I think I've mentioned before how jarring it is to be watching a movie set in Los Angeles where the geography is all out of whack. In Adam Sandler's "Punch Drunk Love," for example, he's hanging out at the Sunset Blvd. shopping center with the Virgin Megastore and Wolfgang Puck's...but when he leaves the center, he's shown driving out of the Kaiser Permanente hospital complex here in Los Feliz.
So the L.A. Times reports that the new flick "The Italian Job" is probably the most realistic take on Los Angeles geography in a long time. The paper points out that by "taking in the Hollywood Hills, the Argyle Hotel, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood & Highland complex before racing through downtown on the way to Union Station, the film pays surprisingly strong attention to keeping the actual geography of Los Angeles intact and realistic during the drive."
The story also points out Rob Cohen's major blunder in "The Fast and the Furious": The flick shows cars speeding around the hills of Silver Lake, including insanely steep Micheltorina Blvd. Suddenly, they turn the corner at Glendale Blvd....and they're at the San Pedro docks! Huh?
Cohen admits it's impossible in real L.A., but in the fast-cut world of the movies, anything's possible.
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