By the way, anyone not from the west coast – next time you see pulp fiction pay special attention to the car scene in the latter third. The wolf comes to a house. Where is that house? Samuel L. Jackson explains to John Travolta that the house is in Toluca lake and that it is “up the street from Warner Brothers studios.” Toluca Lake is an amorphous mass that bleeds into and through North Hollywood, Burbank, Universal City, etc. Alfonso Robero lives there – although maybe he’ll move now that he’s shown he can be a professional singer (yes I’m being sarcastic, I don’t know how that show was allowed to limp along to a season finale).
Today I’m watching “Free Enterprise.” The scene where the boys find William Shatner takes place in the Iliad bookshop on Lankershim boulevard. This bookshop is about two miles from my current apartment and half a mile from the apartment I used to share with Aaron.
It is becoming very obvious that when east coasters watch a movie and assume it is supposed to take place in a small town – it probably is being shot (and takes place) somewhere in the lower San Fernando Valley.
Now if I could only figure out where they shot the scenes discussing “William Shatner’s Julius Caesar,” it looks like a cool place to hang out.
Sadly this movie is turning out to be another “I’m a screenwriter and I’m going to write a movie that shows how much I know about film and popular culture, being a trekkie is cool if I can write a popular movie where we discuss the episodes as metaphors for life.” “oh – and I’m turning 30 like everyone else in LA and I haven’t made it in the industry yet…time to write my own coming of age story.”
Will there be another one in a few years for when I turn thirty, or was that Clerks 2?
