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Post by Hilltopper on Apr 20, 2013 20:40:47 GMT -5
Lots to choose from. Many movies with Georgetown connections, but I have a subtle one. This song came up on shuffle the other day and I remembered how excited, as a young Hoya fan, I was the first time I saw this video back in the day.
If you don't want to listen to the entirety of a great song, skip to the 3:20 mark.
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Post by jgalt on Apr 20, 2013 21:37:21 GMT -5
I will always love the line from "Rosa Parks" about romancing women like a Georgetown mascot.
Also all the gtown gear that the kids wear in Hoop Dreams.
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Post by HometownHoya on Apr 20, 2013 22:26:55 GMT -5
I will always love the line from "Rosa Parks" about romancing women like a Georgetown mascot. Also all the gtown gear that the kids wear in Hoop Dreams. Bulldoggin hoes like dem Georgetown Hoyas
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Post by Problem of Dog on Apr 20, 2013 22:48:35 GMT -5
I will always love the line from "Rosa Parks" about romancing women like a Georgetown mascot. Also all the gtown gear that the kids wear in Hoop Dreams. Bulldoggin hoes like dem Georgetown Hoyas That was the first that came to mind, of course.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Apr 21, 2013 0:30:32 GMT -5
Lots to choose from. Many movies with Georgetown connections, but I have a subtle one. This song came up on shuffle the other day and I remembered how excited, as a young Hoya fan, I was the first time I saw this video back in the day. If you don't want to listen to the entirety of a great song, skip to the 3:20 mark. No offense, but I actually think this is a pretty poor example. You can't even tell it's a Georgetown jacket on the saxaphonist unless you're looking for it, the view is from the side so you can't see the whole thing. If this is what you're going for, I prefer this odd classic (Georgetown part starts at about 0:55 in): I've yet to see Hoop Dreams, but I have heard that movie is ripe with Georgetown references. It's on my list. Off the top of my head, "Burn After Reading" had some shots in the Georgetown neighborhood, and President David Palmer's character in the TV series "24" was a Georgetown basketball player. And I feel yelling that part of "Rosa Parks" was part of my freshman year party initiation. I don't think it qualifies as pop culture anymore, but I do think that "The Exorcist" needs to be mentioned. So many shots of Georgetown's campus and neighborhood - some look just about the same today as they did in the 1970's (obviously the titular steps, also the library steps and the intersection of 36th and Prospect) others drastically different (the scene with the track is the most glaring example I can remember).
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Post by Hilltopper on Apr 21, 2013 7:34:49 GMT -5
Well, since I said it was my favorite- not the best- it cannot be a poor example. Thanks for the input, though.
Obviously there are plenty of more obvious ones. I am in the crowd scene in Above the Rim so that is also a favorite. Pretty much everyone in that scene had Hoya connections. The two officials were Assistant AD Adam Brick and golf coach Tommy Hunter, both of whom were actual high school officials- very good officials, actually.
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Post by TBird41 on Apr 21, 2013 10:48:24 GMT -5
Sterling Archer is a Georgetown graduate
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Post by LizziebethHoya on Apr 21, 2013 11:37:02 GMT -5
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Post by HometownHoya on Apr 21, 2013 12:32:17 GMT -5
Sterling Archer is a Georgetown graduate Love the references in Archer!
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Post by strummer8526 on Apr 21, 2013 16:42:27 GMT -5
I enjoy the X-Files pilot, where Moulder is seen running on a track wearing a Georgetown shirt.
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Post by Just Cos on Apr 21, 2013 17:40:13 GMT -5
Jack Ryan got his doctorate at Georgetown and too many references in Clancy's books to mention.
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Post by SirSaxa on Apr 21, 2013 19:21:25 GMT -5
In the first year of the series 24, President David Palmer (played by Dennis Haysbert) "used to play ball at Georgetown" -- I think he even hit a game winner in the final four.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 21, 2013 20:06:50 GMT -5
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Post by hoyatables on Apr 21, 2013 20:46:51 GMT -5
The many references in West Wing associated with Zoe, culminating in her graduation at the end of Season 4.
I'll be the first to say St. Elmo's Fire, even though the shots aren't actually of the university.
I love the mention at the end of the movie "Election." We all knew (or were) students like Reese Witherspoon's character.
Not a direct one, but Roy's appearances on Parks and Rec are pretty awesome, too.
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Apr 21, 2013 22:00:23 GMT -5
Biz Markie wears a Georgetown sweatshirt in the video for "Just a Friend." Also, in the Jaspn Bpurne books, his alter ego is a professor (of linguistics?) at GU.
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Post by whatmaroon on Apr 21, 2013 22:16:51 GMT -5
The big speech the male lead has to give at the end of Girl Next Door is for a John Carroll Scholarship, though I can't recall if they refer to it by that name or just as a scholarship to Georgetown.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 22, 2013 8:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by flyoverhoya on Apr 22, 2013 11:26:09 GMT -5
On the movie references - I get a kick out of some of the weird geography. For instance - there's a shot in St. Elmo's Fire where the characters are heading down P Street in a jeep, and when they get to about where the wall at White-Gravenor would be, they are suddenly transported to the main green at (I think) the University of Maryland.
In Exorcist III (shot one summer while I was there), a character enters Loyola Hall (which was serving as Georgetown Hospital) and goes to a patient's room in which the view out of the window as clearly shot from Village B.
No Way Out rather famously placed a subway station (not a DC station either) at the Georgetown Park mall.
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Post by nodak89 on Apr 22, 2013 11:26:21 GMT -5
College Road Trip starring Raven, Martin Lawrence and DONNY OSMOND!
...somebody had to say it.
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Post by sead43 on Apr 23, 2013 12:20:04 GMT -5
for children of the 90s, the exterior shot used for Pennbrook University in Boy Meets World is Healy Hall. (some people don't believe me when i point this out, but I'm not crazy on this one, right?)
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