A Lengthy Day Finding The LA LA LAND (2016) Filming Locations - Why I Moved To Hollywood California
La La Land (2016) Filming Locations
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welcome everyone
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out of the Wu here as the recording of
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This is February 1st what day of the
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week is it Wednesday Wednesday
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February 1st 2023 Daphne is here and we
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are doing something I've wanted to do
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for quite a while the filming locations
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of La La Land yeah I'm so excited I love
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this movie the amazing thing is it came
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out in 2016 it's been seven years
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already does it feel like it's been that
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long where has the time gone oh my
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goodness and it's kind of interesting
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I'll talk about the other course of the
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day but this this movie is part of the
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reason I lived in Orange County for a
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while was part of the reason I moved to
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Hollywood Boulevard back in 2017. after
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you know I'll explain it as the course
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of the day but we're gonna film
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basically a lot of the spots I'm gonna
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say probably 75 80 of all the spots for
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the movie All Around SoCal not in order
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a continuity of the film just in order
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so we could do it all in one day yeah
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definitely I'm so excited to see all the
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places because as you know and I know
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getting around SoCal on a weekday with
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traffic kind of time consuming yeah and
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all the places are so spread out too
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very very strong but we're gonna do it
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I'm inviting you to join me and Daphne
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for La La Land
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I have brought a clipboard full of a lot
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of screen grabs here
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and where we were just standing at the
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Retro Dairy Mart is right across from
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the Van Beek
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where Ryan Gosling would sit and look
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across and dream of the future jazz club
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that he was going to open which is right
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here across the road we'll walk over
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there in a moment there was one scene
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where
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there's like a little Montage scene
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where him and Mia go over there and they
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destroy the signage on the van big so
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we'll go over there and show that in a
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minute but just to show the coordinate
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uh the the area it says on the corner of
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Magnolia and Clybourn Ave the Retro
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Dairy Mart still has the same signage
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you said this place has been closed for
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a while right yeah I think for the
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pandemic or right around that time so
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it's been a few years since it's been
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shut
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it'd be kind of nice if it was open
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because we get a little coffee here yeah
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and pretend we were Sebastian sitting
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here drinking the coffee looking across
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at the band beak
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um
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and it was a really neat mural of I
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think it was like an orange
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an Orange Grove but here he is pulling
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in his kind of classic car Alert in
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front of the drive-through of the Retro
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Dairy and you can see even the distance
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everything off the side the building
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over there with the garages and all that
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looked the same and the signage that
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they built on
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or they took down
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a little overhang here and built a
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different one but he was basically just
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sitting kind of right over here at a
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table
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and the mural you were referring to was
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right here where it says free parking or
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free delivery parking in rear now a
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sushi place
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has the California mural here and then
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the oranges there
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I would imagine they probably just
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painted that on for the film
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and all the times that you've lived in
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in La have you ever do you remember that
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looking like this here
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um now I think that they filmed it
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before I moved on the side of the Hill
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okay
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now it's just a brown wall one more
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little view here
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of what it looks like look there was
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more palm trees out front too so you can
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see over there a couple of the palm
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trees have been removed
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since that time frame you see our
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shadows today it's been kind of overcast
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and cloudy recently but today well now
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we can't see our shadows but now we're
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gonna go back into which is kind of fun
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because it's like you know the one of
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the main songs is another day of sun
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approaching the Van Beek Now spoiler
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alert he never did put his jazz club in
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this location where he ended up opening
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it sebs it's at a different spot later
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in the film we'll go by there as well
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address is 4403
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oh there it goes Tapas and tunes
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this is right before he took the top of
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that signage and smashed it right there
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I really like the front of this place
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though with the
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the designs down there and the doors are
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kind of very unique they still look
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exactly the same as they did one thing
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about that scene you'll notice over our
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shoulder is a little security camera
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back there
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so someone did come over here and try to
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smash one of the signs
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he could have ended up you know getting
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a getting a fine of some sort of in
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doing some jail time yeah nothing to
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twisting the movie could have
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considerably changed the course of the
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film it's also kind of unique that this
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is the same signage a lot of times
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they'll change a building but they this
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is all the same signage and everything
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including this over here
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so seven years later well gosh maybe
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eight years they probably filmed it in
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15 if it came out in 16 right yeah they
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probably
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film years or so it's just still sitting
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here so really there's some screen used
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items here
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it's just still around
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tables are all gone now where he was
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sitting kind of get that perspective he
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was right over here
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he would go out of his way he says in
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the film he'd go out of his way to sit
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here and drink coffee just so we could
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dream about one day owning that place
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it's also a montage scene and in that
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Montage scene they show a lot of famous
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La spots I'll show a couple of as we go
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along but one of them here Patty's is
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right
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over there
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so they use that in the Montage they
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didn't film anything inside but
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that's the sign we've eaten there lots
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of times
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we are now over on the 101 freeway
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overlooking
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Hollywood in the distance which you can
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see in a lot of those montage and
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driving scenes downtown L.A off in the
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distance and this is the very Hill the
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very incline where Mia gets her car
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towed
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that's just the top of this hill looking
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down at the Hollywood Tower down there
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the interesting thing is these the angle
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looking back which is looking at the tow
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away Zone sign is not up here
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movie Magic but this angle here is not
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at the top of the hill it looks
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completely different
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than this this could be anywhere because
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all the locations are so spread out
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find any info or match up any street
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signs
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she walks down this hill past the
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Hollywood Tower
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down Vine Street and into Hollywood
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proper I was kind of hoping to match up
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this exact screen used sign
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but to no avail
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fact I know it's a different area
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because here it is ten to six
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and it was nine to six on the other one
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so it's a mystery this is where she's
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standing directly in the middle of the
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street she has her her hands on her hips
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here because she knows she has to walk
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down the Steep Hill
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and that is the incline looking this way
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he thought about maybe standing in the
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road
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framing that up but might not be the
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smartest idea as she goes down the hill
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you see the Castle Argyle located on the
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corner of Franklin and Argyle and also
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she walks down the hill
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is this moment and it's actually in
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continuity and is able to be walked in
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real time he turned here on to Argyle
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and right over there is the mural she
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walks past
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as shown here this mural's been here for
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quite a while
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see the cars even the electrical box is
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still over there
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and everything
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you don't really see a top portion but
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you see
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I Love Lucy up top here you can't really
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see it but in reality it's still there
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as shown right there
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still looks exactly the same all these
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years later I mean it's only been what
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seven eight years but yeah
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has it been tagged up or spray painted
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over if it has
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they've fixed it up to look like it does
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it looked like it does now now over to
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the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox next
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to Playmate shoes is this very famous
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mural for La it's like a theater and it
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has a lot of the little Hollywood
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players Famous folk through time sitting
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watching their own films or sitting
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watching Hollywood films and this was
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the exterior of liptons not the interior
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just the exteriors where Sebastian gets
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the job and also gets fired
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for playing the wrong songs on the piano
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he wanted to play jazz and the owner of
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liptas wanted him to play Christmas
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songs which he didn't want to play I
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Feel Like That was not really showing
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his talents but when Mia would walk past
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this mural right over here what is now
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the Muse lifestyle group was the front
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entrance of lipton's they have this
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photo as she finished walking by she
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hears the music she hears him playing
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the piano in there and she walks in the
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door still has those very unique kind of
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blocks there we'll walk across the
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street to kind of look at it you can
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almost see that pole still there and
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everything I think the door's still the
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same too I have a close-up
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and you're hearing some music coming
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inside the door
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right there
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even though they didn't film in there
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she does open the door she grabs the
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handle and opens that door but look at
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this this has been kind of busted out
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here
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so you just walk the same pathway as Mia
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did
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going in
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to hear Sebastian playing the piano for
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the first time
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you just there you go
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obviously as a movie none of them are
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busted out and they also have this kind
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of unique neon red red orangish Neon
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and placed on the exterior of the bricks
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as well
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so if you open in this open this door it
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does not lead to the Interiors in fact
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it jumps over to right across from
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Warner Brothers which we're gonna go
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a little bit later
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I always think what if she walked by
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here and didn't hear the piano
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yeah what if they would have got her and
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then what if she hurt what if she didn't
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hear the piano but she did hear the
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piano but what if later
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she wouldn't they would have got caught
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for busting the sign
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over at the the jazz place
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I don't know just a lot of what
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they would have met at the pool oh
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that's right they would have met at the
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pool party
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she would have still requested Iraq what
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if she still would have requested Iran I
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don't know it's a lot of what ifs all
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right we got to get this for posterity
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front of the mural the walking mural
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there
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this thing has been here for a long time
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this mural in fact one time it was kind
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of graffitied and tagged over in the
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city every time that happens I don't
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know if the city someone will come in
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and repaint it and touch it up because
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it's a historic mural not just because
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of La La Land but just in general a lot
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of famous faces on here
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all right let's move on to the next spot
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but we're in the neighborhood
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swinging by the Chinese Theater where
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there are the La La Land hand prints
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that were put here a few years ago kind
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of up towards the corner like kind of
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over there in the in a little corner
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right in that little section down on the
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bottom of the floor you have the cast
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and their hand prints right here on the
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the famous world famous Chinese Theater
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I figure it's kind of a nice tie-in not
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not necessarily A filming location but
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you know it was close you might as well
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show the handprints I was reading
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something earlier it's kind of
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interesting so Emma Watson originally
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was going to play Mia she was under
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contract to do Beauty and the Beast to
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live action so she couldn't do it so
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Emma Stone ended up taking the role and
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then in a nice interesting correlation
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also Ryan Gosling so this is kind of a
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weird tie-in between all the that all
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with with the Emma's and the Ryan
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Gosling Ryan Gosling turned down the
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role of Beast from Beauty of the beast
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in 2016 during the Academy Awards the
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movie ended up getting a lot of
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nominations and won quite a few things
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in fact it almost won best picture there
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was the whole mix-up I think probably
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before the the Will Smith incident last
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year was probably one of the the biggest
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biggest stories ever to come out of the
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recent Oscars where Moonlight which
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really won was not called out llama Lane
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was called out everybody went up and
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made the announcements it was kind of an
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awkward thing we've now made it over on
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the Santa Monica Boulevard we are now
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walking towards the end of the movie
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where Mia and her eventual husband
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spoiler alert not Sebastian we're
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walking Faith going towards sebs
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this is the exterior of steps which was
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Sebastian's jazz place he did not like
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the name of earlier in the movie but he
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eventually took Mia's advice
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and chose the name sebs they walked
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right in here it's all being remodeled
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here at 6202
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and they would have gone down some
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stairs now the Interiors were elsewhere
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but what we're looking at right here
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we're standing underneath the awning
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they walked in
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and they were walking directly that way
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now one way you can really tell this is
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the spot too is because when Sebastian
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pulls his car up he pulls it up directly
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in front of this metal box notice that
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it has the lock there on the side same
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lock same metal box same pole over to
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the side right here and when he gets out
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of the car after he gets out of his car
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Parks the classic car here on the side
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of the road walks past his place
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Mia's photo is on an upcoming movie
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poster right here on the side of this
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very wall but there it is there's her
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face on the side there he turned the
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corner the awning is gone
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but this is it looks a lot different
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they've completely changed the stucco
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and everything changing the exterior of
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the building
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this is sebs the exterior of sebs one
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last little frame of reference so this
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parking meter and you can kind of see
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the little indentation for the water
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drain down there the water meter down
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there that's that
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and that's this right here so just kind
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of like showing that put the windows off
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to the side of these stores and and
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everything so that's
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that's more or less that angle right
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a couple miles away walking up now to
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the corner while I parked down the way I
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drove over here
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I got out of the car walking up to the
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corner of Beverly Boulevard
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to this place called the jar or maybe
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just jar
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Corner in fact you could see
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in the movie she had made plans to go
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see Rubble without a cause
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and didn't realize that her and her then
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boyfriend who she broke up with at this
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moment
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had a dinner date with his brother I
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believe it was and you can see the tree
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here still looks the same as like she
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comes running out of but she goes inside
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here I believe the Interiors were in
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here as well
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but gets up from her table says I'm
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sorry
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she hears music you don't know if she's
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just imagining the music
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or maybe it's really coming through the
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speakers and playing the the tunes
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through there I kind of believe that
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maybe it's in her mind and maybe she
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just wants to hear the music of the
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piano that Sebastian is playing but she
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runs out of this very door they had some
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Hedges placed here you can even see this
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very unique tree
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that is placed there as well as shown
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right there and as she runs out the
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camera kind of it's kind of like this
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and it pulls back very quickly as she's
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running across you see the name of the
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establishment
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and then the camera
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kind of pans up into the trees in fact
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there's like a kind of a crane shot that
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goes like way up
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like this
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and follows her
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down the road way up high
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in fact you can see that awning with the
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address 8225
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on the angle as well a very beautiful
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scene but she runs around the corner you
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can even see the little yellow loading
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zone
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sign that's still there as well as the
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awning and of course all the trees match
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up and everything as well
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a number on the awning
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I mean she just runs down the road
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into the night there's only one brief
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moment here at the Chateau Marmont West
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Hollywood where you see Mia pulling in
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which he later on in the movie A couple
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years later when she gets rich and
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famous and becomes a famous actress she
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goes back to film a movie and she stays
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here as shown here
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definitely in that scene a lot less
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traffic and all those cars driving
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through just hurt one car pull it into
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there now made the commute up to towards
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the Hollywood side
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side of Griffith Park
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the Griffith Observatory
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when they got done well kind of sort of
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watching rub Without a Cause the screen
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ended up breaking
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as it was getting started like halfway
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through
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she had a great idea let's just go up to
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the observatory I kind of looked at this
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scene as more of a dream sequence than
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reality in fact you cannot drive a
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vehicle
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up here like you can just like
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me and Sebastian did
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so they drove along so and rub Without a
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Cause the vehicle drives right along
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here these are obviously workers these
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are not normal guests
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and they also follow suit and drive
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their vehicle and park right up towards
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towards the front
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emulating
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Rebel that is the real life city of
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stars
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are they shining just for me as the
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lyrics Say in the movie
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and both of them are kind of roaming
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around this little atrium about the
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little Overlook here
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looking for a door to go inside because
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it's closed so they end up finding the
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door which is right here over to the
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side
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so we've been that big metal door and
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they go inside and they have the
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observatory all to themselves it just
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kind of hit me it's been a long time
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since I've been up here probably since I
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moved out of Hollywood the 10 miles
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since I've been up here too there was
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one time you and I came up here years
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ago and we realized we could not get a
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ride share vehicle back down yeah the
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road closed at like nine or something
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and literally took a taxi
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down the hill it was like a 20 tax to go
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like half a mile literally just down the
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hill so they would let taxis up here but
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not ride share Vehicles yeah not any
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Ubers we had so many like cancel on us
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all right let's go with the camera
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inside oh yeah Hollywood side right over
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foreign
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I
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think they did
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also I was noticing too in all of La La
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Land they never show the Hollywood Sign
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yeah that is not when you said that I
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was like wow
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I wonder maybe this
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one takes so you can see over here where
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they're dancing and right before they
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went over by where that elevator is
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they ended up standing right here in
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front of this little information plaque
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and that's where they linked up hands
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even if you watch the movie you can see
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the pendulum is swinging
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and then they start dancing over to the
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right there and the Tesla coil scene as
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well where you can see the you can see
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the telescope there off in the distance
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when they're like kind of walking in
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okay you got the telescope there
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walk in directly this way they look over
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at the Tesla coil
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Sebastian kind of gets surprised by it
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but here is the Tesla coil in that sand
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what if it still works if you turn it on
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they do the Tesla coil like every hour
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or so as we just missed the testing of
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the testicle if we didn't have a bunch
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of other spots to get around greater LA
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area probably showcase it but and again
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now here is the planetarium now they did
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not use the Interiors of that the Samuel
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Austin planetarium Interiors were not
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used they built a set for that and since
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this is a spot from this is the exact
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spot from Rebel Without a Cause I got
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the bullets so yeah you've never seen it
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I've heard singing it we're trying to
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recreate the scene
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we both we've both seen Rebel Without a
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Cause many times but in the movie
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they're having that conversation
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I'm not the best actor
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heck pull off Ryan Gosling pretty well
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though
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it's uncanny it's uncanny
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Valley
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towards the very end of the movie
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they're sitting on a bench in this
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little concrete slab it's next to a
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little dirt path walkway below the
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observatory
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way down there and movie Magic they
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built look at downtown LA over there
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looking great but they built it right
21:47
down there
21:54
not a real bench and not a real slab
21:54
when they're having their conversation
21:56
about how
21:57
they're always going to love each other
21:58
forever from The Observatory made it
22:00
over to South Pasadena here on the
22:02
corner of Oxley Street
22:05
where Mia is driving from an odd a
22:08
failed audition driving this way and
22:10
she's kind of bummed out that didn't go
22:12
according to plan but then she remembers
22:14
she has a date here at the Rialto
22:17
Theater because she sees it out the side
22:20
of her driver side seat window
22:25
showed here to see Rubble Without a
22:27
Cause which is interesting we just
22:29
commuted over from the observatory about
22:31
25 25 minute commute give or take one
22:34
thing I like even though she didn't show
22:35
up he just continued going on with
22:38
seeing the movie he just still went
22:40
inside now this is a church building now
22:43
they're using it for a church or right
22:45
there was the Rebel Without a Cause
22:46
poster and the ticket booth right here
22:49
in the middle as well I never realized
22:51
there's a star down there as well
22:52
because the camera is held more like
22:54
this but there's the the top portion of
22:56
the the lights and the
22:58
let the neon but the top portion of the
23:01
Marquee looking up at it there
23:09
also some other posters that were there
23:09
Farewell to Arms radio Patrol
23:13
and they even had someone in the chicken
23:15
Booth right here
23:19
and I believe the Interiors were also
23:21
filmed in there as well
23:23
talk about the
23:25
oh opening night at the Rialto for the
23:28
Centennial Celebration 1988. fun fact
23:31
about this theater this the Interiors of
23:33
this were also used in Thriller you've
23:36
ever seen the meme of Michael Jackson
23:37
eating the popcorn the GIF is right
23:40
inside here as well all right drove over
23:42
to another area dog barking over there
23:45
parked the rental car here
23:48
now this spot here very unique with the
23:50
palm trees and the mountain in the
23:53
background this is where she shows up
23:55
for an audition short-lived audition to
23:58
Parks your car right here in this
24:00
parking lot and then heads in
24:03
and the talent agent stated to hear a
24:06
couple lines and decide that's good
24:08
enough
24:09
she got kind of upset and then the next
24:11
scene this looks like this building is
24:12
completely empty now she runs out well
24:15
not runs out but she walks out
24:16
bristfully this is the scene right
24:18
before the Rialto Theater When She
24:19
Drives By in the bad mood and then
24:21
remembers they're going to see the movie
24:23
together
24:24
and then this angle here
24:30
is where she's kind of taking her jacket
24:30
off
24:31
very upset that she's not going to get
24:33
that that role that she was looking
24:34
forward to being in the TV show this
24:37
wall matches up and this tree leading
24:39
tree still looks the same
24:42
right here
24:48
and then of course this I really love
24:48
this View
24:52
but you see the building behind it there
24:52
is kind of overgrown now if you Parks
24:54
your car right over here
24:57
and the boxes that are on the side I
24:59
guess maybe like a dumpsters behind
25:00
there but they've been busted out as
25:02
well the the bottom portion down there
25:05
it's already missing a
25:06
missing a section for one reason or
25:08
another this image kind of always sits
25:10
in my head from the film I know it's
25:11
always liked the angle of this at the
25:14
mountains behind there
25:16
and all that
25:18
kind of as I was saying when it comes to
25:20
like moving back to California I lived
25:22
in Orange County for a couple of years
25:24
about a year and a half 2015 to 16. and
25:27
then I bought an RV I traveled did
25:28
things like that for another year and I
25:30
was visiting my sister who lives in
25:31
Indiana and my mom was also visiting and
25:34
they were watching I had never seen it
25:36
but they put La La Land on and as I was
25:39
kind of you know watching it they were
25:41
showing a lot of the stuff around La
25:43
like the observatory Angels Flight you
25:46
know not the Hollywood sign but Griffith
25:48
Park you know all the downtown LA
25:51
and it really kind of made me maybe Miss
25:53
Southern California and then I thought
25:54
then and there I'm gonna look up
25:56
apartments and I did flew out and looked
25:59
at the apartment on Hollywood Boulevard
26:00
and got it not necessarily because of La
26:03
La Land but it definitely inspired me
26:05
and made me remember
26:06
how much I love the Lost Greater Los
26:08
Angeles area you know driving over the
26:10
Colorado Bridge Colorado Street Bridge
26:22
of architecture here and this is during
26:22
the Montage scene where they can be seen
26:24
walking across here through the street
26:25
lamps and everything's still match up
26:27
and this is what it looks like they'll
26:30
do a lot of road work on there too
26:32
check out classic carler going by there
26:34
as they're walking by
26:36
I think they must have taken the fences
26:37
down to get this too because there's
26:39
like real big fences up now both sides
26:41
of the bridge definitely covering some
26:42
ground today
26:43
we're going all around Greater Los
26:45
Angeles area you can see downtown's now
26:47
way over there we've got around it now
26:50
heading to Long Beach
26:53
these palm trees
26:55
prominently shown in the scene and also
26:57
the coloration of Mia's apartment
26:59
still looks the same painted pink kind
27:02
of a faded Peak now but pink nonetheless
27:11
and oh it looks like the foliage has
27:11
kind of grown a little bit since then
27:13
but she walks out of here
27:20
first your roommates asked her to go to
27:20
the party and she says no I'm just going
27:21
to kind of hang out hang out at home
27:23
tonight and then she gets a
27:25
desire to go and then she walks out here
27:28
in her dress meets up with her other
27:30
roommates right here
27:33
I believe the angle was kind of like
27:34
that where you see them all there and I
27:37
just kind of noticed it even says even
27:39
has a sign there the El Cordova sign is
27:42
in the movie itself as shown right here
27:46
you just kind of see the bottom of it
27:54
tree over to the side is kind of in the
27:54
frame also
27:55
and when they're dancing in the road you
27:58
see this
28:00
this bicycle
28:02
emblem here
28:04
and they filmed it at at Sunset when the
28:06
sun was going down so the sun sets over
28:08
that direction and they filled it all at
28:10
Sunset the camera kind of pans up
28:12
they use a crane angle into the road
28:15
looking down if you look closely yeah
28:18
you can see the emblem there the painted
28:20
bicyclists on the side of the road here
28:29
still there so
28:29
obviously the sun is not setting yet
28:31
soon it will be
28:33
but you get that magic hour photo when
28:35
they were
28:36
right here and then around back
28:39
was the scene where Sebastian picks her
28:41
up in his car so we're going to walk
28:42
around the back alley and match up that
28:44
angle also and if you walk around the
28:46
block from her apartment right over here
28:50
this is a corner of third and
28:52
Gaviota
28:53
across from the Long Beach fire station
28:56
here on this corner this should take you
28:58
into the back alley where
29:00
Sebastian picks her up honks the horn
29:02
he's known for Hawking his horn very
29:04
dramatically and the roommate even asked
29:06
if that's going to happen every time Mia
29:08
said I think so
29:10
this is pretty much another example of
29:12
how
29:13
you think it might be two different
29:14
locations but in fact it's the same
29:16
location
29:27
the electrical boxes and everything
29:28
still look the same
29:30
now there's no trash cans here there's
29:32
just a dumpster right over here that has
29:34
City of Long Beach
29:36
on it as well she opens up the gate and
29:38
comes right out
29:39
that's pretty neat
29:41
and here's the angle here so you got the
29:44
four bay doors
29:46
they were even painted look at their
29:48
painted pink or maybe like when I
29:49
printed this out it comes in a different
29:51
Hue but you see the ground kind of
29:53
looking that way and then that's where
29:55
the car pulls out straight out now the
29:58
Interiors of sebs I went to the
30:00
exteriors a little bit earlier but the
30:02
Interiors are here below the Historic
30:04
Hotel broadland at a place called The
30:07
Blind Donkey not open at the moment
30:09
they're open later tonight which maybe
30:11
they're not even open later today they
30:12
may be close for the day either either
30:13
way the gate is closed
30:16
but I'm gonna take a look up close but
30:17
they end up walking down here so she
30:19
goes down this and she turns in that's
30:22
where she sees the sign that says sebs
30:23
and she realizes oh my goodness my
30:27
ex-boyfriend has fight has his dream has
30:30
come true this was the staircase where
30:32
they walked down take a right and go in
30:34
obviously this is this is locked so I
30:36
can't get in but yeah this is it a place
30:39
here it's called
30:41
the Blind Donkey so I don't even know it
30:43
may not even be open it looks like
30:44
someone has shattered this window here a
30:46
couple different moments in fact the
30:48
last moment of the movie when she turns
30:50
around and looks back at him and he kind
30:51
of gives the smile they both give a
30:53
little smile at each other and then also
30:55
the dream sequence when it's almost a
30:58
kind of like the what if happened that's
31:00
down in the basement of the Blind Donkey
31:02
right down there
31:04
the ending always gets me
31:07
really does
31:09
always a lot of what ifs in life the sun
31:11
is kind of about to start setting
31:14
pretty lengthy day of commuting all
31:16
around La still
31:21
good your blimp is getting a bird's eye
31:21
perspective up there of the lighthouse
31:24
here in Hermosa Beach
31:27
which is the Jazz Club
31:32
where they first went and
31:32
Mia got her first taste of jazz and this
31:35
is what it looked like in the film
31:37
it's also kind of neat that even in the
31:40
movie The Business next door the
31:41
Waterman's safe house for Surfers
31:43
restaurant and bar is featured in the
31:45
movie as well
31:47
and you can see there they both are
31:48
there's them over on this side and Ryan
31:51
over on this side
32:02
a Lighthouse Cafe
32:02
it's kind of a wide lens
32:06
where you can see everything in there in
32:07
fact you could even see the Waterman's
32:09
restaurant next door and all that too
32:15
very distinct building and when they
32:15
exit out it's kind of interesting
32:17
because you notice in the scene they
32:19
both walk out of that door they both go
32:21
their separate ways and they want to
32:24
look back at each other but one of them
32:25
looks back and notices the other one's
32:28
not looking back so turns their head
32:30
and as soon as the other one turns their
32:32
head facing back that way the other one
32:34
looks back so they would just look back
32:36
at each other a moment sooner they
32:39
probably would have gone back and
32:40
embraced that's my thought anyway when
32:43
I've watched that scene
32:51
I'm not sure I guess you have to go
32:51
around the front of the building and see
32:52
if you can go in it might be open I
32:54
believe the Interiors were also filmed
32:55
inside of there
32:57
I really like this neon also the pier
33:00
the city of stars that he's singing and
33:02
all that the pier is just right over
33:03
there so he had another one this is like
33:05
the third occasion where really the
33:08
scene two different scenes are really
33:10
side by side and the continuity really
33:12
matches up which is kind of rare for a
33:14
lot of films
33:16
I mean a lot of things are spread out
33:17
but a lot of the scenes where they leave
33:18
one area
33:20
she walks that way he walks this way he
33:22
walks directly to the pier here's a
33:24
little mural here but take a look
33:26
there's even a jazz band playing up
33:28
there at the Lighthouse
33:30
there's the stage of the Lighthouse Cafe
33:31
there's Johnny Cash I think that's
33:33
supposed to be Johnny Cash right there
33:34
and there's a cat
33:37
all right stepping inside is pretty dang
33:39
awesome it looks identical as it did
33:42
again it's only been seven eight years
33:43
but still
33:45
looks exactly the same I can almost
33:47
picture the scene when he's trying to
33:49
explain Jazz to her how everyone's
33:51
working synonymously with each other but
33:54
everyone's yet everyone's doing the same
33:55
thing trying to stand out this is also
33:58
the area where John Legend came up and
34:00
offered him a job the character John
34:01
Legend plays as well and where me was
34:04
dancing over the corner
34:06
and Sebastian was us on stage playing
34:08
the piano is this was featured a few
34:10
different times and even some autographs
34:13
and things in here there's a bunch of
34:15
different autographs and signatures and
34:17
a poster and whatnot and it's located
34:20
right next to the beach
34:21
this looks like this looks really really
34:23
cool one thing I kind of knows too is
34:24
behind them when they're sitting at the
34:26
it looks as if the stained glass windows
34:29
were removed and replaced and part of
34:31
the stained glass window was turned into
34:33
like a mirror over in the corner but the
34:35
door still looks the same really
34:36
couldn't work out any better the Sun is
34:38
setting in the same spot
34:40
where Sebastian was up here singing city
34:43
of stars picks up the gentleman's hat
34:46
gives it back to him and dances with his
34:48
wife for a moment
34:53
I'll show this screen grab here in a
34:53
second
34:54
this is the pier the Hermosa Beach Pier
34:58
right along the water
35:00
all the Surfers out
35:02
and I just kind of realized it is
35:03
already
35:05
five o'clock been going since 9 A.M and
35:08
there are so many spots We're not gonna
35:10
get to all of them I'm just gonna cite
35:12
the obvious will not happen to get all
35:14
these done today
35:16
but you know just kind of wanted to
35:18
show quite a few of them very spread out
35:21
La the traffic as the day progressed
35:23
started to get pretty pretty nutty
35:36
anyway I think Pennywise the band not
35:36
that clown from Hermosa I think Black
35:39
Flag also were you out here or any of
35:41
your
35:42
relatives out here when they were
35:43
filming that scene yeah I just noticed
35:44
that too seagull at the lamp post there
35:47
are no real lamp posts it was all
35:49
set dressing the lamp there's no lamp
35:51
posts through here
35:53
seagull also noticed that but yeah the
35:55
lamp posts were placed all through here
35:57
they were not really
36:01
you take a look
36:03
you can see the cityscape off in the
36:05
distance
36:06
just like it looks in real life but all
36:08
those lamp posts were brought in
36:11
to make it look like they were lampposts
36:12
on the pier and they really weren't
36:14
it is 100 magic hour right now with the
36:17
sun glistening
36:18
over the shoreline and all those houses
36:20
up there this is a great area
36:23
those houses all got a pretty good view
36:24
of the water
36:30
pretty good
36:30
I was excited how the Lighthouse Cafe
36:31
still looks exactly the same
36:33
I get excited about the little things
36:35
I really like the movie a lot I really
36:37
do all right you ready to move on to the
36:38
next spot yeah we're already ready
36:42
we've been we've been traveling we've
36:44
been a lot covered a lot of miles today
36:45
already yeah a lot of miles you ready
36:48
ready for a couple more
36:51
101 miles out
36:53
are you good counting the miles I think
36:55
it's over 100 miles have you been like
36:57
adding them up
37:02
all right let's get this for posterity
37:02
now the thing we've got a lot of miles
37:04
you didn't know what you were in for
37:06
you're like oh I'll go to some La La
37:08
Land spots I love that movie and then
37:10
you're like do we have to go to all this
37:15
all right let's do this
37:15
let's get it
37:23
all right we got it nailed it now I've
37:23
continued over to West Adams in Los
37:26
Angeles
37:27
this is where she performed the play
37:31
so long Boulder City
37:34
and it looks like it was at one point
37:36
was an active theater but
37:40
at this moment
37:41
it's all boarded up
37:43
in fact you really can't match too much
37:46
up
37:47
okay you can
37:49
also here's the door she comes out of
37:52
here so this is the stage door here's
37:54
the address too 5253 West Adams but this
37:58
is when she comes out really a kind of a
38:00
sad scene this is when she decides to go
38:02
home
38:04
and he runs a little late because he was
38:07
under contract to do a photo shoot with
38:09
the band he was in but he wanted to see
38:11
the one-woman play that she had written
38:13
and performed or wasn't able to and this
38:16
was used a couple times once early when
38:18
she went to rent the place and then
38:20
later in the nighttime scene
38:23
when he ends up pulling up
38:25
he ended up making didn't make it to the
38:27
play but he ended up showing up as she
38:30
was just finishing up the turnout was a
38:32
really poor turnout it was just
38:34
basically her three roommates and
38:37
Sebastian's sister and like one or two
38:40
other people but this is kind of good
38:42
even though this is all boarded up this
38:44
right here was the window that Sebastian
38:48
knocked at can you hold the camera here
38:49
I'm going to reenact being Sebastian
38:52
yeah be careful the broken glass but
38:55
basically
38:57
here is
38:59
I'm gonna try to show where the here he
39:02
is so can you see this here
39:05
yeah does it show up pretty good yeah it
39:06
shows up really well so
39:09
here he is knocking on the window and
39:11
that's the same window with the same
39:12
frame and everything so basically it
39:15
kind of goes through here I don't want
39:17
to hit that
39:18
too hard to probably cut my hand yeah
39:21
they've done reaches through here and
39:23
knocks on the glass without any trouble
39:25
with that broken glass because I would
39:26
probably cut my hands yeah sorry if it's
39:28
shaky it's cold outside yeah
39:31
he was trying to get her attention
39:32
trying to get Mia's attention inside
39:34
there and then turns this way and she
39:36
comes walking out she was parked right
39:39
and very very dramatic very kind of a
39:41
one of the Turning Point the sad scene
39:43
really in the movie one of the sad
39:45
scenes of the movie at that point
39:48
you see anything up there
39:53
I think the place has gutted out
39:53
through there and it kind of looks like
39:55
that it is oh yeah maybe it is
39:58
completely gutted out
40:00
I kind of wonder what if they did the
40:01
Interiors in here the Interiors might
40:03
have been in here
40:05
maybe yeah you're basically standing
40:08
where she is
40:09
kind of off to the side there but she
40:12
closes the door and then he's like I'm
40:14
so sorry I'm so sorry that she comes
40:16
over here to the car she's like right
40:18
here his car is over here her car's here
40:21
she says I already I didn't even make
40:23
enough money to pay back the theater
40:24
she's kind of crying
40:26
says I'm going home she says you know he
40:28
thinks talk about the home that they
40:30
have but really talk about going home to
40:31
her parents house to Boulder City and I
40:34
kind of noticed too you know notice how
40:36
a lot of there's a lot of one takes in
40:38
the movie like long takes
40:40
so you're basically say standing where
40:42
Sebastian was she's over here she gets
40:45
this she goes no I'm going home and I'm
40:46
going I'm really going home and then she
40:49
I noticed like if you watch that scene
40:51
it's it's just one long like two minute
40:53
take but when she comes around the park
40:55
and gets in here and she's sitting here
40:57
she can't find her keys for like about
41:00
three second pause and then he's
41:03
standing over there it's really not even
41:05
that noticeable probably no one else has
41:07
probably noticed that there's that one
41:08
second pause
41:10
that he does when Sebastian's standing
41:12
right here and the car won't start you
41:14
know as an actor he can't break the
41:16
scene but she finally drives off and
41:18
he's like oh wait wait and then he kind
41:20
of like leans down oh man and there's
41:23
that one little second and I kind of
41:24
Wonder the director wanted to put a head
41:26
in there but he didn't want to do that
41:27
he's one of those long takes I don't
41:29
know it kind of makes it more realistic
41:31
because you're like thinking you're like
41:33
what do I do she's like don't believe
41:34
that it starts to be like oh wait no
41:36
wait and then he's just left there all
41:38
by his Lonesome his car
41:40
right over on this side so here's the
41:42
kind of the angle there so that's this
41:44
is the night time
41:46
view of the theater in the movie like I
41:49
said you can see that side I don't know
41:51
I just I really feel something when I
41:53
see this this little area here
41:55
I've watched the movie many many times
41:59
and this is one scene that really kind
42:00
of is you know noticeable when she walks
42:03
out of here it's a pivotal moment
42:07
and where her house was is way up by Six
42:09
Flags we're not going to go to it but
42:11
her flat her house
42:13
and the movie was not really in Boulder
42:15
City it was like I think it was like up
42:16
in Santa Claus Santa Clarita or in that
42:19
area I'll show you the kind of the
42:20
screen capture well not her house her
42:21
parents house and then when he ends up
42:22
finding out where Sheila because it was
42:24
across from the library
42:25
that's where well the light just turned
42:27
on up here look at this light is turned
42:28
on well that's the address there and
42:31
we're not going to go up to it because
42:31
we've we're definitely burning daylight
42:34
up the light is turned off oh it's like
42:36
a little
42:37
it's a little
42:39
security camera all right moving on to
42:42
the next spot Warner Brothers and then
42:43
we're going to have a nice delicious
42:44
meal
42:45
to end the day
42:48
at The Smokehouse which is the Interiors
42:49
where he played piano and got fired so
42:52
we got two more spots it is now 7 30 p.m
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quite the day of driving around L.A
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there were still a few more three or
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four more spots that weren't really key
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spots I kind of wanted to hit but I
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guess the grand scheme of things not
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not super important but we're gonna go
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inside the SmokeHouse momentarily for
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now I'm gonna walk over here to Warner
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Brothers and talk about how yesterday I
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did the deluxe tour and I just took a
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couple photos I couldn't get to all the
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La La Land spots at Warner Brothers you
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see the WB off in the distance but I did
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get a couple
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couple spots in there that I wanted to
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show I was able to see this this has
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been repainted this is when she's
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walking into the coffee shop she was a
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barista
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and this this coffee shop over to the
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left here and it was painted this color
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has been repainted since then
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actually they did some Interiors as well
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looking out
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and this right here is they say are the
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movies from Casablanca but I asked the
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guide and he was saying that's not true
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he said these really are not these were
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not used screen used in Casablanca but
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they stated so in la la land so
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fictionally I guess they might be and
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one more
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looking at the Batman city hall there in
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the distance there's no problem they're
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walking out of the coffee shop she
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worked out on the back lot
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and that's what it looks like modern day
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you see it's painted a little bit
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differently but they did fill the
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Interiors in there
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number of times in the movie and then
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this is when they walk out and you can
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kind of see the Batman
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who's in the original Batman burnt Ward
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series you see that in the distances
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him and Ryan walk out of there and do
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their scene and those are the windows
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that were said we used in Casablanca
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what they look like now pretty similar
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and repainted and touched up a little
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bit and this is when she was like all
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happy walking along the side
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as well they're pretty cool that was
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over at Warner right across and now for
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the Interiors
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of what we showed over earlier next to
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the mural over on kohanga and Hollywood
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Boulevard
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getting confused it was over off
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Hollywood Boulevard which is walking
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into liptons
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it's really The Smokehouse the Interiors
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of The Smokehouse
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and daf is good at a table so we can go
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in and eat
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while I was doing a little narration
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over at Warner's getting it's cold out
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here too it's kind of kind of chilly
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but gonna head in the SmokeHouse really
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cool place I've eaten here a number of
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times and I always think of La La Land
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when I'm in here where he had the piano
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in the middle of the in the middle of
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the room but he was getting the
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you know playing the songs the boss
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wanted to play Christmas songs the cool
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thing is they put us in there's three
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different rooms here they put us in the
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room where the piano scene is just over
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our shoulders a lot of people in here so
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it's going to be kind of hard to match
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everything up but basically she walked
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in the door over there and the piano was
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set up and you can see even the boots
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are the same in here the same tables but
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the booths would have this very unique
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like red leather boots those are still
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in here as well of course they had
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Christmas decorations because it was
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Christmas time in fact when the boss was
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gonna fire him he goes it's Christmas
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time it's Christmas he goes yeah I see
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the decorations if you're going to do la
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la land meal you might as well do it at
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The Smokehouse
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I can't think of any probably better
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other restaurant really that's featured
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in the movie well I guess there would be
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the place that she like walks out of her
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date but that I don't know you wouldn't
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want to eat there you want to have where
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they had the they had the memory of him
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seeing him play the piano for the first
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time so that kind of makes sense and
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it's a little chilly out here
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it's cold I'm really trying to picture
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that it's warm
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it's warm so we did La La Land we did
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I'm gonna say we did
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70 of the locations we did everything
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that we could do in a day for sure like
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we went all over traffic was a lot worse
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than I thought it was going to be if
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this had been on a Saturday or Sunday we
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might have been able to do a couple more
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spots but we got a lot yeah we did a lot
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yeah the only part is that we can't get
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to for sure you have to do like a three
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mile hike oh yeah so I forgot to mention
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the few spots that we could have
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probably done if we hit traffic wasn't
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so bad we did not go up to the area
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where they did the famous dance scene
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the one take dancing it's a poster and
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the the poster cover was modeled after
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the photo of them both doing the dance
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yeah
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yellow dress that is a like a three mile
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wouldn't be able to show all the other
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ones yeah one day we'll go up there one
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day all right that's gonna do it the tap
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dance
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maybe I'll learn how to play the piano
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perfect I'll bring I'll bring the shoes
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are tapping now right all right I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog
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