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Topic: What Movies Have Been Filmed In Your Town?
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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 03, 2009 11:46 AM
There's a great little diner in Northport named “Tim’s” where the three of us have breakfast a couple of Saturdays a month. When Northport Village was remade into "Greenleaf Indiana" for the film "In and Out", "our" diner was renamed "Darlene's" and the interior was used for the scene where Tom Selleck's character first meets Kevin Kline's.
Over on the other side of Northport Harbor the William K. Vanderbilt mansion in Centerport is a county museum. In "Crocodile Dundee II" it was used as the mansion the bad guy was holding Sue hostage in. When Mick goes to rescue her he climbs the trees to get over the wall on Little Neck Road. Every time we drive up to the beach we go right past, and we go to the museum and planetarium once or twice a year too.
Amityville and the real "Amityville Horror House" are on our south shore about 15 miles away. The new owners tried to disguise it a little (changed the windows and the street number), but it still sees a lot of curious traffic, especially around Halloween. Sad to say the whole phenomenon started with real murders in that house, which are all too often forgotten in the hype over the fictional horror movie.
Oh!, a lot of Super-8 films have been made in my neighborhood: mostly by me!
[ July 03, 2009, 04:06 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]
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James N. Savage 3
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From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted July 03, 2009 02:16 PM
Well, I live (just outside of) Washington, D.C., and there are too many to list.
One stand-out though, is "The Exorcist". I go past this house at least once a month. And the LONG stairway next to it that leads from Prospect Street to M Street in Georgetown.
More recently,the opening scene from "State of Play", starring Russell Crowe, was filmed about a quarter of a mile from the exorcist house, under the Key Bridge in Georgetown. In that scene, the two Forensics officers that are processing the crime scene, are real Forensic technicians, and co-workers of mine. I guess the director was going for "authenticity" ![[Cool]](cool.gif) .
James.
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Claus Harding
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From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted July 03, 2009 03:05 PM
Another DCer here, so yes, quite a few over the years:
"No Way Out" with Kevin Costner holds a special (funny) place in the hearts of anyone who was here then. Costner is chased down into the "Georgetown Metro" station in the film.
This got two huge laughs at the screening I saw.
First, there is no such station because there was a lot of resident objections to it being built, so we all remembered that whole battle.
Secondly, because, once in the station, it looked nothing like DC's Metro (I can't recall which city's subway stood in for those scenes.) Creative license at its finest.....
Then there was the thriller which featured 'the department of precognition.' There were signs at the metro to that "department", much to the puzzlement of many locals going to work.
Considering that DC is the capitol of the US, it never ceases to amaze me how wrong Hollywood gets it every time. But I guess they just figure no one but 'us locals' will notice ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Claus.
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