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Anyone here familiar with Los Angeles..?

posted 20 years ago by DreTam2000
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I ask because there's a scene in the movie when Ray and Kurt are standing on top of a hill, and they can see the entire city from the hill. And Ray makes a commment about how he used to patrol those hills or something. It's the same scene in which he pulls a gun out on Michael and then hops in his patrol car and speeds away.

Does anyone know what part of L.A. that is? Or what streets it's by or what side of town..? If any of you recognized it, I would like to know where that was..

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] tkecornellboss 20 years ago

I was born/raised in LA (currently live on the east coast) and my best guess would be Griffith Park area (los feliz?). I've always wondered where those spots are located in any Los Angeles based movie. However, it might just be a spot that is cordoned off and allowed only for the purposes of film-making. Another potential spot could be Dodger Stadium hills.

[–] DreTam2000 20 years ago

...I appreciate your response. I'll try to check those locations out. I've only been in California for a few years now for school. But I like high-up-on-the-hill-looking locations like that. The scenery is dope. So thanks.

Anyone else got any other suggestions as to where it might be..?

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] tommythegun 15 years ago

I could tell you almost exactly where this is. It's in the Hollywood Hills above Franklin Avenue, near Highland Avenue, near to the Hollywood Bowl. At the opening of this scene, you can see the Cineramadome a short ways off, which is at Sunset and Vine, and the Holiday Inn on Highland down below. Downtown LA is way off in the distance behind the dome, to the south and east. My guess is that it's near the Magic Castle and Yamashiro restaurant above Franklin.

[–] DreTam2000 15 years ago

Thankyou for that, man. As you can tell by the dates on here, I made this thread some years ago. Some things are worth waiting for though.

Now all I have to do is...

1) Find a way to follow those directions to a T (I'm pretty familiar with the geography of LA, although your specifications there still propose a challenge)..

2) Meet a female who will venture to that spot with me, and have her make love to me in my car while we both enjoy the high hill's marvelous view..

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] Lincbond442 15 years ago

Sounds good. Just watch out for Ray Liotta lurking in the shadows! Last I saw him, he was screwing some revolting youth's mom in Northern California.

[–] DreTam2000 15 years ago

There's an identical high hill scene in Point Break towards the beginning when Gary Busy's character is arguing with Special Agent Utah. It immediately made me think of this location.

Also in the movie Colors I believe there is a similar location as well. All LA-based films..

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] tommythegun 15 years ago

Given the considerable number of mountains in Los Angeles County surrounded by flat, urbanized coastal plain, there's a lot of places you could take a shot like that.

[–] DreTam2000 15 years ago

...good-ol' geography..

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[–] bevcinema 14 years ago

Tommythegun, you're right about the location.....The specific point in the Hollywood/Franklin area is Runyon Canyon and the actual spot they shot the scene on was the remains of Errol Flynn's old mansion.

The house that Kurt Russell and Madeleine lived in was in Hancock Park, a beautiful, affluent area between Hollywood and downtown LA. They used an actual house to shoot the pool and the exterior scenes, but the interior of the house was a soundstage built on the backlot of 20th Century Fox,