try to find a location in a movie or TV show?
I am currently re-watching the first season of The Rookie and one episode ends with the camera panning up to show downtown L.A. I decided to see if I could find it using Google Earth and discovered it is a street about half a mile from Dodgers Stadium. Anyone else ever do something like this?
From the show:
Google Earth:
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
June 04, 2021, 08:18 PM
PASig
Yes, driving to to my sister’s house in northern NJ, I get to her neighborhood and have this very weird sense of deja vu, even though I’ve never been there before as she had only moved there recently.
I started looking things up and it turns out that the house Doug & Carrie Heffernan lived at (the exterior shots) on The King of Queens was like 10 miles away.
June 04, 2021, 10:43 PM
radioman
I've been to Southfork ranch, if that counts.
Being a Dirty Harry fan, I visited about a dozen places in SF that appeared in the films.
I've also found most of the places that flash by in this video...
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June 05, 2021, 01:09 AM
kkina
I used to live a few blocks from this intersection shown during the famous chase scene in Bullitt:
I hit about 90% of the places in the Blues Brothers. Drove by the house in Uncle Buck. Friend of a friend works in the movie business (mostly props and scenes as in building them) and has the actual kitchen from the movie. He bought a retired Chicago Fire House and lot next door and uses it for his business. Renovated the 2nd floor as his living space, downstairs as his work area... Pretty cool crib! The house in Home Alone, a lot of places from Ferris Buelers Day Off, 16 Candles and Breakfast Club, Thief (with James Caan), Contagin used the National Guard Armory on Cottage Grove by University of Chicago, the movie The Break Up (Vince Vaughn & Jennifer Aniston) was filmed inside the armory as well. been to a lot of the places in The Fugitive (hell, a lot of the extras in that movie are actual Chicago Cops, and I either worked with or knew them), Risky Business, Batman, there's a long story on how I met Johnny Depp during the filming of Public Enemies (odd fella, but pretty cool at the time), Christain Bale seemed pretty down to earth as well. The Road to Perdition was filmed down the block from the 005th Dist when I worked there. Got into a little trouble when I went flying through the set in my squad car to an "Officer needs assist" call, but that shit got straightened out pretty quick. The Untouchables too.
But that's all local stuff for me.
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I've recognized not so famous places in movies. For example in The Town with Ben Affleck when they rob the armored truck the "bank" is actually a laundry mat on Salem Street.
The husband of couple we went to NOLA with a few weeks ago is a big 007 fan, I helped him find this intersection from Live and let die. It looked quite different, took us a minute to figure it out. I used this video to verify
We then stumbled into a museum and learned quite a bit about the "Second Line" leader of the Olympia Jazz band
June 05, 2021, 07:33 AM
BansheeOne
With all that's getting shot in Berlin ... I actually saw some of the production for the fifth season of "Homeland" on my way to work back then, and one location for "Counterpart" was on the street my local brother lives on.
Of course what irks you as a local is how productions play fast and lose with your city's geography, like Jason Bourne jumping into the Spree River at Friedrichstraße Station, then emerging on Kurfürstendamm two-and-a-half miles downstream and one inland the next shot. OTOH, "Berlin Station" made a notable effort to be faithful to this.
June 05, 2021, 08:34 AM
lyman
pre plandeminc, wife and I thought of going to the UK to visit 'Port Wenn' the fictional home of Doc Martin
it's actually Port Isaac
we watch a lot of UK TV shows, including several series that are down in a historical way with Ruth Goodman,
one is Edwardian Farm, set in a location in Cornwall that this not that far from Port Isaac,
meanwhile, here in the States, a lot of stuff has been filmed here in Central VA, a lot of Turn was filmed in a field about 20 minutes from where I am typing, numerous movies and documentaries filmed in Richmond and Petersburg,
my Mothers best friend was married to a guy that was a retired trucker, after he retired , he started driving as a contractor for a couple of production houses moving equipment and trailers from storage to sets/locations,
he used to keep us in the know as far as what was filming in this area
When in Venice I made sure to find the Hotel Danieli and Chiesa di San Barnaba, which you may recognize as the Library in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log.
June 05, 2021, 01:31 PM
Puckpilot78
I didn't try to find it, at my last job I got to stay at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, NM where they filmed some scenes in No Country for Old Men. Most famous being the staircase where Anton follows Carson up to his room. Fortunately I made it out alive.
Mongo only pawn in game of life...
June 05, 2021, 01:45 PM
cas
Sort of, in person. In '88 Spalding Gray released Terrors of Pleasure, a film/monologue mostly about a small cabin he bought in upstate New York. "The little house that cried", falling down, sinking... a subject that was very personal and near and dear to my heart (and still is today, only now the family cabin in upstate NY is far worse) I watched it many times, and became sort of obsessed. So on one of my fairly frequent trips at the time to the Gun Parts Corp/Numrich Arms in West Hurley, I decided to see if I could find it. This was '90-91? So for me pre-internet, pre-GPS. I had no actual address, no idea what it looked like (assuming the shots in the movie weren't of the actual cabin), just the vague directions he gave in the film and a road map. I found all the roads and landmarks he mentioned, but have no idea if I ever saw the cabin in question.
June 05, 2021, 01:48 PM
357fuzz
quote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG: I hit about 90% of the places in the Blues Brothers. Drove by the house in Uncle Buck. Friend of a friend works in the movie business (mostly props and scenes as in building them) and has the actual kitchen from the movie. He bought a retired Chicago Fire House and lot next door and uses it for his business. Renovated the 2nd floor as his living space, downstairs as his work area... Pretty cool crib! The house in Home Alone, a lot of places from Ferris Buelers Day Off, 16 Candles and Breakfast Club, Thief (with James Caan), Contagin used the National Guard Armory on Cottage Grove by University of Chicago, the movie The Break Up (Vince Vaughn & Jennifer Aniston) was filmed inside the armory as well. been to a lot of the places in The Fugitive (hell, a lot of the extras in that movie are actual Chicago Cops, and I either worked with or knew them), Risky Business, Batman, there's a long story on how I met Johnny Depp during the filming of Public Enemies (odd fella, but pretty cool at the time), Christain Bale seemed pretty down to earth as well. The Road to Perdition was filmed down the block from the 005th Dist when I worked there. Got into a little trouble when I went flying through the set in my squad car to an "Officer needs assist" call, but that shit got straightened out pretty quick. The Untouchables too.
But that's all local stuff for me.
Hey CPD. What about some of the Chicago spots in the movie “The Package”?
June 05, 2021, 01:55 PM
YooperSigs
Anatomy Of A Murder was filmed in the Yoop. Thunder Bay Inn, Mt. Shasta and the Lumberjack Tavern are still standing and visible on Google Earth. My main Google Earth fun these days is watching 50s (Highway Patrol) and 60s TV shows on MeTV and then looking for the locations.
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
June 05, 2021, 07:32 PM
cas
quote:
Originally posted by lyman: a lot of Turn was filmed in a field about 20 minutes from where I am typing,
A lot of Turn actually took place about 20 minutes from where I'm typing.
June 05, 2021, 08:18 PM
tankeryanker
I like to look up locations from the film "It's a mad, mad, mad, world" made in 1963. So much has changed but a lot of the desert shots look the same. If I ever get to California I would like to drive the 200 mile route that the film covered.
I was surprised to discover that Brody’s house in the first few seasons of Homeland was filmed in Charlotte North Carolina. I have family there but have not driven by the house yet.
Carrie’s lake house scenes were filmed at Lake Norman near Mooresville. I’ve been boating on that lake many times but I have not found the house they filmed it at yet. I hope to figure out where it is and boat past it this summer.
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June 05, 2021, 09:25 PM
BOATTRASH1
Never went looking for any places in movies but very familiar with numerous locations from Jaws II scattered from Destin, FL through Navarre to Pensacola Beach.
I watched it many times, and became sort of obsessed. So on one of my fairly frequent trips at the time to the Gun Parts Corp/Numrich Arms in West Hurley, I decided to see if I could find it. 