Duck and Cover

Tomorrow I'm taking my girlfriend and her mom to downtown New Haven to watch them film a chase scene. Supposedly Harrison Ford is gonna be there, I'll have to keep an eye out. The whole area around College and Temple Street (basically Yale) is transformed to somekinda 1950's hangout, specifically the Starbucks. It should be stupid, and really crowded and confusing because nobody is allowed to drive downtown for 8 hours. I'll post pics maybe.

Get off my lawn you whipper snappers!

Thats actually quite cool. The only thing I remember being filmed in my town is like some episode for a TV show, I think it for Don Johnson or something though I don't know why they would just be filming in San Francisco where the show took place. It was downtown at some restaurant.

All we ever get here are Farelly Brothers movies

Heh, Harrison is definitely in New Haven and will be riding a motorcycle through certain spots at Yale, a couple fields, and a black sedan full of bad guys following.

There must be thousands of people hanging out at the green. A new Woolworth's building, lots of fedora hats, it's kinda surreal.

Mad Max RW wrote:Tomorrow I'm taking my girlfriend and her mom to downtown New Haven to watch them film a chase scene. Supposedly Harrison Ford is gonna be there, I'll have to keep an eye out. The whole area around College and Temple Street (basically Yale) is transformed to somekinda 1950's hangout, specifically the Starbucks. It should be stupid, and really crowded and confusing because nobody is allowed to drive downtown for 8 hours. I'll post pics maybe.

Get off my lawn you whipper snappers!

wow, he really doesnt look half bad

He is way too old to be wearing his shirt like that. It just looks sad. Like a 40 year old mom that tries dressing like her daughter.

If you see Harrison Ford, give him my number and tell him my girlfriend is available to have his child. The "Coolest" movie stars I ever saw were Orlando Bloom and ugh I think Kirstin Dunst when they came to film "Elizabeth Town" in Elizabeth Town and I forgot to pack my suicide bomber vest to take them out.

That one movie with Sly Stallone was filmed in my hometown. A remake of some older movie. It was a few years back, I can't remember the name. Oooh! And the high school in 10 Things I Hate About You was in Tacoma as well.

Dogmeatlives wrote:He is way too old to be wearing his shirt like that. It just looks sad. Like a 40 year old mom that tries dressing like her daughter.

Maybe you should just stop projecting and being a pathetic fool?

Ford is awesome

Thor Kaufman wrote:

Dogmeatlives wrote:He is way too old to be wearing his shirt like that. It just looks sad. Like a 40 year old mom that tries dressing like her daughter.

Maybe you should just stop projecting and being a pathetic fool?

Ford is awesome

qfe

Naked_Lunch wrote:All we ever get here are Farelly Brothers movies

Providence?
Cheer up, I hear Buddy Cianci's out of prison again.

jetbaby wrote:That one movie with Sly Stallone was filmed in my hometown. A remake of some older movie. It was a few years back, I can't remember the name. Oooh! And the high school in 10 Things I Hate About You was in Tacoma as well.

Was it Get Carter? Now that was a bad movie.

Yeah, that one. Never saw it. Just remember it being filmed.

Get Carter was worth watching just for that awesome punch Stallone gives to some guard at a party.

They were filming The strange case of Benjamin Button just a corner from my workplace, 2 weeks ago. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett

They also filmed some part of The Aviator, at my workplace

Are there any Nazis in the movie? It just ain't an Indy movie if there are no Nazis about.

Also, you should definitely prepare yourself to streak the set during shooting.

If you see Sean Connery, tell him that YTMND is the best website he has ever made...

I heard he won't be in the movie.

They filmed that crappy Ghost Rider movie in melbourne. Nothing breaks atmosphere like a whole bunch of americans talking about their city when its fucking melbourne.

They filmed that scene where the blackhawk goes down in "Black Hawk Down" just above my house. No permission slips, nothing. Totally took me by surprise.

I spent practically the whole day downtown hanging out and watching them film this thing. What I saw was exactly what I expected. Harrison Ford with an older looking professor guy with big gray hair on his back riding down the street via old motorcycle. At least 3 stunt doubles that looked sorta like him which really creeped me out. One was a double for the motorcycle chase scene, and 2 others wearing jumpsuits with "MARSHAL" written on the back, clearly wearing the Indy outfit underneath. For some reason the stunt double driver was wearing a black leather jacket and Indiana Jones wearing the brown one. There were lots of extras dressed up in 1950s garb. Nicely combed hair, long dresses, knee socks, very red lip stick. The best part was seeing all the awesome cars in downtown New Haven. You name it it was probably there. Even some extremely rare stuff.

Security was everywhere trying to keep people back and constantly warning about taking pictures. But they were cool for the most part. We took a bunch anyway, and recorded the entire chase scene. I got to stand next to the bad guy's car and take pics. Most of the time when they weren't filming, Indy's trademark leather jacket was sealed in a clear plastic dealy and passed around for some reason. You could get really close to filming depending on where the cameras were pointing. On the green they had us back 200 feet from the road, practically the middle of the park. Down a certain closed street we got a few yards away.

I think the bike was a vintage Indian. Sometime in the early afternoon the stunt driver got into an accident on the first take, which then caused another accident. He took a wrong turn towards a busy open street and wiped out before colliding with another vehicle. He was taken to the hospital but seemed ok.

Spielberg was not there. Someone else was directing, I have no idea who it was.

Today or tomorrow they're filming a scene where the sedan crashes through a metal gate. Yesterday it was replaced with a very real looking balsa wood one.

The 1950s stores, signs, lamp posts, etc., are all very cool. Construction was constantly going on, only pausing for when they were filming. The town green is surrounded by huge trucks, trailers, and one large black Mercedes stretch limo I can only assume was for Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart.