Originally Posted by
CTMilller
The Graduate from 1969/70. I watch it every couple of years. Still stands up as one of my favourite films.
My daughter and I enjoy visiting film scene locations and we have quite a few for this film locally. UC Berkeley where Elaine went to university and Benjamin visits her (though several of the shots are actually locations in LA.) Driving across the Oakland Bridge. (The shot has him driving in the wrong direction for the logic of the scene. The bridge has also changed dramatically from how it looked fifty years ago.) San Francisco Zoo. (Again, the wrong zoo for the scene since they would have gone to the Oakland Zoo by bus from Berkeley.)
We also visited the church in Pasadena where Elaine is supposed to marry the preppy boy. (In the film they put it in Santa Barbara which is a more realistic drive form SF.) Looks exactly the same as in the film except there is no outside staircase to the upper level; that was built specially for the film to give Benjamin outside access. I've stood at the point where Dustin Hoffman bangs on the glass and screams "Elaine! Elaine!
Yeah, I'm a film scene nerd - so sue me!