Thursday, November 01, 2007
Is your house famous?
So, when we bought the house, we were told that it was used to film a movie a few years ago. The movie is called Hate Crime, and the previous owners even left us a promotional poster for the film when they moved out. I immediately put it on my Netflix queue. It arrived a couple of weeks ago.
I didn't feel good today, so I stayed home from work. I watched a couple of things on the DVR, and then Victor convinced me (by phone) to watch Hate Crime. He wasn't that interested in watching it with me, so I decided to watch it by myself.
The movie was filmed in 2004, before our house was renovated, so it was very interesting to see what the place used to look like. The library was a functioning porch, with a glass door and everything. I'm not sure what was up with the sunroom, but it either wasn't there or was vastly different. My guess is that it wasn't there, and there was a huge window or something where the interior french doors are. Apparently, there used to be a way into the kitchen from the hallway. It was distracting, actually, because I kept pausing and rewinding to figure out the differences in the house. But it was totally our house. Same mantle over the fireplace. Same windows. Same oak tree in the front. Most of the landscaping was different, and the fence was chain link instead of wooden. It also had weird colorful trim on the outside, instead of white.
The film itself wasn't that great... it started out pretty laughable, but it turned out to be engaging enough. I got into the story. For the first 20 or 30 minutes, I kept thinking that the main character was familiar. So I looked it up on IMDb. And then I figured it out! It was Robbie from "Providence" (aka Seth Peterson)! Robbie Hansen, totally in my house! Come on, I know some of you must have watched that show. It was lame, yes, but addictive. And it had B.J. Hunnicut in it!
A large part of the action took part on our street. I recognized neighbors' houses and wondered what it must have been like to have a fairly big budget movie filming in the neighborhood. The behind-the-scenes features showed cranes and dollies and everything. It must have been exciting for the 'hood, especially with marginally famous actors roaming around.. I'm glad I watched the movie, and I'm glad that my house is immortalized in film, even if it looks different now.
Oh, and guess what? Of course our house was where the bad guy lived. Of course it was.
So, when we bought the house, we were told that it was used to film a movie a few years ago. The movie is called Hate Crime, and the previous owners even left us a promotional poster for the film when they moved out. I immediately put it on my Netflix queue. It arrived a couple of weeks ago.
I didn't feel good today, so I stayed home from work. I watched a couple of things on the DVR, and then Victor convinced me (by phone) to watch Hate Crime. He wasn't that interested in watching it with me, so I decided to watch it by myself.
The movie was filmed in 2004, before our house was renovated, so it was very interesting to see what the place used to look like. The library was a functioning porch, with a glass door and everything. I'm not sure what was up with the sunroom, but it either wasn't there or was vastly different. My guess is that it wasn't there, and there was a huge window or something where the interior french doors are. Apparently, there used to be a way into the kitchen from the hallway. It was distracting, actually, because I kept pausing and rewinding to figure out the differences in the house. But it was totally our house. Same mantle over the fireplace. Same windows. Same oak tree in the front. Most of the landscaping was different, and the fence was chain link instead of wooden. It also had weird colorful trim on the outside, instead of white.
The film itself wasn't that great... it started out pretty laughable, but it turned out to be engaging enough. I got into the story. For the first 20 or 30 minutes, I kept thinking that the main character was familiar. So I looked it up on IMDb. And then I figured it out! It was Robbie from "Providence" (aka Seth Peterson)! Robbie Hansen, totally in my house! Come on, I know some of you must have watched that show. It was lame, yes, but addictive. And it had B.J. Hunnicut in it!
A large part of the action took part on our street. I recognized neighbors' houses and wondered what it must have been like to have a fairly big budget movie filming in the neighborhood. The behind-the-scenes features showed cranes and dollies and everything. It must have been exciting for the 'hood, especially with marginally famous actors roaming around.. I'm glad I watched the movie, and I'm glad that my house is immortalized in film, even if it looks different now.
Oh, and guess what? Of course our house was where the bad guy lived. Of course it was.
