Editing Eugene, Oregon (section)

====Film====
The Eugene area has been used as a filming location for several Hollywood films, most famously for 1978's ''[[National Lampoon's Animal House]]'', which was also filmed in nearby [[Cottage Grove, Oregon|Cottage Grove]]. [[John Belushi]] had the idea for the film ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]'' during filming of ''Animal House'' when he happened to meet [[Curtis Salgado]] at what was then the Eugene Hotel.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Original Blues Brother: Curtis Salgado |url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/article.html |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Csse.monash.edu.au |archive-date=September 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929065329/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/article.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Getting Straight]]'', starring [[Elliott Gould]] and [[Candice Bergen]], was filmed at [[Lane Community College]] in 1969. As the campus was still under construction at the time, the "occupation scenes" were easier to shoot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trivia for Getting Straight (1970) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065775/trivia |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404223440/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065775/trivia |url-status=live }}</ref>

The "Chicken Salad on Toast" scene in the 1970 [[Jack Nicholson]] movie ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]'' was filmed at the [[Denny's]] restaurant at the southern [[Interstate 5 in Oregon|I-5]] freeway interchange near [[Glenwood, Lane County, Oregon|Glenwood]]. Nicholson directed the 1971 film ''[[Drive, He Said]]'' in Eugene.

''[[How to Beat the High Cost of Living]]'', starring [[Jane Curtin]], [[Jessica Lange]] and [[Susan St. James]], was filmed in Eugene in the fall of 1979. Locations visible in the film include [[Valley River Center]] (which is a driving force in the plot), Skinner Butte and [[Ya-Po-Ah Terrace]], the Willamette River and River Road Hardware.

Several [[track and field]] movies have used Eugene as a setting and/or a filming location. ''[[Personal Best (film)|Personal Best]]'', starring [[Mariel Hemingway]], was filmed in Eugene in 1982. The film centered on a group of women who are trying to qualify for the Olympic track and field team. Two track and field movies about the life of [[Steve Prefontaine]], ''[[Prefontaine (film)|Prefontaine]]'' and ''[[Without Limits]]'', were released within a year of each other in 1997–1998. [[Kenny Moore (runner)|Kenny Moore]], Eugene-trained Olympic runner and co-star in ''Prefontaine'', co-wrote the screenplay for ''Without Limits''. ''Prefontaine'' was filmed in Washington because the ''Without Limits'' production bought out [[Hayward Field]] for the summer to prevent its competition from shooting there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Steve Prefontaine and Running Legends |url=http://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/running/history/pre-legends/ |access-date=March 11, 2013 |publisher=Eugene Cascades & Coast |archive-date=February 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203040335/http://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/running/history/pre-legends/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Kenny Moore also wrote a biography of [[Bill Bowerman]], played in ''Without Limits'' by [[Donald Sutherland]] back in Eugene 20 years after he had appeared in ''Animal House''. Moore had also had a role in ''Personal Best''.

''[[Stealing Time]]'', a 2003 independent film, was partially filmed in Eugene. When the film premiered in June 2001 at the [[Seattle International Film Festival]], it was titled ''Rennie's Landing'' after a popular bar near the University of Oregon campus. The title was changed for its DVD release. ''[[Zerophilia]]'' was filmed in Eugene in 2006.

The 2016 ''[[Tracktown]]'' was about a distance runner training for the [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympics]] in Eugene.