Oak Alley Plantation in Popular Culture
Oak Alley Plantation was used as a location in the following feature films, television shows, and other media:
- Midnight Bayou (2009)
- Primary Colors (1998)
- Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
- The Long, Hot Summer (1985) re-make of 1958 movie
- Dixie: Changing Habits
- The Night Rider (1978)
- Days of our Lives, soap opera, used the plantation as a location for a wedding scene.
- Ghost Hunters investigated the plantation in Season 4, Episode 19.
- Ace of Cakes showed a groom's cake replica of the house and the oak alley.
- Beyoncé's "Déjà Vu" music video and "B'Day" CD insert photos filmed/shot in June 2006.
- The Young and the Restless soap opera, used the location for the characters Sharon Newman and Adam Newman to rekindle their relationship.
- The Sims video-game features an image of the Oak Alley Plantation pathway on the "Travellin' Joe's Expresso Bar" prop, which was included in The Sims Unleashed.
- Stay Alive (2006)
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Famous quotes containing the words oak, alley, plantation, popular and/or culture:
“Where he swings in the wind and rain,
In the sun and in the snow,
Without pleasure, without pain,
On the dead oak tree bough.”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“Holly: Oh, Brad, I’d do my act in clown alley or the horse stop for you. I’d do anything if it was just for you.
Brad: Pigeon, look. Out under the sky you know how I feel about you. But under the Big Top one performer’s just like another to me.”
—Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)