Los Angeles Based Movies (houses, theater, live in)

[DontH8Me]

OK, my last one for today I promise - Memento - one of my top ten movies.

[katenik]

the player-- filled with great "hollywood insider" one-liners, although some of them would be pretty dated by now.

LA story-- i'm surprised no one else mentioned this one, as it played on just about every LA stereotype imaginable.

devil in a blue dress-- not really a good movie, but the period details of seldom-seen black LA in the post-war 40s were nicely done. great jazz soundtrack, too.

[Charles]

If you need a memory jog, check this out:

List of films set in Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[KnoxTown]

Training Day

[KnoxTown]

Originally Posted by Charles

If you need a memory jog, check this out:

List of films set in Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cheater!!! jk

[UB50]

Sunset Boulevard! That's one of my all-time favorites!!

[fastfilm]

-Another plug for katenik's L.A. Story (Vicious maitre d' sneers at hapless restaurant patron: With your income, sir, you can only order the duck.)
-Repo Man (too cool & too classic.)
-The Fast & The Furious (Vin Diesel one. Still very indicative of present day L.A.)
-The Trip (ooooooooh, '60's L.A. had pretty colors!)
-in fact any Roger Corman movie!
-any short by Charlie Chaplin once he moved to the U.S. My late grandfather watched them shoot at the beach piers...
-all the Laurel & Hardy and Little Rascals flicks shot on location all around my poor Lost Angeles of the '30's! So pretty then!
-and now for something completely different, a film shot at the house of yours truly, the straight to dvd masterpiece Chasing Destiny (Lauren Graham, Casper Van Dien, Roger Daltrey, Christopher Lloyd.) And when I write shot at our house, I mean it: over 70% of the film takes place at our domicile, indoors and out. They thought our 1912 home looked like a musician's house circa the 1990's, i.e., old and cluttered. And full of my cds and Lps.)

[windsurfingiskewl]

American History X and Falling down are both great movies but make LA look like a horrible place to live, especially american history x.

I've always thought
-2 days in the valley
-Poison Ivy
-Memento
-roger rabbit
-Pulp Fiction

all make LA look cool.

[OzzyRules]

"Willard" and it's sequel "Ben." Both from the 70's.


The house in the first movie was in an old "once fashionable neighborhood" in Los Angeles. According to the novel. I was always curious what part of Los Angeles they were referring to. (Not that I am familiar with the city). I assume it is an older neighborhood where rich people used to live (Wilshire?), but which has possibly gone downhill since then. And who knows how bad it is 30 years later.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by OzzyRules

"Willard" and it's sequel "Ben." Both from the 70's.


The house in the first movie was in an old "once fashionable neighborhood" in Los Angeles. According to the novel. I was always curious what part of Los Angeles they were referring to. (Not that I am familiar with the city). I assume it is an older neighborhood where rich people used to live (Wilshire?), but which has possibly gone downhill since then. And who knows how bad it is 30 years later.

The area around USC and Adams Boulevard, used to be one of the high rent districts in LA. USC sort of had the reputation of the rich kids school (I think it still does). Bankers and lawyers from downtown LA would make their homes in these neighborhoods. We're talking 90 years ago.

Not sure if this is the neighborhood you are writing about though...