Four months of preparation.

That’s how long it took for a scene in “The Hangover Part III” that lasts less than two minutes.

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For the crew, it’s known as the “Giraffe Highway” scene. Zack Galifianakis buys a giraffe and tows it in a trailer behind his car down the freeway. The impending disaster is that the giraffe is too tall for one of the overpasses. What happens next is a little gory.

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Don’t worry, no animals were harmed in the making of this movie, though PETA was not happy with it. The crew did film a giraffe, separately, and added it into the scene later.

It was the first time a film crew had closed a highway in Orange County, said Gregory Alpert, a veteran Los Angeles-based location manager for “The Hangover Part III” as well as another movie that used Orange County, “Frost/Nixon.” The months of prep work were needed to figure out the logistics and coordinate with multiple transportation agencies and the cities of Costa Mesa, Irvine and Newport Beach, where the stretch of highway that had to be shut down over a weekend is located.

The film’s director, Todd Phillips, wanted something with “the feel of the 405,” Alpert said.

“There are a handful of freeways that you can control in the greater Southern California area,” Alpert said. “You would not be able to shut down the 405 in two directions for two days.”

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They couldn’t find the right look, Alpert said, until the Caltrans staff suggested the 73.

The stretch is just a couple miles long, and yes, the cars in the scene are going at full speed. Southbound interchanges with I-405 and the 55 leading onto the 73 were closed.

“It was a massive undertaking,” Alpert said. “(There were) over 30 CHP officers that were employed over those two days. … Every time before we would drive, we would have a lead vehicle to make sure, God forbid, no one got on to the freeway.”

“I think it works really well, and you also see a plane taking off from John Wayne Airport,” Alpert said. (You also see signs for the Campus Drive and MacArthur Boulevard exits.) “You immediately know you’re in Southern California.”

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