Serious about suspension of disbelief, about immersing yourself in the reality of imagination? Movies are a good place to start. Better yet, the real, live on-location sites where your favorite scenes were shot.
To that end, there are few more iconic places to see original locales than San Francisco and the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
In San Francisco you can see:
– The spot in the Hitchcock classic Vertigo where Jimmy Stewart jumped into the water to save Kim Novak.
– The house where Robin Williams’ family lived in Mrs. Doubtfire.
– The building where Christian Slater interrogated Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire.
– The scene of the most famous car chase in all filmatic history, the impossibly precipitous streets of San Francisco that where Steve McQueen’s Mustang took on the world in Bulitt.
The San Francisco Movie Tour serves up tons of movie trivia too. If you’re a film geek, this is a trip of a lifetime.
Something a bit more exotic? How about Kauai, the site of scores of films and TV shows over the years. The Hawaii Movie Tours can transport you in time and space to:
– Wailua Falls where Fantasy Island and The Amazing Race were filmed.
– Hanamaula Bay, site of Donovan’s Reef and Voodoo Island.
– Coco Palms, Johnny Depp’s favorite slice of Hawaii. Here he starred in Pirates of the Caribbean.
– Kapaa Town. You can’t take a proper movie tour of the island without walking in the footsteps of dinosaurs (the imaginary kind). Kapaa Town was the site of all that reptilian revelry in Jurassic Park, the film for which Kauai is best remembered.
Story by Jerry Chandler
