“One Battle After Another,” partially filmed in Humboldt County, is now playing in local theaters. A few dozen people attended the first public local showing for a 4 p.m. show on Thursday.
“That looks like Humboldt!” a man said as a damp cabin in the redwoods came on screen.
Residents told the Times-Standard they came to see their home represented on the big screen.
Tiffany Ramirez has been curious to see the film, since she noticed filming in Old Town and posts calling for extras.
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson work close to the Cal Poly Humboldt as part of filming the “BC Project” last year. The film, now called “One Battle After Another” comes out in September. (Jillian Wells, Cal Poly Humboldt/Contributed)“It’s just kind of cool to put the two and two together and be like, ‘Oh my god, (Leonardo DiCaprio) was at Sequoia Park? He was at Murphy’s?’” she said.
Familiar sights like Eureka High and Arcata’s Raliberto’s Taco Shop popped up throughout the nearly three-hour viewing time, depicting a fictional Baktan Cross.
“I’m very excited to see the scene that was filmed in Arcata, with Leo running on the bridge. I heard a lot about that,” said Elaina Erola, who’s a big fan of actress Regina Hall and director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Movie-goers walk toward Broadway Cinema’s entrance on Thursday afternoon, the first local showing of “One Battle After Another.” The theater that day had a few dozen people watching the film. (Sage Alexander/The Times-Standard)Outside of spotting local sights, people said they appreciated how director Anderson captured Humboldt County.
“A lot of film and TV productions that come up here are kind of looking for what I think of as a fantasy version of Humboldt, where it’s always sunny and all the characters are the children of quirky old hippies who live in fancy, hand-built houses in the woods and smoke weed and walk a short distance to the river. And what was striking about the interaction I had, looking for locations for this film, was that they seemed to want something that felt more authentic to the area,” said Jon Olson, who helped scout locations for the film.
One lighting test, for example, sought a typical cloudy day, rather than waiting for sun.
“There was sort of an emphasis on (locations) being weathered, a little rundown, having character,” he said.
Anderson studied Eureka High’s real prom ahead of shooting. Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commissioner Cassandra Hesseltine said Friday.
Teyana Taylor runs in a scene from “One Battle After Another.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)“I remember when I got the call like, ‘Hey, we’re coming out of town, we’re going to go to the prom.’ And I was like, what?” she said, laughing.
Anderson scouted the high school’s old gym, but Hesseltine said it was unknown if he’d wanted to use the school’s new gym as well. It was a big ask, she said, during the school year and rebuilding the gym, but she said, “they rose to the occasion.”
She said observing the real-life school dance served to inspire the school dance setting in the film.
“(Paul Thomas Anderson) likes to really tell stories,” she said. “Even though as crazy and as bigger than life they seem, he still wants to get at those kinds of details.”
Leonardo DiCaprio acts in a scene from “One Battle After Another.” The blockbuster movie was partially filmed in Humboldt County. Eureka helped inspire Di Caprio’s character. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)Eureka also inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, an aging stoner dad who smokes weed before a parent-teacher conference at Eureka High.
In a recent interview with letterboxed, Di Caprio described a “hip-neck” culture, a combination of hippie and redneck up north as “a little mix of “don’t tread on me”, “get off of my property”, but mixed with radical sort of woke ideas simultaneously. It’s a culture that—I understood Bob when we got into Eureka,” he told letterboxed.
The film, contemporary but loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland” set in 1984, is a modern exploration of the federal government’s crackdown on North Coast communities — rather than DEA agents raiding for cannabis in Vineland, “One Battle After Another” explores the real-world infusion of massive federal resources toward immigration enforcement.
The fictionalized Eureka is a sanctuary city for immigrants, much to the chagrin of a white supremacist society, with revolutionaries operating a “Latino Harriet Tubman” underground railroad, amid an immigration raid targeting businesses including Arcata’s Raliberto’s.
After seeing it, Markus Samano said he’d been hyped about it since it was filmed — and said he enjoyed watching a high-caliber filmed shot down the street.
Teyana Taylor, left, and Sean Penn are shown in a scene from “One Battle After Another.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)“I think people in Humboldt are really going to enjoy seeing the Easter eggs and finding things out. I love that coming to see the movie felt like a community event,” said Samano.
As of Friday, Rotten Tomatoes has aggregated a 97% rating from film critics and 90% from the general public. Speculation is abound for Oscar Nominations for the film, with around a $130 million budget that brought an estimated $3 million to the local economy, according to the film commission’s estimations.
Multiple people encouraged others to watch the film in person. Broadway Cinema and Arcata’s Minor Theater have showtimes until Thursday, Oct. 2.
“One Battle After Another” is showing at the Broadway Cinema in Eureka. The movie was partially filmed in Humboldt County last year. Local residents and places can be spotted in the film. (Ruth Schneider/The Times-Standard)Sage Alexander can be reached at 707-441-0504
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