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I've been to locations featured in films, but not while they were filming unfortuantely. In the movie Vertigo, the main character lives on Lombard St in San Francisco and that's the street I stayed on during my recent visit to the city. The two main characters also walk past the Palace of Fine Arts on the same sidewalk I walked on, which was very cool too. Just to know Alfred Hitchcock stood where I did is a pretty amazing feeling...for me at least.
I've been to Washington DC and god knows how many films have been shot there, and Navy Seals was shot in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, so I see those locations everyday. I'd love to be an extra or something though. What a cool experience.
My sister lives in SoCal and every time I visit we try to find some location. Recent sites we visited are the houses in "Baby Jane" and "Six Feet Under".
I was an extra in a d-list film called Cyborg 3 - The Recycler. I was out of work at the time and one of my ex-husband's buddies had friends in the studios. We were contacted by phone by the casting director, and met out in the high desert near The Pinnacles. The casting director threw a football around with us on breaks and later on that evening, drove somewhere to get us all Chinese food.
Fast forward a few months later. The movie we were extras in is long forgotten. OJ Simpson is all over the news, suspected of killing his wife and another man. He had a guesthouse on his property, with a tenant named Kato Kaelin. We freaked out when we saw him on television: "Oh my God, we KNOW that guy!"
Kato Kaelin was the casting director on Cyborg 3. He called our house, played football with us during the day, ran and got the huge supply of Chinese food during the wee hours for the cast and crew.
I always wished we hadn't erased that message from him on our outdated message machine. That would have been fun to play for people, even today.
I just happened into the Casino in Las Vegas when Chevy Chase was filming the black jack scene for Vegas vacation, pretty cool. Also they filmed a scene from the movie with Bruce Willis, I think it was Simple Simon or started with that, in Sturgis and I was there during the bank robbery scene and when they fly the chopper in.
I've been to several filming locations, one I actually got to watch it being filmed. The movies were Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, it was made in the mid-late 70's. Part of it was filmed in Camp Verde, AZ. That was the one I got to watch being filmed. I also saw William Shatner get knocked down and jumped on by an extra, the extra was a kid, it wasn't supposed to happen. Shantner ended up being replaced by a stunt double.
The next one was Wild Horses filmed in and around Sheridan, WY with Kenney Rogers and Pam Dauber(sp?) parts were filmed in a bar that I go to on occasions. Also one of the scenes have them riding through what was once my front yard.
The movie River Wild with Kevin Bacon and Merrel Streep was filmed in and around Libby, MT. Some of the actors or film crew stayed in my DH's boss' house during filming. I've been to the waterfall many a time.
The movie Into The Homeland with Powers Boothe and Thomas C. Howell had a scene filmed at a little bar and resturant that was at one time just up the highway from me near the MT and WY state line.
There was one movie, I can't think of the name of it right off that was about I believe a huge volcano errupting. It was filmed sometime in the late 90's. Part of it was filmed in Wallace, ID. I can't remember who was even in it. But anyways I've been to Wallace quite a few times.
The last movie that I can remember being to parts of where it was filmed was A River Runs Through It with Robert Redford. Parts were filmed up around Bozeman, MT.
There was one other movie that was filmed again back in the mid-late 70's and it too had a scene where a bank was being robbed. That bank was also in Camp Verde, AZ. My family banked there all the time. They had too, because I think it was the only bank in town.
Also there was another movie filmed between Buffalo and Sheridan, WY back in the mid 80's. The one scene in the movie was filmed showing the main actors driving down the interstate. The road signs were changed to different town names which stayed that way until filming was over in that area. It took a couple of days. In the meantime it really confused the tourists as they thought they were completely lost when they saw the prop signs.
Oh, I also forgot about the Arches National Park in Utah. I know several movies have scenes that have been filmed around there like Vaction with Chevy Chase.
I know that, as I have been thinking about it, there are many more movies that I have been to their filming locations. You would be surpried at all of the movies that have scenes filmed in WY, MT, ND, SD, CO, AZ, ID, WA and UT. I have been to numerous places in these states mainly because I lived in them. I've even been to the area where the ridge is that Grizzly Adams walked out on at the beginning of every episode. (I know it's not a movie, but it was a very popular television show back in the 70's) It was my stomping ground/backyard for awhile when I was really young. That was up in Strawberry, AZ. which was a logging camp not to far out of Flagstaff, AZ.
I once stayed at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago. Part of the movie "The Fugitive" was filmed there (the one with Harrison Ford in it).
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