Schools in Film - Page 3

#1 07-10-2003, 01:49 AM

"We've Never Been Licked" a movie about an A&M cadet going off to WWII was filmed at A&M, way back around the time of the war.

Lots of the OLD campus and quad are shown. The first weekend after Corps Fish Orientation Week, all the fish are taken to Rudder Theater to watch it.

Also, not A&M, but in the opening credits sequence of "A Few Good Men" the precision rifle drill was performed by the Association of Ex-Fish Drill Team members.

Kitso
KS 361 cool points one of y'all gets if you've heard of "We've Never Been Licked"

White_Chocolate · #2 07-10-2003, 10:47 AM

Whose school was in '10 Things I Hate About You'?

That school was the most beautiful school I've ever seen. I would have died if my parents hadn't let me go there.

AOII_LB93 · #3 07-10-2003, 10:23 PM

Well my H.S. was in the movie American Beauty.

Buffy/90210 were filmed at Torrance HS, one of the rival school.

And a random car commercial was filmed at CSULB...if you see a commercial with a big blue pyramid, that is the BEACH!

Taualumna · #4 12-09-2003, 01:38 PM

Let's revive this:

Since someone already mentioned the University of Toronto, let me mention a few movies/tv shows filmed at my high school, BSS (Bishop Strachan School)

I know of the following:

"Soul Food" (the tv version) had a few scened filmed at BSS
the tv movie "JFK: Reckless Youth" also filmed bits at BSS (the chapel, I think) There may be more

At the boys' school next door, UCC (Upper Canada College), I do know that "The Ref" was filmed there, as was "Searching for Bobby Fisher" (a few scenes were filmed at U of T as well)

MareImbrium · #5 12-10-2003, 08:39 PM

American Beauty was filmed at my high school.

wrigley · #6 12-10-2003, 09:05 PM

The Breakfeast Club was filmed at my brother's high school.. Maine North H.S.,

angelic1 · #7 12-11-2003, 01:09 AM

i dont think anything has been filmed at virginia tech that was really a big time movie..

though dirty dancing was filmed really close by at mountain lake..

in my hometown there have been a bunch of movies filmed though.. its pretty neat to see them transform things you see everyday

G8Ralphaxi · #8 12-11-2003, 04:42 AM

That scene from Parenthood, where Steve Martin dreams about his son shooting people from the tower - that tower is the Century Tower, one of the University of Florida's landmarks. The people at whom the kid is shooting were all UF students.

If anyone cares, the rest of Parenthood was filmed in Orlando, around my parent's neighborhood. The family's house is in the College Park neighborhood only 10 minutes away from where I grew up. And the Publix grocery store is *my* Publix.

That's the scene where the daughter and her boyfriend go to pick up the pictures but end up getting her parents's photos and realize that oops! Dad got the naked ones! That little photo booth was just constructed for the movie - there never was one there. I know most of the the Little League kids - the movie donated money to the College Park Little League and a bunch of the guys I went to middle and high school with are all over that movie.

Also, at the beginning of Just Cause, when Sean Connery is lecturing at "Harvard", he's actually at UF, in the University Memorial Auditorium, which is this beautiful, gothic looking building. Seems like a lot of movies starring Harvard actually use "stunt double" colleges, hmm? The real thing must charge too much!

TigerLilly · #9 12-11-2003, 09:04 AM

Not actually at University of Kentucky, but they filmed "Seabiscuit" at a racetrack in the same city (Lexington). A bunch of my friends went and played extras in the racetrack scenes, and you can even recognize some of them in the movie. A PSP brother of mine had an actual part, but it was really small and it got cut and didn't make it into the movie.