UCLA in famous movies
Hey! What's up everybody? This is Eric Kim, your one and truly official photographer for UCLA Undergraduate Admissions. I hope you all had a fantastic winter break, because I know I did. I ended up watching a ton of movies, and one of those movies happened to be How High with Redman and Method Man. During the movie, when Redman and Method Man first step foot on the "Harvard campus," I gasped because I realized that the movie was filmed on the UCLA campus with Royce Hall and Powell Library in the background.
Thinking that this was an incredible discovery that nobody knew about, I frantically searched the Web for other movies that were filmed at UCLA. To my surprise there is a long list of movies that have been filmed at UCLA. Some notable movies are: The Nutty Professor (I and II), American Pie 2, Legally Blonde, Old School, How High, Minority Report, and Van Wilder. Some notable television shows include: 24, Alias, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The beautiful architecture and scenery of UCLA's North Campus make it virtually indistinguishable from most Ivy-league campuses. Additionally, it is so convenient for many of the film and television production companies to film in West Los Angeles.
Not only are many movies and tv shows filmed on the UCLA campus, many movie premieres are held in Westwood, the neighborhood surrounding UCLA.
As the Internet saying goes: "Pics or it didn't happen." So on with the photos!
Janet Jackson and Eddie Murphy under Royce Hall in The Nutty Professor.
Mena Suvari and Chris Klein in front of Kerckhoff in American Pie 2.
Reese Witherspoon sitting on the lawn in front of Kerckhoff in Legally Blonde.
Will Ferrell and other characters walking down Jans Steps in the movie Old School.
The Westwood Village movie theater transformed into Marge and Homer's heads for Simpsons the Movie premiere.
Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in front of the UCLA store.
Terminator 3 premiere at Westwood theater with a gigantic image of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the roof.
Another awesome post Eric! It's fun to be watching a movie and recognize a place on campus. Another fun trivia fact: UCLA has appeared in movies as Harvard, University of Michigan, and many fictional universities, but not as itself!
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Posted by: John | July 21, 2008 at 08:29 AM
Haha, thats so good. You can never quite look at a place the same way after its been in the movies
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Hey nice post there. I like the "The Westwood Village movie theater transformed into Marge and Homer's heads for Simpsons the Movie premiere. "
Nice creative one, but I hate the heads in simpsons they are very unreal.
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