Being an L.A. guy, I always love when a film is set here and I see locations that I recognize. It’s easy to set a movie here because it’s a perfect setting and it’s the birthplace of modern film. But it’s hard to make movies that capture L.A. perfectly or use it as a character or become iconic.
Too often, L.A. just plays the background. Movies are set
there but aren’t really from there or it’s just there because. As I’m doing my
part to discover what it means to be an Angeleno, here’s 10 of my favorite L.A.
movies (not in any order)
