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You can always tell a Yale man; you just can't tell him what he's doing in Harvard Square
By adamg on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 3:20pm
Eric Weinberger reports from New Haven on the Charles that some movie maker has recast an area near Harvard to look like Yale.
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I thought it was a practical joke like this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_prank
It's not exactly easy to get
It's not exactly easy to get filming rights at Harvard... Also Yale is has much more Gothic influence than Harvard. Seems like an odd location choice
I pahked my cah
I don't think that's Harvard. I believe that the former Episcopal Divinity School campus that is now owned by Lesley University at 99 Brattle.
Lesley
Ah, but this building is part of Lesley, not Harvard.
Another reminder of my ongoing aging process
I recognized that as Episcopal Divinity School on Brattle Street in Cambridge! Had no idea it was now housing Lesley College...um, I mean University!
That makes sense, I wouldn't
That makes sense, I wouldn't have thought Harvard would have easily handed over part of it's campus for a movie about Yale.
The campuses don't look at all alike
Memorial Hall and maybe some of the more modern buildings wouldn't look completely out-of-place on the Yale campus, but all the red-brick Georgian buildings in Harvard Yard/the River Houses/Radcliffe Quad look completely different from pretty much anything at Yale apart from Connecticut Hall.
Not sure how this comment is
Not sure how this comment is different from my original comment?
Cheaper in MA than CT?
I wonder if it just comes down to tax breaks etc that make it easier to film in Cambridge vs New Haven?
There are buildings...
...on the Old Campus which have stonework similar to the buildings in the photo so not that far off. They also have the correct seals for the residential colleges featured on the blue banners, though I have never seen such banners in New Haven (Google Bladderball sometime to find out why JE- Jonathan Edwards -sucks). Fiiming supposedly wrapped 2/8 on the Adam McKay film with Jennifer Lawrence & Di Caprio, so I’m wondering what production this is for? The only other project I’m aware of is the Dexter reboot, but that’s shooting in Worcester and nearby towns
Mystery solved!
It’s a George Clooney helmed film, The Tender Bar...
https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2021/03/04/tender-bar-lesle...
You can always tell a U Mass
You can always tell a U Mass Boston man, you just can’t tell him what he’s doing at Bunker Hill
He's the one standing in line
He's the one standing in line at SAV-MOR Liquors to get his shot.
Shots for sale
We can neither confirm, nor deny.
Dishonest
Movies are so dishonest.
It's almost like they just...
It's almost like they just... make stuff up! What's up with that??
Insert obligatory..
Yuck Fale
It could inspire a cool hack tho...
...MIT, you paying attention?
Still NYC downtown
Last time I was down there (ugh, too long), there was still a street sign on Essex that had its NYC Statue of Liberty decal on it from the Ghostbusters filming. Street view from November 2019.
LOL
LOL
Yale Patriots
finally come to rid us of the Harvard Tories.