<p>Anyone see the movie Proof? I just rented it recently, and it sort of gave me a depressing picture of UChicago. (To be fair, the movie itself was not exactly meant to be the feel good film of the year, by any means :))</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any other movies that have been filmed at Chicago?</p>
<p>I was actually an extra in Proof, though I have yet to see if I actually made it into the movie. I was in the scene at Rockefeller, in the back, with my mom and two sisters. I remember that Gwyneth Paltrow's speech ended with, "I'm glad he's dead. . ." </p>
<p>Anyway, there were "programs" from her father's (Anthony Hopkins's) memorial service, and, during a break, I went up to Gwyneth Paltrow, and she signed mine for me. The guy next to her ended up being Chris Martin, but I didn't know it; I thought he was just some guy with the movie crew!</p>
<p>ugh katharos i'm oh so jealous!!!</p>
<p>Ooh, I'm impressed Katharos.</p>
<p>in the movie, Paltrow's character, the slightly crazy and depressed intellectual, actually ends up going to northwestern, while Jake Gyllenhaal, the relatively normal, "cool" character, is at uchic. plus, both hopkins and gyllenhaal make a few snide remarks about NU ("Evanston? Why do you want to go to Evanston?"). If anything, it portrays northwestern in a bad light.</p>
<p>Other movies that have featured chicago: Opening scene in When Harry Met Sally, where Sally's car pulls out of the main gate. The rest of the examples i can think of are only small references, usually just to show that a character who lives in chicago is smart.</p>
<p>PS: that was really cool, katharos, and fyi, the scene did make it into the movie.</p>
<p>Katharos, i am so freaking jealous of you, you have no idea. you got to meet Chris Martin..<em>glare</em> :P</p>
<p>Don't forget that masterpiece staring Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman, "Chain Reaction."</p>
<p>"Eddie Kasalivich, an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, works as a technician for a scientific team that discovers an alternative, low-cost, pollution-free fuel source. When one of the chief scientists is murdered and the invention stolen, Eddie and physicist Lily Sinclair are framed for it and have to flee for their lives, with the FBI, CIA and other involved parties in close pursuit. Paul Shannon, Eddies mentor, is the director of a scientific company which - unknown to Eddie - has commercial interests in the invention. Eddie and Lily set out to find the stolen invention and hopefully clear themselves of the false charges."</p>
<p>(Hey, I was in a Sylvester Stallone movie, ...okay, I'm not impressed either.)</p>
<p>Yeah, the movie definitely portrayed NU as the inferior school... Sort of like a place you would go if you weren't really interested in academics.</p>
<p>What I meant by depressing was that they shot it in a way so as to make it seem as claustrophobic as they possibly could (except for the shot in the very beginning). But that was a stylistic choice that actually worked very well for the movie, imo. I also got the feeling that Chicago was a very sleepy place. I've never been there, so I can't really judge against reality.</p>
<p>Some of the scenes felt that way but really, a lot of it was shot off campus or in the wrong parts of campus. There is a scene where jake gyllenhaal's character comes out of eckhart hall into a part of the quad with four square bench things arranged into a square. The benches are real but that building certainly wasnt eckhart (it was either harper library or stewart, I cant recall). Other than that, I remember much of the movie taking place in interior spaces inside of homes and the such...</p>
<p>I believe all the interior scenes were shot in London.</p>
<p>Chicago doesn't have a film department. How is it that the director got his start?</p>
<p>lucky katharos.</p>
<p>my tour guide at the overnight said that she was late for class and she ran into anthony hopkins.</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>These might help.</p>
<p><a href="http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/</a></p>
<p>Anthony Hopkins was the only one I didn't see - and the only one I really wanted to see! </p>
<p>Oh well. Such is life.</p>
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in the movie, Paltrow's character, the slightly crazy and depressed intellectual, actually ends up going to northwestern, while Jake Gyllenhaal, the relatively normal, "cool" character, is at uchic. plus, both hopkins and gyllenhaal make a few snide remarks about NU ("Evanston? Why do you want to go to Evanston?"). If anything, it portrays northwestern in a bad light.
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<p>Not surprised given the person who wrote "Proof" went to UChic. </p>
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I also got a distinct "We are better than northwestern, even if the rankings don't show it" vibe at UChicago, whereas it wasn't even mentioned at Northwestern. I guess that comes from a lot of people asking for directions to Evanston after visiting.
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Not only that, but when someone mentioned Northwestern during our meeting with the admissions rep, her smiling cheery face suddenly turned to a cold ash-like stare. She never regained her cheery-self again during the visit.
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<p>Hmmm...when can they get over Northwestern?? :p</p>
<p>um...the attitude toward northwestern often seems to be disdain for its lack of intellectualism...and in my personal view, i dont think northwestern and uchic students pay each other much attention in terms of a "rivalry" ala Harvard/Yale or Stanford/Berkeley...the schools are just too different.</p>
<p>Northwestern is probably more intellectual than most schools and it isn't some hotbed for anti-intellectualism. LOL! UPenn is probably even more preprofessional than Northwestern.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is no real rivalry. Here its "northwestern sucks" and there its "don't get mugged" but thats about as far as it goes. </p>
<p>We are in chicago, they are in evanston (which is most certainly not chicago). It kind of parallels how northwestern is like a "suburb" to the academic climate at many other schools while uchicago is a proper part of the community (as is columbia, etc.)</p>
<p>I'd bet a lot of those econ majors at uchic are just as career-oriented as anyone. You can tell by just looking at those interested in econ/business asking about UChicago vs _______ in terms of internships/top consulting on CC. One of my friends went to Wharton with uchi as his second choice. He could have easily been a uchic grad (had he got rejected by Wharton) but he's still the very same person that now drives the BMW (when he got his car repaired, the car he rent had to be a BMW), tallks about clothes and hits the gym almost everyday so he can look as good as he can and almost never talk about anything "intellectual".</p>
<p>there are going to be some preprofessional people at uchic and some intellectual types at northwestern. a lot depends on the major, and the econ types at uchicago are notoriously preprofessional, especially when compared to the rest of the student body. i dont think northwestern is a hotbed of anti-intellectualism, and penn is definitely more preprofessional than northwestern. but when speaking in terms of the general nature of the entire student body, chicago tends to have more intellectual types than northwestern.</p>