Does anybody know where the end credits were filmed and... - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Discussion

[–] Mr-Fusion 15 years ago

The Team Banzai March was filmed at the Sepulveda Dam in the San Fernando Valley. At present, the location is maintained by the Army Corps. of Engineers and is closed to the public (basically your best shot at getting a picture is from the 405 North or the 101 West).

It was also seen in John Carpenter's Escape From New York

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[–] meowsks 15 years ago

Wow, thanks a lot for the info. Sigh, I guess I let my imagination run away with me when I envisioned walking around in there... reality always hits back at you. Nevertheless, that's on my list of places to go. Thanks again man.

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[–] Defenseman13 14 years ago

If you really want to walk around in the LA river, go for it. Be careful though.

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[–] mike_cable 15 years ago

The song is simply called 'End Credits' and can be found on the soundtrack. The soundtrack is a strange but entertaining piece of work, like the film.

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[–] cljohnston108 15 years ago

YouTube - Buckaroo Banzai end titles (credits) (good quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo

From IMDb Trivia...

When it came time to film the end titles sequence, where Buckaroo and pals are walking around a dry L.A. aqueduct in step to the music, the music wasn't ready. Composer 'Michael Boddicker' told the film crew to use "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel as a placeholder because it was the exact same tempo. Those scenes were filmed with "Uptown Girl" blaring from a boom box tied to the back of the camera truck.

The Sepulveda Dam has been featured in a whole lotta stuff...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulveda_Dam
It also has a bike path!

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[–] bohoki 14 years ago

about the end did the aliens bring back to life everyone who dies or was the end just a kind of overview of the group

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[–] thisnameinuse 14 years ago

I don't think the aliens brought anyone back to life. Buckaroo somehow charged Penny back to life with his ionization, but that was it. The rest of the dead characters that were walking at the end were just a group including the full Team Banzai.

Somebody brought a monkey, because the monkey knocked over the salad bar...

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[–] Lord-Z 13 years ago

I think I read somewhere that the original intention was that Rawhide would be cryogenically frozen until they could find a cure. Who else were dead in the march?

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[–] arse24uk2000 14 years ago

try mp3raid.com they have the ending tune on there can't get it out of my head

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[–] Dr-girlfriend 14 years ago

I have the song on my droid- I got it from "mp3 downloader"- there's two of them- ones a basic app that let's you download free music and the other one is "mp3 downloader pro," which can show dicography, artist history, and so on- both apps have a blue smiley face wearing headphones on their heads- theyre really good downloaders!!:D

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[–] EnyaMom 14 years ago

Just courious re the downloaders, where did you get them?

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[–] mst3k0 12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo

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[–] ShannonTriumphant 12 years ago

That was a good article on the Sepulveda Dam...and the list was a nice touch! Did they leave out another sci-fi classic, though? (I always assumed it was filmed there): "Repo Man"...and possibly a plain classic, "Chinatown".

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[–] MuggySphere 12 years ago

Didn't Knight Rider also use the same area? I seem to recall the car driving up on those raised curves...

What are those huge raised curves?

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[–] cirvin1258 12 years ago

Muggy,

The Sepulveda Dam is, by today's standards, the beginning of the L.A. River (which is now nothing more than a flood control channel).

The dam, and the area in front of it, is all concrete, then for the next 10-20 miles, it has rock banks - then becomes all concrete for all but the last couple of miles of it's run to the ocean, where it ends up, in Long Beach, Ca. (as a bit of useless trivia, is passed a mere hundred yards or so, from Jesse James' West Coast Choppers, when they were in operation)

Yes, the river itself has been used in countless films/TV shows, including Blue Thunder, Repo Man, The Gumball Rally (I watched them film the river scene when I was a kid!), Last Action Hero, and To Live And Die In L.A.

I think it's either the 2ns St. Bridge, or the 4th St. Bridge over the river, that is also used in many films. (and many of the above)

Another bit of trivia: The Sepulveda Dam is also the one in True Lies, when they drop off Bill Paxton. (that's the ledge he's standing atop)

More useless knowledge: there isn't really any water behind it, per se(!), and most of the land is a park. There were plans to build condos there in the early '90's, because "there's never enough rain to warrant its use as an actual dam". Well...in '94, that park was about 30 feet under water!

And so, the park remains.

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