We added a traffic signal as if you needed to stop until it turns green.

That gives him the excuse of stopping at the red light.

The guy pulls behind him, and it becomes a hijacking situation.

I wouldn't die for an insurance company.

Get in.

There's water in the trunk.

Welcome to Locationland, the show that puts movies in their places.

We're very fortunate to be here today with one of the great Los Angeles location managers of all time, a man who did La La Land, Terminator 2, and recently Crime 101, Mr.

Robert Foulkes.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you for being here.

Absolutely.

Where are we right now, and why are we here?

We are in Chinatown, Jake.

Sorry, I mean Harry.

Oh God, that was so corny.

That's all right.

Well, this is where the finale took place.

I love Chinatown.

I love Los Angeles.

Chinatown was voted as the number one Los Angeles movie of all time, which is a tall order because there's a lot of them.

When I saw that list, I agree with it, and I wanted to start here.

Forget it, Jake.

It's Chinatown.

This was 1974.

Let's go into the future.

Okay, 2026.

Downtown.

Let's go into downtown.

Sounds good.

I want to see it.

This is Crime 101.

It's all LA for LA.

Had a great co-manager, Doug Dresser.

He did a lot of this freeway stuff.

His team was great.

What's nice about this too, when we were looking at all, and we looked at on-ramps all over LA, it's nice how you can see a little piece of freeway here in the background, but we didn't need to control the freeway.

It looked great in the movie.

The curve is great.

Just had a really cinematic look to it.

This is where it happens.

That's pretty cool.

Our many ribbons of concrete for Los Angeles.

There's a certain beauty in it, right?

Yes.

Look, actually, I've done a lot of projects that involve freeways.

It's hard not to, when you're in Los Angeles, La La Land, obviously.

There's a kind of poetry in this in some weird way.

There absolutely is.

Right?

It is.

Saying ribbons of concrete is poetry.

[crosstalk] Oh, wait, this is actually great.

Sometimes you can take weird little-- we're actually getting off.

This is La La Land here.

What do you mean?

You're shooting.

This is the traffic jam scene at the end of La La Land.

We can get off right here.

This is actually where they get off.

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La La Land did open with a freeway, dancing and everything.

Then it goes darker toward the end of the movie.

This is now the start of her other life in the future.

She's getting off here with her husband.

They end up at Seb's, and she sees Ryan Gosling.

This was staged as a traffic jam.

People do this a lot because you can make it look like a freeway, but you're on a street.

You get a lot more opportunities in times of day and days of the week to shoot a scene like this.

Did you use this for Crime 101 or not?

Crime 101, we did a scene in the lower Grand Tunnel.

Also, Thaddeus Kosciusko is the other name for this.

You've seen it many times.

Like the Dark Knight Rises, I know famously, and a lot of action movies, right?

Yes, we did a shot [?]

got to do a shot in Crime 101 down here.

Barry Keoghan, introduced here on his motorcycle.

He's all tough.

You see his motorcycle helmet in the trailer, riding down here.

It looks incredible at night with the lights, but also daytime, amazing, too.

You see these pockets of light driving underneath it, and it's unique.

When you're shooting in LA, this is where you want to do a shot here.

It's pretty cool because it's only four blocks, maybe, than that.

It looks much longer-- [crosstalk] You're looking like an infinity going that way, especially at night, too.

This is famous for Terminator.

Any Terminator fan, the first Terminator.

Michael Dean being chased, he's down here.

He smashes into this wall, and this is it.

This is where that scene took place.

I assume they had to add the wall where he smashes into, but this is the end of the lower Grand Tunnel.

It's very unique to LA.

I love it.

You go under these tools of light.

I know that they shot The Soloist here with Jamie Foxx.

He's playing the cello down there on the corner.

Pretty crazy area.

How do you get down here?

Do people even know about it?

No, people don't.

We're not supposed to be standing here.

I don't have a permit.

We've got to get out of here.

I don't have a permit.

Let's get out of here.

I don't know if we can say that.

I like our dumb little transition.

This is one of the world's shortest funiculars, the railroads, right?

It's also a very short scene in La La Land, even though people remember it.

Just part of a montage.

Great shot of them sitting on there, kissing in the seats as they're going up.

Then they get out and they do a little dance here, shot.

Can you show me the dance?

[laughs] There you go.

When folks like Damien Chazelle, the director of the film, or Justin Hurwitz, the composer, talked to you about classic LA locations, did they know about the history of movies shot at Angels Flight?

It came up in conversations.

Angels Flight, in general, was really shot in a lot of classic film noirs.

This was Act of Violence, Kiss Me Deadly.

There's incredible shots in film noirs of it going up over a street.

It's incredibly cinematic.

Just be a tourist in your own town.

Why not?

It's a huge city.

I'm really curious, you shot at Angels Flight with Ryan and Emma.

Did you guys shoot down here at Grand Central Market right next door on the same day?

Yes.

How do you not do a scene here when you're right next door?

You don't know where you are when you're inside here.

You don't know where you are.

It's just bright and colorful and big.

It could be any place, right?

How cool is this that they have a little plaque here?

Take a moment and pose a picture at Sarita's.

This is the spot where it shows [?]?

Where's the spot?

That's it.

It's one just beautiful, wide shot of them sitting right here.

Now, another location, eventually you shoot the same things twice when you're doing this for 30 years.

Crime 101, we did a scene right here.

Same place?

It's a quick shot in the trailer.

You see Chris Hemsworth meets Nick Nolte in this same-- we picked the same one.

Did you tell the director of Crime 101 this is where he shot La Land?

Oh yes.

He liked that?

Yes.

There's something about this quarter that's pretty cinematic anyway.

This counter is just really special.

I think it's pretty great that movie tourism has finally taken off in Los Angeles, that they actually have something up there like that, right?

Yes, I think this is really special to know that they put that on there.

Why don't we go on and look at other places?

I think all of these are the same guy, and he hits every time along the 101 freeway.

What is it about directors wanting to do these massive scenes on freeways, chase scenes?

I don't think I've ever seen a musical number on a freeway.

Actually, on it?

No, that was very inspired-- [crosstalk] Did anyone tell Damien this is nuts?

It had to be organized like a military operation of where all the cars were positioned.

We had to restripe it so the cars are all going one direction.

We had to park all of the equipment one direction so we didn't have to keep going back down to a base camp down below.

The choreographing of the dancing was also, I remember walking out of the production office and watching them lining up cars and choreographing the dancing.

Like I said, it was like a military operation of how each car needs to be placed, which dancers in which car, where does the camera move.

I had already requested so much time of two and a half days for the filming that they made us tech scout it at night.

Here's my question for you.

When you're planning all of this, do you think, "Why am I doing this?

No one's ever going to see this movie.

This is the nuttiest thing ever"?

No, I had faith.

I was excited to work with Damien because of Whiplash.

You feel confident that this guy's going to pull it off because Whiplash was so good.

That's icing on the cake when you feel confident on the movie being good because of what they've done before.

Same with American Animals for Crime 101.

Doing another movie with Bart, knowing how much I love American Animals, just feels good.

We're here at the corner of Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.

What happened here in Crime 101?

This is a great scene in Crime 101.

[scene from Crime 101] Doesn't matter how much money you make, it's never enough.

I'll know when I have enough.

How?

We created this right here of them sitting here.

We really wanted to feature this mural.

It really shows off LA, too.

No, I love this part of town.

It's great to highlight Echo Park.

We're going to go to another location just up the hill, Elysian Park.

This is an amazing view.

Right where we're standing, I watched them build this playground here of all the other cute little kids playing, all happy.

Then Sarah Connor comes toward this chain link fence.

I watched them put up this fence here.

I was a lowly assistant on that movie.

You were in your 20s?

[laughs] It was amazing.

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movie, right?

Six months I was on that movie, thrust into moviemaking, and the most expensive movie ever made at the time.

We put up this chain link fence over here.

She runs up to the fence, and she looks out, and this turns into a nuclear nightmare.

This becomes a nuclear cloud washing over the kids on the playground, Sarah Connor, at the fence.

Horrific.

I didn't know it was this bad.

It's gotten worse since I even thought of this.

It's gotten worse.

Jeez, that's crazy, but this is shameful, what's going on here with the mural.

Yes, it is sad.

I think of a Ryan Gosling line in La La Land where he says- They worship everything, and they value nothing.

That sounds a little extreme, but I think about it a lot when I see what happens to a mural like this.

I feel like Mia right now thinking it's going to be hard for her to become an actress.

This is symbolic of what this thing looks like right now, where you can't even see the faces of these actors on this incredible mural.

That's the window that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman looked out of in Casablanca.

Wow.

Yes.

I can't believe you worked right across the street from that.

Yes.

I used to dream of having a Mustang when I was a kid.

I'm Steve McQueen.

You ever see the Thomas Crown Affair?

Plays a high-class thief in it.

I like to pull up all the chases.

We loved all the chases in Crime 101 with an all-star cast of great actors in great locations, including the Sixth Street Bridge, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Langer's Deli, Venice Beach's Windward Avenue, and many other classic LA movie destinations.

Here comes a moment when you realize you don't have as much time as you thought you had.

We started this episode with the ending of Chinatown, and now we're starting at the beginning of Robert Foulkes' incredible career.

Terminator 2, Judgment Day.

We're at the famous spot where the semi-truck ends up, amazingly, you can't believe it's happening, and John Connor on his motorcycle can't believe it's happening.

The T-1000 decides to not only go over to this edge, but he jumps off the bridge with the truck and continue chasing him.

My job as an assistant location manager, one of them was we had to create a pulley system in the middle of the street with the truck, with the pulley system, with the cables going one way, pushing the truck this way.

The truck started coming, and there was no way it was going to have the speed to go off of this bridge into the river.

They wished that the truck had stopped.

It comes, and it inches, and it stopped just before it went over.

If that truck had gone over, you'd have to reset.

I don't even know if they could use the same one because it would have gone straight down in.

It stopped closer to the edge.

They backed it up.

The next take, beautiful.

It's in the movie.

The pulley system worked.

The truck went off.

I remember the time everyone burst into applause in scenes like this.

You don't know for sure if it's going to do this perfect landing and keep going.

It could still stop, but it did this perfect, and it's in the movie.

It does this perfect, just boom, boom, boom, and keeps going.

Are there any fans who come to this site, make a pilgrimage, and consider this like holy of holies?

It's on Google Maps, too.

You see the bridge from Terminator 2 on Google Maps.

It's always fun to see something become iconic like that.

It's a beautiful spot.

How does it feel coming back here so many years later?

Today, we've had quite a journey.

Would you ever return to some of these spots with friends and family?

I'll be back.

I'll be back.

Thank you.

You are fun.

It has been fantastic.

A great day.

A great day.

What a whirlwind journey.

Thank you for joining us.

Go check out Robert's new movie, Crime 101 [?]

All of these locations can be seen.

These are all things tourists and people can go visit.

All visitable.

Visitable.

Discover Los Angeles with your friends.

Please discover Los Angeles.

Keep it alive.

Yes.

Thank you, guys.

Bye.

I was in the lobby of True Lies when the horse runs through the lobby and gets in the elevator.

Schwarzenegger's actually on the horse?

He's on the horse.

That sequence is amazing.

From the time that he steals that horse until they go off the roof and the horse doesn't want to do the jump in the swimming pool, you're in two states, East Coast, DC, five locations here, streets.

It's just, you piece it together and you watch this thing.

That's part of the magic of what you have to do, is how many different places you are in trying to look like one sequence just to get the different shots you want.

That's just him running through.

It's supposed to be in Washington, DC, but he's running through the lobby.

One of my jobs was to make sure there was enough protective in the water because the horse goes into the water and you put the rubber mats so the horse doesn't slip as he jumps in and running through the water in that lobby.

I don't know if they'd let you do that today.

There's a little plaque on the wall showing the elevator that he gets into of True Lies.

That's very cool.

That's pretty amazing that a horse got in that elevator.

Then, of course, you're on stage in a different elevator that looks like that elevator.

That's the magic of movies and the fun of what we piece together.

That's a fine animal.