Misconception of Filming Location

I always see references to the movie moslty being filmed in Century City, a funky shopping mall kind of place at the edge of Beverly Hills, but the truth is that much of the movie was filmed at two locations in Southern California...Century City and the Social Sciences buildings at the University of California, Irvine. Everything still looks pretty much the same around Century City, but the campus site is massively different...the buildings are still there and occupied, though.

Oddly enough, I've worked at both places...Century City for about a month and UCI long enough for Caesar to have been born and grown up to the age he was when the movie was set.

There's a photo of the Social Sciences building used at the beginning of Conquest taken from almost the same angle on my Prius website...it's oddly familiar:

www.geocities.com/priusjames

I think the same architect designed both sites, which are located about 45 miles apart in Southern California. I love the buildings, and I have neat architect's oroginal watercolor renderings from the pre-build design phase of the project!